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Editor
Kerry Drohan
978-646-3901
Boston: 617-929-3089
drohan@globe.com
Assistant editor
Marcia Dick
978-646-3929
m_dick@globe.com
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Kathy McCabe
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Thursday's stories
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Coffee in hand,
song in his heart
It's lunchtime at the Starbucks in Newburyport's Market Square, and Tenor Neal Ferreira offers up a sublime sample of the current Boston Lyric Opera production in between performing more earthbound duties behind the counter. He has worked at Starbucks for four years this week, but now he can say of his singing career, "it feels like things are really taking off." (By Joel Brown, Boston Globe)

Proposed ordinance would require landlords to evict ‘nuisance’ tenants
Landlords in Lynn would be subject to a local fine if they failed to seek the removal of nuisance tenants under a proposed ordinance that is drawing mixed reactions in the city. (By John Laidler, Boston Globe)
Hamilton negotiating contract
with new town manager
Michael Lombardo, Hamilton’s choice to be its first town manager, says one of his strengths is helping people reach consensus during transition. (By David Rattigan, Boston Globe)
Mayors seek power to design insurance plans outside of union negotiations
Area mayors and city managers are participating in a renewed push to provide cities and towns greater ability to contain their spiraling health care costs. (By John Laidler, Globe Correspondent)
For St. Mary’s of Lynn girls skaters,
three times a hard-fought charm
Courtney White, like the rest of her jubilant teammates on the St. Mary’s of Lynn girls’ hockey team, soaked in the moment.
- Globe North Sports Mass. high school state hockey finals, as seen from the north (Boston Globe)
- Globe North High School Hockey Ice chips (Boston Globe)

- Globe North People Pro-am tennis to aid student (Boston Globe)
- Globe North News briefs Vote for your favorite tree (Boston Globe)
- Globe North News briefs Silberstein joins state Senate race (Boston Globe)
- Phillips Andover hosts archeology commemoration (By Gail Waterhouse, Globe Correspondent)
- Knitting groups foster camaraderie and creativity (By Taryn Plumb, Globe Correspondent)
- Parker River wildlife refuge has six summer job openings for youths (Boston Globe)
- Globe North Sports Chasing stray ball touched off track career for Hamilton-Wenham’s Jackson MacDonald (By Sapna Pathak, Globe Correspondent)
- Globe North Best bets (Boston Globe)

Sunday's stories
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Got Wi-Fi?
Salem launched the area's first open-access municipal Wi-Fi in 2004 but approximately two years later, it was dead. Along the same timeline, some analysts noted that the highly anticipated free public Wi-Fi wave that was to have swept across cities and towns nationwide also fizzled, posing the question: It's 2010. Do you know where your free municipal Wi-Fi is? (By Katheleen Conti, Boston Globe)
- Stimulus funds and UMass to help give more Lowell residents Internet access (By Katheleen Conti, Globe Staff)

Gloucester charter school moves forward with student lottery
Two months after an inspector general’s report found that State Education Secretary Paul Reville had intervened to have the Gloucester Community Arts Charter approved last year, the fledgling charter school is moving forward to open in September and will hold a lottery tomorrow to select its first class. (By Steven Rosenberg, Globe Staff)
North Shore Community College gets $3.6m energy efficiency lift
North Shore Community College’s buildings will be greener and its fuel costs lower as a result of a $3.6 million project to make its Danvers and Lynn campuses more energy-efficient. (By John Laidler, Globe Correspondent)
Software firm with Middleton branch wins best US employer title
With unemployment rising in Massachusetts to 9.5 percent and 329,000 people out of work, it’s not uncommon for companies that are hiring to demand more while paying less. (By Steven Rosenberg, Boston Globe)

- Globe North Community briefing In Andover, Bancroft stays close (Boston Globe)
- Globe North Community briefing Burlington seniors hear from candidates (Boston Globe)
- Who Taught YOU to drive? Of booze wars, odometer-spinning, and other reader alerts (By Peter DeMarco, Boston Globe)
- Despite Malden ordinance, few locals among high school construction workers (Boston Globe)
- Common Cause Massachusetts rates communities’ websites (Boston Globe)
- WINTHROP Winthrop receives sewer assessment refund from MWRA (By John Laidler, Globe Correspondent)
- Globe North Arts Love stories (By Wendy Killeen, Boston Globe)
- Globe North Dining Out Comfort and food amid rare treasures (Boston Globe)
- Globe North High School Basketball Salem’s Antonio Reyes already wants to get back to the Garden (By Jason Mastrodonato, Boston Globe)
- Globe North High School Basketball Courtside chatter (Boston Globe)
- Globe North Sports Notebook Lindmark ends stellar career (By John Vellante, Boston Globe)
- Globe North best bets (Boston Globe)








