Housing, retail plan moves forward for St. Joseph's site

A former Salem mother faces charges she denied her son medication and cancelled doctor’s appointments to treat his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

An escaped prisoner is back in jail, along with two people who allegedly helped him flee from Salem Superior Court on June 25.

The state Department of Public Health  this week announced four additional cases of salmonella in Massachusetts, including one involving a 41-year-old man from Essex County.

Police have completed an investigation into Bruce Guy’s actions during his tenure as the school business manager.

In recent weeks, Salem’s downtown landscape has shifted. New shops have cropped up, while others have moved on to new spaces.

The Salem Common over the years has been tread upon by Colonial soldiers, painted by artists and, as a National Register of Historic Places site, visited by people from all over the world.

A Washington Square home received an unpleasant surprise last weekend when a car crash ended with a pickup truck rolling onto their lawn.

Fourth of July doesn’t have to mean fighting your way through the crowd at the fireworks to claim space for your lawn chair. For those who crave a change this year, here are the Salem Gazette’s top picks for celebrating our country’s 232nd birthday.

Superintendent Dr. William Cameron has identified priorities for funding, should any become available in the next few months to reverse layoffs and other cuts.

As a young boy, pilot John Singleton indulged his fascination for flight by collecting photos of astronauts and assembling model planes.

People are attracted to flying for different reasons. Some are free-spirited romantics who like the idea of soaring above ground, the world at their feet and the freedom to go wherever their heart leads them. (Due to technical difficulties, a video taken during the flight is not immediately available. Please check back next week.)

When a fire swept through The Art Corner, Wendy Snow-Lang’s framing shop and gallery space, the artist’s Zen-like reaction was to go home and fix herself a drink.

Ed Berman had no idea of the controversy that would follow when he volunteered to produce a line of costume blood to raise money for the city of Salem. (TO WATCH THE VIDEO, OPEN THIS ARTICLE.)

Salem is getting closer to building a new parking garage, with the House of Representatives earmarking millions for the city, but obstacles remain for the long-awaited project.

HealthLink members and supporters gathered at the Marblehead home of Jody and Rick Howard June 12 to discuss the current status of the efforts of current owner Dominion to reduce emissions from the Salem power plant, which has long been a focus of the group’s efforts.

When troops arrived ahead of schedule at Hanscom Air Force Base Sunday morning, friends, family and appreciative neighbors had to scramble to finish decorating and get to the Newburyport Armory in time for the arrival of the 182nd Engineer Company, Massachusetts Army National Guard.

Half of the undergraduates enrolled at Salem State College will be living on campus in 10 years, if all goes according to the plan announced this week.

A small piece of Salem’s bustling seaport history is being brought back to life down on Derby Wharf. After more than a year of construction holdups, the Pedrick Store House, an eighteenth-century wooden building that once stood on Tucker’s Wharf in Marblehead, has finally claimed its new permanent space beside the Friendship.

A boiler part that exploded and killed three employees at the Dominion Energy New England plant in Salem last November had not been inspected for the past nine years, according to officials at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.