Public safety

The town has declared a snow emergency due to stormy weather headed this way. The snow emergency runs Tuesday from 12:01 a.m to 7 a.m. "This will allow for the streets to be cleared of any snow and the cleanup of existing snow and ice," according to an email from the town. "It will be illegal to park any vehicle including boats and trailers on any public way during the snow emergency. Any vehicle, boat or trailer that is not off the public way between midnight tonight and 7 a.m. will be subject to being ticketed and towed." The email goes on to read: "If your vehicle is towed during a snow emergency, you should call the Marblehead Police Department at 781-631-1212 to confirm the location of your vehicle. All vehicles are towed to the designated town tow lot at the Transfer S...

Marblehead Town Administrator Thatcher Kezer will recommend that the Select Board deem a Pickwick Road dog dangerous, he said in a public hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 15. Marblehead Animal Control Officer Betsy Cruger petitioned the Select Board to schedule the dangerous dog hearing following two attacks involving Nala, a 2-year-old pit-bull mix owned by Gina Rushton of 45 Pickwick Road, on Dec. 3 and Jan. 10. Lawyer Jeremy Cohen pleads the case of resident Gina Rushton to Town Administrator Thatcher Kezer during a dangerous dog hearing on Feb. 15. CURRENT PHOTO / WILLIAM J. DOWD Cruger told Kezer that the first incident involved Chloe, owned by Rushton’s neighbor, Robert Barone. Barone, who intervened because his dog’s life was in peril, sustained a bite wound to his ind...