Over the past week, Wrenn, 37, owner of Sully's Brand T-Shirts, has sold more than 3,000 of the shirts, in Boston Marathon colors of yellow and blue, earning $50,000 for The One Fund:
Peabody Shirt Company Donates to One Fund.
Memorabilia gets Salem Man Top Prize
Former Salem Police Officer Nelson Dionne was a co-recipient of Historic New England's 2013 Prize for Collecting Works on Paper. Dionne saved an extensive collection of Salem memorabilia collected during his years of walking a beat:
Summer Learning in Salem
Summer is becoming a time for special programs and enrichment efforts targeting children with special needs, limited English or students from low-income families. This summer, more than 700 Salem children will attend some form of summer school:
Plastic Bags for Shoppers: Keep or to Ban?
Should the Commonwealth take away the plastic shopping bag? A sampling of North Shore residents reveals a general reaction to the idea:
Councilors voted to recommend that Mayor Kim Driscoll appoint enough people to fill the Board of Health to its full complement of seven people.
No Medicinal Marijuana For 1 Year in Danvers
Danvers selectmen favor a one-year moratorium on the location of medical marijuana dispensaries in town until the state Department of Public Health formulates its regulations on them.
Mayor Wants More Cable Companies to Come to Peabody
Residents have asked Mayor Bettencourt “on an almost daily basis why Peabody is not home to any alternative providers of cable TV, high-speed Internet and telephone service.”
$100K Sought for Lynch Park Carriage House
Volunteers have been working for the past 11 years to turn the Lynch Park Carriage House into a community center. Beverly Mayor Bill Scanlon wants to take the project into a higher gear, and has therefore requested the city council approve $100,000 of funding to be used for it.
http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1121360377/-100K-sought-for-carriage-house
Salem Taking Action to Create an Art-Filled Downtown
“Public art is one of those things that has been a missing ingredient in Salem,” Mayor Kim Driscoll said in a meeting which included alot of local artists. Consultants from St. Louis hired through a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help Salem take the first steps toward creating a lively, art-filled downtown.