Legendary businessman and philanthropist David Solimine Sr. celebrated his 90th birthday on August 30, 2025. There were multiple parties to honor the popular lifelong Lynn resident. In the photo above, Mr. Solimine is pictured with family, friends, and colleagues from the Solimine Funeral Home at a birthday dinner at Rossetti’s Restaurant. In the photo, below, Mr. Solimine joins a celebratory photo with SFH directors (from left) Christina Dusablon, Lisa Smith, Leah Cornoyer, Shannon Murphy,...| Lynn Journal
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Lynn English football star Knowlton-Simard is attracting attention from college programs| Lynn Journal
It pays to go green. As a municipality with the state’s Green Community designation, the City is eligible to apply for grants that finance additional energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. In the most recent round of grant funding by the Department of Energy Resources Green Communities Division, Lynn received almost $250,000 for three projects in school buildings. | Lynn Journal
The proposal by State Senator Julian Cyr to revive happy hours — which have been outlawed in Massachusetts since the 1980s — is a terrible idea that will have only one guaranteed consequence: More motorists will be driving under the influence, endangering the lives of everybody who is on the roads across our state.| Lynn Journal
Anita was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia on March 4, 1925. She was the ninth and youngest child of Josephine (Donahue) and Thomas Bigley. Shortly after her birth the family relocated to Everett, MA where she was raised and educated. She was a 1943 graduate of Everett High School. She was employed as a secretary in Boston until she met and married the love of her life, the late Joseph W. Hughes. Anita and Joe soon moved to Lynn, MA where they raised their family of four children. She spent the...| Lynn Journal