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‘Emotional and bittersweet’: Celtics honor Coyne at Garden Friday night

Leigh BlanderOctober 24, 2026

On Friday night, the Boston Celtics honored the late Owen Coyne as a Hero Among Us. The Coyne family stands at center court at Friday night's Celtics home opener. Owen Coyne, 17, who died ea...

Marblehead Public Schools

Brown School Monster Mash a scary success

Leigh BlanderOctober 23, 2026

Sports

Coyne to be honored at Celtics Friday night

Leigh BlanderOctober 23, 2026

Art

Haunting hobby: Local architect to reveal latest Halloween creation

Luca TedescoOctober 21, 2026

Art

CURRENT EVENTS: Marblehead’s best bets coming up

Leigh BlanderOctober 21, 2026

Town news

Brown School Monster Mash a scary success

October 23, 2026

Hundreds of young families packed the Brown School’s annual Monster Mash celebration Friday evening to celebrate Halloween. The Current stopped by to check out this year’s costumes and activities, including a very popular dunk tank! Parts of the school were transformed into a ...

5,700 letters, one goal: Supporting Marblehead seniors

October 21, 2026

Town issues paving notice through Oct. 24

October 21, 2026

MHS HEADLIGHT: Tribute to Owen Coyne

October 20, 2026

Marblehead author launches online community to help ideas take shape

October 20, 2026

Historic perambulation planned for downtown Marblehead

October 19, 2026

Schools look to stem enrollment losses; review MCAS results

October 19, 2026

Opinion

Columns

FOOD 101: It’s apples & cider season

Linda BassettOctober 21, 2026

Apple picking is always a highly anticipated autumn Saturday to revel in crisp air and sapphire skies. Pack up the kids and head north to farm country to wander an orchard. Breathe the spicy breeze while filling a big basket with apples and letting the little ones run through fie...

Current Editorials

EDITORIAL: Warwick worries

October 20, 2026

Columns

COLUMN: Halloween, assembled

October 20, 2026

LETTERS

LETTER: ‘Marblehead can do better’

October 19, 2026

LETTERS

LETTER: Why I’m voting ‘no’ on Question 3

October 19, 2026

LETTERS

LETTER: How to honor Owen

October 19, 2026

Columns

Y shines a (blue) light on growing need for after-school care

October 19, 2026

Sports

Magicians fall to Peabody Tanners at Piper

Luca TedescoOctober 24, 2026

The Magicians (2-4, 1-1) fell to the red hot Peabody Tanners (6-1, 2-1), 35-14, at Piper Field on Friday night. “We’re just inventing new ways to beat ourselves,” said Marblehead head coach Jim Rudloff. “We just have to clean up a lot of our own mess and just continue to try t...

Sports

Coyne to be honored at Celtics Friday night

October 23, 2026

Sports

MHS boys soccer team tests the D-2 defending state champs, only to come up just short

October 21, 2026

Sports

Magicians Notebook: Boys, girls cross-country teams complete regular seasons with two wins

October 21, 2026

Sports

Reynolds Field plans drop ice rink, shift to street hockey

October 21, 2026

Sports

Magicians triumph in homecoming, 28-14, over Panthers

October 17, 2026

Sports

Magicians outlast three more opponents to extend winning streak to five games

October 16, 2026

From the Community

Nonprofit corner

PAWS & Claws: Meet Ezra

Leigh BlanderSeptember 15, 2026

Domestic Medium HairSize: MediumAge: AdultSex: Male Ezra is a medium- hair kitty. His smoke coloring is beautiful. This is what the volunteers have to say about him: “Ezra is so cuddly and friendly. Just a really nice kitty to all cats and people. He loves human contact and looks for you to pe...