BEVERLY — A developer has withdrawn a controversial plan to build apartments on top of the MBTA parking garage. Beverly Planning Director Darlene Wynne said Barnat Development requested a withdrawal of its special permit application on Tuesday, hours before the Planning Board was scheduled to hold a public hearing on the matter at City Hall. Barnat asked for a “withdrawal without prejudice,” meaning that it could reapply for the same project in the future, Wynne said. The plan to build apartments on top of the garage was opposed by Mayor Mike Cahill and drew negative comments from residents last week during a presentation by Barnat Development President Sarah Barnat at a Ward 2 Civic Association meeting. Cahill has said the plan does not meet the city’s zoning requirements because it does not include any parking. Barnat had proposed the construction of 70 apartments in three stories on top of the MBTA parking garage on Rantoul Street, across from the Beverly train depot. The company...

National Women's Day is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an internal passport, known as a passbook, that served to maintain population segregation, control urbanisation, and manage migrant labour during the apartheid era.[1] The first National Women's Day was celebrated on 9 August 1995.[2] In 2006, a reenactment of the march was staged for its 50th anniversary, with many of the 1956 march veterans. National Women's Day.jpg Women in Lesotho at a National Women's Day protest against violence against women at the National University of Lesotho Observed by South Africa Date 9 August Next time 9 August 2023 Frequency Annual

LYNN — Student and youth athletes will soon be benefiting from a project involving the addition of a new sports complex to the fields behind Lynn Tech. The project, currently set to begin this spring, is a part of the city’s mission to use American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money on renovating six of Lynn’s parks. The layout of the park will include two soccer and football fields, a baseball field, a softball field, renovations to the existing skate park, spectator seating, and a proposed building. Ward Six Councilor Fred Hogan said that designers are evaluating three different concepts, though each concept will include all of the same assets. The current fields have been in need of major upgrades, and Hogan said he is thrilled to be able to help make that happen. “It’s really exciting for us, especially in Ward Six,” Hogan said. “That was one of the targets that I had early on is making that field better.” With the only turf field in the City located at Manning Field, Hogan said th...

Ron DeSantis is one of the most prominent Republican leaders skipping this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Perhaps the Florida governor is choosing instead to prepare for his upcoming visits to key primary states as part of an unofficial tour for his new book, which has the depressingly generic title “The Courage to Be Free.” While DeSantis’ absence from CPAC has made headlines, what’s absent from his book is far more telling. For a man who likes to pick his fights, the ones DeSantis avoids in his book are signposts for Democrats looking for weaknesses. The least surprising omissions are the ones even DeSantis would probably recognize as politically inconvenient. For example, though he rails against elites helping elites, he doesn’t mention that he’s appointed some 250 donors to political posts. He does not repeat his tweet that “voting is a privilege,” not a right — a tweet he claims he didn’t write. He leaves out his early support for Covid vaccines — Florida’s mil...

LAFAYETTE – Tyler Halstead and Grant Knipp combined for five of Campbell’s 11 hits while Cade Kuehler and Ty Cummings combined to fan 15 batters as the Fighting Camels claimed a 5-2 win over the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns in the opening game of a three-game series on Friday at M.L. “Tigue” Moore Field at Russo Park. The series between the 2022 NCAA Regional participants resumes on Saturday in a 2 p.m. contest. Louisiana (6-3) will send right-hander Tommy Ray (1-0, 0.00 ERA) to the mound with Campbell (7-1) countering with right-hander Chance Daquila (2-0, 5.40 ERA) .