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(Essex National Heritage Area)Stanley Slysz of Salem won the Experiencing the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway category in the 2011 Essex National Heritage Area Photo Contest with this photo of the lighthouse on Winter Island at sunrise.Two Salem residents win Essex photo contest
Last year Stanley Slysz woke up around 4:30 a.m. one August morning, packed his photography gear and headed to Winter Island to catch the sunrise illuminate the island’s lighthouse. Boston Globe, 12/1/11
(Justin A. Rice for Boston.com)The new 195,000-square-foot courthouse is named after MIchael Ruane, a Salem state representative who died in 2006 after three decades in the State House. Ruane Judicial Center opens
Alba Nunez never thought she’d see the day when the new $109 million J. Michael Ruane Judicial Center in Salem opened its doors.
Boston Globe, 11/22/11
- Photo gallery Take a virtual tour of the new court complex
(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)“We’re pretty happy with where we are. In fact, we’re incredibly gratified,” said Dan Monroe, executive director of the Peabody Essex Museum.Peabody Essex vaults to top tier of museums
Peabody Essex Musuem has raised $550 million - with plans to bring in $100 million more - in a campaign that is the biggest ever for any museum in Massachusetts. Boston Globe, 11/7/11
(Lisa Poole for The Boston Globe)Re-enactors portraying the British Army performed drills during a two-day living history event in Salem. Reenactors stage a failed British maneuver
The Redcoats came to Salem a few days ago, and standing beside a Pickering Wharf building, one of them was trying to beat the heat with a Diet Coke. Boston Globe, 6/29/11
- Photo gallery The British are here!
New outdoor sculpture installations
Four contemporary sculptures by Massachusetts artist Rob Lorenson were installed yesterday on Essex and Front streets. They'll be on display until early November. Dsstination Salem, 6/14/11
(Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times)Lorelei Stathopoulos is concerned Salem will lose its "quaint reputation."
Do too many psychics spoil the brew?
Like any good psychic, Barbara Szafranski claims she foresaw the problems coming. Her prophecy came in 2007, as the City Council was easing its restrictions on the number of psychics allowed to practice in Salem. The New York Times, 5/31/11
(Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe )With real estate agent Janet Howcroft looking on, Salem witch Lori Bruno performs a ceremony on behalf of prospective buyers to cleanse negative forces from a foreclosed Peabody home. Bless this house
With the real estate industry stuck in doldrums, it's a boom market for links to a higher power -- whether feng shui, witches, psychics, or saints. Boston Globe, 5/11/11
- Photo gallery Salem witch Lori Bruno performs cleansing rituals
(Lisa Poole for The Boston Globe)Claire Fitzgerald of Somerville (right) looked at pastime puzzles before an informal talk at the athenaeum on Dickens-themed jigsaw puzzles.Gathering celebrates a mutual friend, Dickens
Mostly, it’s just the best of times. When the Dickens Fellowship North of Boston branch gets together at the Salem Athenaeum each month, the talk often turns to David Copperfield or Miss Havisham, Oliver Twist or Tiny Tim, the indelible characters created by one of the most beloved novelists of the English language. Boston Globe, 4/28/11
Home Depot volunteers Matthew Maneri (left) and Adem Mehmeti work on the third floor of Plummer Home for Boys.
Home for boys gets makeover
The Plummer Home for Boys on Winter Island in Salem has gotten a makeover, thanks to the Home Depot Foundation. Boston Globe, 4/28/11
(Lisa Poole for The Boston Globe)Steve Zimmerman and his wife, Larissa Doronina, walk along the pedestrian mall on Essex Street in Salem with 21-month-old Alex. Communities look for safe pedestrian passages
As the days get longer and the sun gets warmer, residents north of Boston are lacing up their sneakers and looking for safe, pleasant places to walk. Boston Globe, 4/13/11
- Related City walking scores vary widely
- Other coverage Architect: Open pedestrian mall to cars, parking
(Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff) Marianne Mueller in her exhibit "Any House is a Home" at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem.
Swiss artist links museum to the city of Salem
Artist Marianne Mueller spent hours and hours in the Peabody Essex Museum’s storage areas, where she chose nearly 300 of the collection’s scruffier and more ignored objects for her contemporary art installation “Any House Is a Home.’’ Boston Globe, 4/4/11
- Photo gallery Take a tour of the exhibit
To ward off a deluge, a trickle of cash
Eighteen months ago, the state issued a sweeping review of its coastal sea walls, estimating that they needed $600 million in repairs, including about $160 million in communities north of Boston. Boston Globe, 4/3/11
- Interactive map The state of sea walls in Salem
- Explainer How sea walls erode a beach
(Yoon S. Byun/ Globe Staff)Salem officials locked the gates of the Howard Street Cemetery last fall, saying the historic site needed to be protected and preserved. Cemetery’s neighbors want access restored
If the dead could talk, local residents and officials say, they would be horrified at competing plans for the Howard Street Cemetery. Boston Globe, 3/30/11
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Members of Asperger's Are Us, (from left) Noah Britton, Jack Hanke, Michael Ingemi and Ethan Finlan (seated).
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(Mark Wilson for The Boston Globe)Black history in Salem
Many people recognize Salem as a historical town known as Witch City, but some may not realize it played an integral role in black history from the 17th century on. Above, storyteller Merrill Kohlhofer in front of Hamilton Hall.
Boston Globe, 3/25/11
(Lisa Poole for The Boston Globe)Dineen Ludwig, also known as "The Eastern Massachusetts rubber girl," performs in Lydia's Carnival Sideshow at Museum Place Mall. Step right this way for thrills, chills, oddities
The barefoot girl with the pink-and-purple hair steps in, drops, and crunches herself into the basket. Then come the swords. Six of them — pierced straight down, diagonally, horizontally.
Boston Globe, 3/10/11
- Photo gallery See feats performed in in the carnival show
Witches vs. Sheen
Almost 100 people showed up to Crow Haven Corner on Essex Street in Salem yesterday to see a group of nine witches and warlocks have a “magical intervention’’ for Charlie Sheen, who they say has inappropriately referred to himself as a warlock in interviews. Boston Globe, 3/7/11