http://www.salemnews.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:19:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001917.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001917.html SALEM and mdash; A Harbor Street man charged with twice running over the foot of a man who was trying to detain him for police was given a 10 p.m. curfew and ordered by a judge to stay 100 yards away from the man and his family while the case is pending. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:18:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001819.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001819.html MARBLEHEAD and mdash; A fender bender earlier this month has landed The Landing Restaurant right in the soup. The selectmen have summoned the popular eatery's management to a hearing on Dec. 9, following a Nov. 9 incident where police believe a customer, Donald Mark Felt of Salem, was "overserved," resulting in an auto accident later that afternoon. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:18:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001846.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001846.html SALEM and mdash; A Salem District Court judge is threatening to release a man charged with sexually assaulting two teenage girls unless prosecutors have either obtained an indictment against him or are ready for a probable-cause hearing in three weeks. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:17:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001742.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001742.html HAMILTON and mdash; Polls are open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. today as voters weigh replacement of the heating system at Cutler School. The town would have to exceed its normal borrowing limits under Proposition 21â and Ntilde;2 to pay the town's $596,000 share of the $1.5 million project. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:16:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001617.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001617.html Hamilton Town Hall offices will be closed Thursday and Friday this week. In addition, some offices may be closed tomorrow. Call ahead to make sure someone will be available to help you. Trash pickup will be delayed one day this week. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:16:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001655.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001655.html PEABODY and mdash; Middle and high school students across the city will be able to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine if they return their consent forms by Monday. The city's Public Health Department and the School Department will host a vaccine clinic at Higgins Middle School during the week of Nov. 30 and at Peabody High the week of Dec. 7. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:49:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_320110516.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_320110516.html Maybe all year you’ve been meaning to send a thank-you card and never got around to it. Or maybe what someone did for you was so special, so above and beyond the call of duty, the act deserves a more public tribute.Well, here’s your chance. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:15:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001538.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001538.html IPSWICH and mdash; Town Hall offices will close at noon tomorrow and reopen Monday, Nov. 30, at 8 a.m. Thursday and Friday trash pickups will be done on Friday and Saturday, respectively. This is a recyc Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:14:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001455.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001455.html DANVERS and mdash; Town Manager Wayne Marquis earned a "commendable" rating from the selectmen for his work in fiscal 2009. "I thank the town manager for an excellent year overall," Selectman Mike Powers said at a meeting last week in which Marquis got some mixed reviews during his evaluation. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:14:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001421.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001421.html BEVERLY and mdash; The Beverly Public School system plans to offer the swine flu vaccine to students at no cost as soon as the vaccine is available. Middle school and high school students will be vaccinated during the school day. Elementary school students will be vaccinated at an after-school or weekend clinic so they can be accompanied by their parents. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:13:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001315.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001315.html BEVERLY and mdash; The new high school will come with a complicated computer infrastructure for everything from utilities to security and mdash; and now someone to manage the high-tech system. Ryal Side resident Robert Fortado started last week as the new school facility engineer for the Beverly Public School District. His job will focus on the high school, but he'll also go around to the middle and elementary schools to make sure everything is running as efficiently as possible. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:12:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001250.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328001250.html SALEM and mdash; The Licensing Board will hold a hearing next month on an alleged stick-wielding assault by a restaurant employee on a patron. The board had scheduled a hearing last night on the Nov. 8 incident at the Dodge Street Bar and amp; Grill but had to continue the proceeding due to a scheduling conflict for Lt. Andre Ouellette, the board's police investigator. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:06:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328000610.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328000610.html Ipswich Sunday Josafat Tobon, 38, of 50 Henry Ave., Lynn, was arrested at 2:27 a.m. and charged with drunken driving, driving with a suspended license, an open-container violation and failure to use care in backing, following a motor vehicle stop on Green Street. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:05:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328000521.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_328000521.html IPSWICH and mdash; If you live in an old house on a quaint street that was probably laid out not long after European settlers arrived here 375 years ago, awkward compromises at the intersection of progress and tradition are probably inevitable. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_327213202.html http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_327213202.html SWAMPSCOTT and mdash; Candidate for governor Charlie Baker of Swampscott has chosen veteran legislator Richard Tisei of Wakefield as his choice for lieutenant governor. State Sen. Tisei was elected to the House in 1984 and is one of a dwindling number of Republicans in the Senate. He has a reputation as a fiscal conservative but social liberal.