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State appoints John Keenan as Salem State president. SALEM — The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education voted unanimously on Tuesday to appoint John Keenan as 14th president of Salem State University. The vote, taken during the board's meeting at Bunker Hill Community College, confirms last month's ...

2 pot clinics eye Peabody. The directors for Wellness Connection are John Henry, a Plympton selectman; Elizabeth Jones of Middleton, the president and CEO of Everett Co-operative Bank; and Kathleen Donovan of Arlington, a longtime former school superintendent in Everett, ...

High Plain/Wood Hill handicapped ramp delayed a year. Despite a $400,000 budget for the project approved during the May Town Meeting, children with disabilities at Wood Hill Middle School and High Plain Elementary are looking at another year without access to the soccer fields during recess. "It's a darn ...

Mortar blown up by bomb squad Wednesday was 'family heirloom' that kids played with. A mortar shell found at a home on Snowberry Road Wednesday had explosive material inside. It was blown up at the leaf dump on High Plain Road by the state bomb squad. ANDOVER — The Massachusetts state bomb squad responded to 2 Snowberry ...

South Salem train station, diversity on Keenan's priority list. SALEM — John Keenan sits amid silver-clad shovels and multi-million dollar plans tacked to the wall in his Salem State University office. It's his old office. But those plans will still come in handy when he moves into his new office Aug. 1, as the ...

City GOP removes Facebook post making Holocaust comparison. GLOUCESTER — The Cape Ann Republican Committee has removed a controversial Facebook post that compared efforts to remove statues of Confederate leaders in the South to the maintenance of Auschwitz, the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland ...

Andover vigil for Charlottesville brings community solidarity. DAVID GROBER/Courtesy photo. On Sunday evening, more than 200 people showed up in Shawsheen Square in solidarity with Charlottesville counter-protesters and to hold a vigil for those injured or killed. Andover vigil for Charlottesville brings community ...

Police chiefs support Baker's detainer proposal. BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker's plan to give police the authority to detain undocumented immigrants who are wanted for serious crimes has received a boost from two of the state's largest police organizations. The Massachusetts Association of Police ...

Rainbow flag stolen from West Parish Church. Staff Photo/ Kelsey Bode An LGBTQ-friendly flag flies from the West Parish Church sign on Friday, Aug. 11. Two rainbow flags have been stolen from the church on Reservation Road this summer. Someone stole a rainbow flag from the West Parish Church on ...

Reading the Greens: Wenham CC's Scanlan wins Hornblower Seniors. Second-year Wenham Country Club member Scanlan, who retired several years ago as Clerk of the Massachusetts Senate, made up a three-stroke deficit on the final nine to tie the heavily favored John McNeil of BAGS, then defeated McNeil on the first ...