Business

The following is an interview with Corey Stein, owner of Corey Stein Films, conducted by Discover Marblehead. To learn more about the Marblehead business, call (781) 479-7774 or visit coreysteinfilms.com. Tell us about Corey Stein Films. It was during a brief high school elective class that I first held a camera and gained experience with a full editing suite. It was then that I started to learn the power of creating a story through creative image. Although I intended to focus on business in college, my passion became more focused and I gained considerable knowledge in film and video and widened my hands-on experience. Marblehead filmmaker Corey Stein COURTESY PHOTO When just starting out, I had every intention of working in the film production field for a company until I sat do...

The following is an interview with Shea Mavros, owner of Jambu Jewelry, 38 Atlantic Ave., conducted by Discover Marblehead. To learn more about the Marblehead business, email jambujewelry@gmail.com, call 781-639-9600 or visit https://jambujewelry.com/. Shea Mavros, owner of Jambu Jewelry, 38 Atlantic Ave, with her mom, Elaine. COURTESY PHOTO Tell us about Jambu Jewelry: Since 1996, Jambu Jewelry has offered an eclectic and curated collection of handcrafted designer jewelry on Atlantic Avenue in Marblehead. We have a wide variety of pieces to suit every style and personality, and they're all hand-selected to reflect the classic qualities of elegance, simplicity, and whimsy. Over the years, we've built wonderful partnerships with amazing artists from far and wide, including local des...

Mayflower Cleansers on Atlantic Avenue is closing on Friday, Jan. 20, after 87 years in business. Several dry cleaners have closed in town recently, leaving only one remaining. “I’ll miss Marblehead. The people in Marblehead are nice,” Mayflower owner David Schleri told the Marblehead Current. “It’s a sad moment.” A sign on the window at Mayflower Cleansers announces its closing. PHOTO / LEIGH BLANDER Schleri, who lives in Beverly, has owned Mayflower since 2004. He says since COVID, people don’t need dry cleaning as much. “Times have changed, especially with the pandemic. There’s remote work, Zoom meetings and an increase in casual wear. The bills keep going up and fewer people are coming in.” Scherli said he tried to get another dry cleaner to take over. “I reached out...

The following is an interview with Carolyn Pyburn of Harbor Light Inn, 58 Washington St., conducted by Discover Marblehead. To learn more about the Marblehead business, email carolyn@harborlightinn.com, call 781-631-2186 or visit harborlightinn.com.  Tell us about the Harbor Light Inn. The Harbor Light Inn is a 20-room boutique hotel located in the heart of the historic district of Marblehead. We have a dining room where we serve breakfast to our guests every morning, an outdoor pool and an intimate tavern that is open to the public. We also have a separate house that holds five furnished apartments (perfect for rentals between two weeks and three months). My parents (Peter and Suzanne Conway) opened the inn in 1986 and I moved back to town in 2015 to take over. Hospitality is in m...

Fifty Marblehead teenagers will be heading across Europe this summer on service-learning trips with the local nonprofit Stone & Compass. They’ll be volunteering at a Sicilian orphanage, planting trees in the Scottish Highlands and running a summer camp in Bulgaria. Stone & Compass interns Clara Donovan (left) and Maeve McIlroy, both MHS students, on a dairy farm in the Azores COURTESY PHOTO “The thing about Stone & Compass that I find extraordinary is that it’s built around making global connections,” said Clara Donovan, a Marblehead High School junior and Stone & Compass intern. “In all of these trips, yes, I’ve been doing service and volunteering. But the main point is I’m working with people from those areas. It’s really about partnering with them and working wit...

For many people across eastern Massachusetts over the past couple of years, the question has become less “if” you were profoundly disenchanted with what your local community newspaper under chain ownership but rather when you might get motivated to do something about it. With today’s publication of its inaugural print edition, the Marblehead Current joins the ranks of news nonprofits that have sprung up increasingly within the footprint of Gannett, formerly known as Gatehouse Media, the parent company of the Marblehead Reporter, as Gannett increasingly abandoned local reporting. One of the earliest such ventures, the online-only Bedford Citizen, was founded in June 2012 by three volunteers who had been active in their local chapter of the League of Women Voters, Meredith McCulloch, ...