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Nancy Keighley Pitino stands on a ladder to spray paint the next few words of a poem written by Colleen Michaels at Crane Beach in Ipswich. The poem encourages people to reduce their carbon footprint and save the beach from environmental damage.

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  • 5946701SN.jpg Panhandler charged with theft attempt SALEM — A man known to Salem police as an aggressive panhandler with a sob story about a broken-down car tried to notch things up by grabbing for a woman's purse yesterday morning, police said.

    May 31, 2012 1 Photo

  • Suspect ID'd, girlfriend charged in holdup BEVERLY — Beverly police have charged the girlfriend of a man suspected in a $6,000 holdup last week, saying she stalled police for hours while her boyfriend fled.
    The robbery, which police suspect was drug-related, was reported to police last Wednesday afternoon, about an hour after it occurred, prosecutor Jay Flynn told a Salem District Court judge.

    May 31, 2012

  • 5946929SN.jpg Alumni flock to honor leader of the band BEVERLY — Wow. That was some party.
    About 750 people showed up at the high school field house the other day to honor Beverly's music man, Ray Novack, who is retiring after 35 years as the high school band director.

    May 31, 2012 1 Photo

  • Man gets 5-6 years in scanner attack PEABODY — A Peabody man began serving a five-to-six-year state prison term Tuesday, a week after pleading guilty to charges that he broke a police scanner over the head of a drinking buddy during a fight nearly two years ago.

    May 31, 2012

  • 120525_SN_DLE_BFGRAD3.jpg Photo Gallery: 2012 Graduations Images of the Class of 2012 for North Shore high schools, colleges and universities. Updated throughout the graduation season.

    May 20, 2012