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  • 5496873SN.jpg Ruckus over street crossing SALEM — A new pedestrian light on Bridge Street has a city councilor fuming and police concerned.
    The light at Skerry Street — right by the Carlton School — has a yellow box called a "crosswalk warning device." Push it, and the traffic light flashes yellow and a recorded message repeats: "Cross street with caution. Vehicles may not stop."

    February 8, 2012 1 Photo

  • Vigil tonight remembers slain Peabody social worker PEABODY — Social services workers will gather in three locations across Massachusetts tonight to remember the life of Stephanie Moulton of Peabody.
    Moulton, a 25-year-old caseworker at the North Suffolk Mental Health home in Revere, was working alone, when Deshawn Chappell, a resident at the facility with a long history of both violence and mental illness, stabbed her, fled with her in her own car and left her body behind a church in Lynn, police say.

    February 8, 2012

  • 5496304SN.jpg DeFranco unabashedly liberal in Senate run SALEM — Marisa DeFranco is a proud liberal Democrat who believes in a single-payer health care system, deficit spending, diplomacy, gay rights and equal pay for equal work — and she's not afraid to say it.

    February 8, 2012 1 Photo

  • Alternative school settles in at new home at the Gables SALEM — The Salem Prep Program, an alternative school program for at-risk teens, has found a new home at The House of the Seven Gables.
    The program's 32 students are using the settlement house at 114 Derby St., where the Gables formerly ran its after-school and preschool programs. The Prep Program, which was being housed at Collins Middle School, moved in on Jan. 3.

    February 8, 2012

  • 5497245SN.jpg High school to keep interim principal another year HAMILTON-WENHAM — John Hughes, a retired educator who was hired in July as an interim principal for the high school, will stay through next year.
    Interim Superintendent Peter Gray said the district applied for and received a waiver from the state to keep Hughes at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School through the 2012-2013 year. Hughes needs a waiver to work because he is retired from the education system, having worked 40 years in the Natick Public Schools.

    February 8, 2012 1 Photo