Owen Coyne, No. 18, in Marblehead’s season opener Sept. 10. COURTESY PHOTO / SHARMAN POLLENDER
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Before the season, Owen Coyne told The Salem News that the football program’s culture was about being one big family, and that the players buy into “that brotherhood of always having each other’s backs.”
Owen, a Marblehead High School senior and one of three captains of this fall’s football team, died Friday, Oct. 2. His teammates chose him. He pitched and played center field in the spring, and he hoped to play football at Williams College.
“Owen brought so much joy, laughter, and light into the lives of those who knew him,” his family wrote.
If you have a student at home, counselors are at the high school from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, and students from any school in the district are welcome. The rest of this week’s news is below. It can wait a minute.
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Commissioners Mike Hull and Jean-Jacque Yarmoff worked from the same figures Sept. 29: 16 years of a charge of just over $51,000 a year comes to about $816,000. Hull saw money the department could hand the town itself; Yarmoff saw the price of admission, and the commission voted to join the state's Renewable Energy Trust Fund, adding one-twentieth of a cent to every kilowatt-hour, about $4 a year for the average home. "This is autarky," Yarmoff said of Hull's go-it-alone plan. The same night, commissioners approved a tiered winter discount, and a public hearing on both is tentatively set for 6 p.m. Oct. 14.
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The midday tide on Saturday, Sept. 26, peaked at 11.66 feet at the Boston Harbor gauge, below flood stage and short of even the low end of the forecast, and Fire Chief Jason Gilliland said he would "reserve judgment for later." The morning of Sunday, Sept. 27, delivered the verdict: at least five boats loose from their moorings, a dark green sailboat aground on the beach at Riverhead, another on its side beneath the seawall at Glover Landing and spray coming over the causeway an hour before high tide. A tree at Green Street cemetery had already come down across rows of slate headstones.
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Less than six months after voting 4-1 to advance a $3.6 million refrigerated rink, the Recreation and Parks Commission is moving away from it now that the Lynch/van Otterloo YMCA plans an indoor rink. Commissioner Shelly Bedrossian said the board wants to hear how residents would use the field and the money Larz Anderson left for recreation, a bequest reported in April at about $3.3 million. "We are not presenting, we are listening," she wrote. The town calendar now lists four community meetings: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 10 Humphrey St., and 9 a.m., noon and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7.
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Alongside our 130 members, this edition of The Independent’s newsletter is made possible by the support of Marblehead Youth Soccer Association (MYSA):
The 2026 MYSA Golf Classic is Monday, Oct. 5, at Tedesco Country Club, celebrating 50 years of soccer in Marblehead. Join us for a great day on the course while supporting the players, coaches and programs that bring our soccer community together. Foursomes and sponsorship opportunities are still available. Scan the QR code to register, sponsor or learn more.
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Standley H. Goodwin spent 51 years at Draper Laboratory working on the accelerometers that steered Apollo to the moon, and when asked whether he celebrated the landing, said, "I found it interesting." At 76, with a $120 point-and-shoot camera his sister bought him, he began photographing the headstones behind his Norman Street bungalow; the town's archive now holds about 700 images of 657 stones in volumes that carry his name. He died Monday, Sept. 28. The Marblehead Museum, which bought the Lee Mansion's Brick Kitchen with his help, holds a celebration of life from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15.
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Photographers Katie Ring and Steven Rood worked Chandler Hovey Park, Fort Sewall, Devereux Beach and Crocker Park on Saturday, Sept. 26, and found a town lined up at the water's edge with cameras and kids in tow. Two postal workers paused by the waterfront, teenagers ran from a wave at Devereux and Brown School Principal Mary Maxfield stopped for a selfie with the surf behind her.
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The annual Miles for Mary 5K steps off at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at Devereux Beach, $35 in advance or $40 on race day, in memory of Mary Park and others lost to glioblastoma. On Nov. 2 the group brings neuro-oncologist Dr. Elizabeth Gerstner to Eastern Yacht Club to describe a CAR T-cell trial in which tumors shrank rapidly in the first three patients treated. Miles for Mary has raised more than $900,000 for the research.
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Marblehead Little Theatre opens its Halloween season with Euripides' "Medea," in Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation, running Oct. 2 through Oct. 18. Jon Kinney directs, and Christopher King, Lisa Fama and Erin Pelikhov produce. Tickets are at mltlive.org.
