Lynnfield Villager

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The Southern Essex Registry of Deeds is implementing a program that seeks to “clean” property deeds containing discriminatory restrictions.

Register Eileen Duff stated in a press release that the new program seeks to “ensure that new deeds no longer contain or references exclusionary language.”

“Discriminatory language, including racial covenants in land…

READING – Michael O’Neill has been appointed as Reading Municipal Light Department’s interim general manager. 

O’Neill’s career spans more than two decades in the electric utility industry. O’Neill previously held key positions at National Grid and Eversource, and has served as the RMLD director of operations since Jan. 2024. 

“As we begin the search…

By DAN TOMASELLO

LYNNFIELD — The Select Board unanimously voted on June 23 to form two different search committees to evaluate prospective applicants for two vacant department head positions. 

Select Board Chair Phil Crawford said Town Clerk Amanda Haggstrom recently submitted her resignation. Haggstrom, who has worked for the town for the past two…

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KINGSTON, R.I. – A Lynnfield resident is among two Ph.D. students in the University of Rhode Island’s College of the Environment and Life Sciences’ interdisciplinary biological and environmental sciences graduate program who have been awarded graduate research fellowships from the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium. 

Lynnfield resident Michelle Marder and Brockton resident Kate…