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  • Borders site is next chapter for auto dealer DANVERS — Danvers-based Kelly Automotive Group is ramping up expansion plans along Route 114 in both Danvers and Peabody.
    Kelly is mulling the creation of a two-story dealership out of the vacant former Borders Books and Music store on Andover Street in Peabody. The Danvers native and the company's president, Brian Kelly, acquired the property in December.

    February 10, 2012

  • Road race issue crosses finish line SALEM — The City Council agreed last night to track and monitor Salem's many road races through creation of a master calendar.
    Salem's volume of road races, and the fact that many of them run through the same sections of the city, had come under scrutiny by the council this winter.

    February 10, 2012

  • Salem businessman offers firsthand insight on Egypt SALEM — David Williams, 55, had a good feeling when he was asked to go to Egypt as part of a team of Americans dedicated to teaching that country's new democrats just how politics works.
    Today, he's less positive about a process that has seen revolution followed by elections and then, to his shock, the prosecution of Americans and others working to assist in the creation of a stable democracy.

    February 10, 2012

  • A Salem flag-raising in Afghanistan SALEM — For Veterans Day, third-graders from the Witchcraft Heights School wrote letters to U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
    The school has done this in the past, but this time was different. This time they sent them to a soldier from Salem, U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Levesque.

    February 10, 2012

  • Body-moving case in court next month SALEM — The arraignment of two men charged with moving the body of an apparent drug overdose victim out of a controversial rooming house has been postponed to next month.
    Raymond Young, 58, of 87 Federal St., and Richard Hollett, 47, of 81/2 Herbert St., have been charged in connection with the Nov. 9 incident at Hilltop Manor, a rooming house that was being used as a "sober house" for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, according to court officials.

    February 10, 2012