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Marblehead graduates 246

Marblehead — Graduates walked onto the field to their seats awaiting being presented with their diplomas. All 246 students were dressed in black and red gowns to reflect school spirit. Some caps were decorated with the abbreviations of the college they will be attending.

This ceremony was outside on Piper Field, where family, friends, faculty, and staff all gathered in celebration of the Marblehead High School senior class. The MHS band, directed by Craig VanRemoortel, opened the ceremony playi
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Swampscott revels in its seaside status

Swampscott — The Swampscott Yacht Club will be hosting its first Marine Fair Sunday, beginning at 10 a.m.

The event, free to the public, will feature boat rides, live music, lobster rolls, artists, and more.

SYC, located in Swampscott’s municipal Fish House, was founded in 1933, and was originally built in 1896. In 1985, this building was added to the National Register of Historic Places and is the oldest active fish house in the United States and the only municipal fish house on the East Coas

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New proclamation in Rowley welcomes all, decries bigotry

ROWLEY — The town has made it official: Rowley is not putting up with hate.

Resident Danby Whitmore recently presented a “no hate here” statement to the board asking that the town of Rowley adopt an anti-discrimination stance. Whitmore asked the town to make it clear that white supremacist messaging is unwelcome.

“I think it’s important to speak up against hate in this community,” said Whitmore. “The white supremacists’ voices are being amplified across the country, and I think we need to say
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I was placed on the ground with a net over me to die: From Pol Pot's madness to downtown Ipswich

IPSWICH — Sitting inside her new tailoring shop, Tina Prum beams with the excitement, “I’m very lucky and happy to be here, let alone to say I have my own shop.”

Locals might know her as the owner of Tina’s Tailoring down on Market Street, but few are aware that she is in fact a survivor of the Cambodian Genocide in the 1970s.

Then-dictator Pol Pot attempted to re-engineer Cambodia into a classless agrarian society without modern institutions — and genocide was the result.

Pol Pot also believ
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Three new firefighters are sworn into the town of Rowley

ROWLEY — Three new firefighters were sworn in for one full-time position and two call positions by the select board on Monday evening.

Chief Mark Emery presented three individuals ― Denzel Boucher, Andrew Krajeski, and Blake Gondella ― to the select board for appointment.

Boucher graduated with an associate degree from North Shore Community College in criminal justice. For six years, he was a call firefighter in Wenham before recently being promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He currently resi
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Artist out in all weather to capture nature's "ephemeral beauty"

IPSWICH — The dunes at Crane Beach took center stage in the gallery at Hall-Haskell House recently.

Artist Brett Gamache is a plein air landscape painter from Ipswich. He received his M.F.A from the University of New Hampshire and a bachelor’s degree from MassArt.

Throughout his career, he has attended numerous artist residencies, including at the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

He exhibits his artwork at the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine.

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