Video by Jarrod Thompson
Sled hockey -- it's not your ordinary hockey game. The players -- most of them paraplegics or amputees -- are seated in bladed sleds, using their sticks to propel them. But while off the ice their mobility might be limited, on the ice, they can fly.
Local News
March 2, 2008
VIDEO: Sled Hockey
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Danvers tannery site in line for cleanup
Staff file photo The Crane River Condominiums on the Crane River in Danvers were built on a portion of a former tannery site.
The site of the former Creese and Cook Tannery has just joined a list of the nation's most complex and troubled hazardous waste sites. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday added the 17-acre site to its National Priorities List of Superf
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Bikes welcome on the T
BEVERLY -- Steve Roberge is an evangelist of the bicycle. He promotes it as a way to "save money, save gas ... reduce carbon emissions and global-warming gases and get healthy." What's more, Roberge, 51, puts his pedals where his mouth is -- he regu
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A helping hand for Peabody businesses
PEABODY -- Mayor Ted Bettencourt went in-house choosing Julie Rydzewski as the city's first "business liaison," the person responsible for making it easier to make money in Peabody. Rydzewski, 30, grew up in Peabody and has worked at City Hall -- ini
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Peabody residents consider rezoning
PEABODY -- The plan to change the zoning in the Pulaski Street industrial park is aimed at easing the plight of nearby residents fed up with the noise and traffic it brings, according to city officials. But some of those residents are holding their f
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Override passes for Linebrook Road project in Ipswich
IPSWICH -- The $3 million Linebrook Road reconstruction project will move forward after voters yesterday approved a debt-exclusion override to fund the proposal at the annual town election. There were 662 votes in favor of the project and 585 ballots
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