LETTERS

To the editor:  On Saturday,June 22, the Marblehead Counseling Center hosted a Community Wellness Day event, to commemorate the center's 55th year of providing the town with mental health and social services. Working with our board and staff, I was pleased to pull together this event with the support of a community-wide team. Our generous financial sponsors not only helped make it possible but also successful.  Our local vendors and practitioners in the well-being workplace were instrumental in providing an informational and entertaining venue for all who attended. We also had important collaborators and guidance from other nonprofits and the town of Marblehead Police, Fire, Recreation & Parks and Health Departments, without whom we could not have enjoyed such a safe a...

To the editor: I am writing to thank the Marblehead community for its support of the Cure By the Harbor, the first of what I believe will become an annual event. Cure By the Harbor was established to honor the memory of my husband Kevin who died in 2021 at 44 of an aggressive form of lung cancer that affects nonsmokers. Proceeds from this sold-out event, which generated $25,000, will fund research at Mass General focused on rare lung cancers like the one that Kevin was diagnosed with in 2018 at age 41. Prior to his diagnosis, Kevin was extremely healthy and very active, ran races, hiked mountains and coached Marblehead youth sports. In addition to raising much-needed funds we will work to eliminate the stigma often associated with lung cancer, which many assume is a "smoker's cancer...

To the editor: A big thank you to the 800+ boat owners for sharing their unique and entertaining stories and 100+ color photos, which made “Marblehead Boat Names — 3rd Edition” possible! Also, a big thank you to the Marblehead community for your support of this fun project! Shop local at Marblehead Mercantile, Shubie's, Saltwater Bookstore, Mookies and F.L. Woods, where you can find “Marblehead Boat Names-3rd Edition.” It's also available on Amazon for your convenience. For the latest book updates, please visit marbleheadboatnames.com Thank you again, and I hope you all have a wonderful summer! Sincerely, Susan (Cairns) Fischer Atlantic Ave.

To the editor: Last week, Marblehead Light Department asked town residents to curtail energy use in response to a massive spike in regional energy prices.* The problem was upstream: A generator in the regional grid (ISO-NE) which went offline sending the price for a marginal megawatt hour skyrocketing. Marblehead, along with towns throughout Massachusetts, faces the problem of how to deal with energy infrastructure that is not just old, but worsening the climate (as I write this, the current energy mix is 55% natural gas). Recently, we have seen different visions from two of our elected representatives for how to solve this and other difficult problems. Last week, Sen. Edward Markey voted against reducing fees and slashing bureaucratic red tape for the construction of new nuclear...