Public safety

Marblehead Fire Chief Jason Gilliland gave the following speech during Marblehead's 9/11 ceremony on Memorial Park on Sept. 11, 2022. Good morning, on behalf of the Marblehead Police and Fire Department, I welcome and thank all of you for joining us this morning to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.On this National Day of Remembrance, we join communities all across the nation, to honor those lives that were taken too soon. We honor the firefighters, law…

Friday, Aug. 12 9:19 a.m. Woman came into police station to discuss ongoing issues with her neighbor. She claimed that she was now being evicted due to the neighbor's "exaggerated and false reports." She was advised of her rights under M.G.L.c. 258E and the process for obtaining a harassment protection order. 3:50 p.m. An officer responded to the scene of a vehicle crash on Pleasant Streeet. 4:18 p.m. A caller on Crowninshield Road reported boats making noise. 6:42 p.m. While conducting a property check at…

Marblehead's Hamond Nature Center Marblehead Police are investigating antisemitic and racist graffiti discovered Thursday, September 8, at the Hamond Nature Center, 30 Everett Paine Blvd. The property is owned by the town's Recreation and Parks Department, which runs programming there. It's also the site of the former Camp Shore Lea. “The whole back of the building was covered with bad stuff,” said Rec and Parks Dir. Peter James. He discovered the graffiti yesterday when he went to the building to check on its new roof.…

Chief reports uptick in graffiti Marblehead police are continuing to investigate a case of racist and homophobic graffiti discovered July 26 in a vacant Marblehead Housing Authority apartment on Barnard Hawkes Court.  Barnard Hawkes Court “Somebody used a marker to go throughout the apartment and write different things. There were about a dozen markings on the wall -- homophobic and racist comments,” said Chief Dennis King. There were also comments targeting a person at the Housing Authority, King added. He declined to elaborate because the…

Harbormaster Mark Souza on Marblehead Harbor PHOTO BY LEIGH BLANDER You might imagine that Marblehead Harbormaster Mark Souza spends his August workdays on the water, enjoying the summer sun and sea breezes. Not exactly. “We don’t just drive around,” Souza said. “We’re monitoring the radios, responding to emergency calls and maintaining gangways and docks. We’re very hands on." “We’re carpenters, plumbers, firefighters, ambulance drivers,” he added. “We wear a lot of hats.” Souza manages the 1,800 moorings in Marblehead Harbor and another 1,200 on the…