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POLICE LOG:
A Glendale Road resident who fell for an online Costco scam in April learned that 332,250 AAdvantage miles had gone to Sephora, Lululemon and Amazon gift cards. A Clifton Heights Lane man's TD Bank account was hit for $5,400 at a New Jersey branch after a first branch refused. An officer sent to check a Dunns Lane obstruction found only natural ledge. And an Arnold Terrace resident celebrating Rosh Hashanah opened an Amazon box with "John 3:16" written on it in marker.
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COMPUTERS 101:
"Your storage is almost full" is sometimes a real warning and sometimes a scam, and either way the first question is which storage: the phone, the computer or the cloud account, each with its own limit. Theresa Milewski walks through the settings screens on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, explains why the 7.14 GB of photos on her phone take up no iCloud space and why she still deletes texted videos, and says a "cleaner" app is the one thing you probably do not need.
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Around Town
This week’s community bulletin highlights key town deadlines, meetings, programs, events and civic reminders. Click any blue item to go directly to source material, registration pages or full details.
See all 25 listings in the full bulletin on the web
Standing resources and weekly recurring events
The Recreation and Parks Commission hears residents on the future of Reynolds Field, now that it is moving away from a refrigerated outdoor rink, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, in person at 10 Humphrey St.; at 9 a.m. and noon Wednesday, Oct. 7, hybrid at 10 Humphrey St. or on Zoom; and at 7 p.m. Oct. 7 on Zoom only. Questions go to recreation@marbleheadma.gov or 781-631-3350. Read more
Town Clerk Robin A. Michaud posted early voting hours at the clerk’s office in Abbot Hall, 188 Washington St.: Saturday, Oct. 17, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from Oct. 19 through Oct. 29, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Wednesdays, Oct. 21 and Oct. 28, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; and Fridays, Oct. 23 and Oct. 30, 8:30 a.m. to noon. Call 781-631-0528. Read more
Cemetery Board of Commissioners, 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, 294 West Shore Drive; Abbot Public Library trustees, 6 p.m. Oct. 5, 235 Pleasant St., hybrid; Board of Health, 7 p.m. Oct. 5, Abbot Hall, hybrid; Harbors and Waters Board, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5, 9 Ferry Lane; Old and Historic Districts Commission, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, Abbot Hall; Water and Sewer Commission, 7 p.m. Oct. 6, 100 Tower Way; Green Marblehead Implementation Committee, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, Abbot Hall, hybrid; Planning Board, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, Abbot Hall, hybrid; and the School Committee, 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15. Read more
The Board of Health holds Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the transfer station, entrance on the Green Street access road, for Marblehead and Swampscott residents with proof of residency. Pricing runs $43 for up to 3 gallons or 6 pounds, $60 for 3 to 10 gallons or 20 pounds and $95 for 10 to 25 gallons or 50 pounds, credit card or check only. Read more
National Water Main lines sewer mains on Lucia Road, Ocean Avenue and Baldwin Road on Monday, Oct. 5; Vine and Anderson streets Tuesday, Oct. 6; Orne Street and the Doak’s Lane easement Wednesday, Oct. 7; Pond, Front and Selman streets Thursday, Oct. 8; and the Doak’s Lane easement Friday, Oct. 9, subject to change. Water main reconnections on Prospect, Commercial, Cottage and Chestnut streets continue through the week, and National Grid works on Washington, Gregory, Laurel and Doane streets through the week of Oct. 12. Read more
Abbot Public Library, the Council on Aging and the Marblehead public schools are closed Monday, Oct. 12, for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The Health Department’s leaves- and grass-only collection runs the weeks of Oct. 19, Nov. 16, Dec. 7 and Dec. 14: paper leaf bags only, no plastic, barrels or brush. Read more
Discover Marblehead and the Marblehead Museum hold the Fall Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, in the Lee Mansion garden, admission free. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 135 Lafayette St., holds its storm-postponed rummage sale the same morning, 8 a.m. to noon, with $5 stuff-a-bag from noon to 1 p.m. Read more
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church holds its nondenominational Blessing of the Animals at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, on the plaza at 135 Lafayette St., or in the parish hall if it rains. Dogs, cats, rabbits, birds and stuffed animals are welcome; live animals need an adult and a leash. The church is lit purple through October for Domestic Abuse Awareness Month. Call 781-631-4951. Read more
The midday high tide on Saturday, Sept. 26, peaked at 11.66 feet at the Boston Harbor gauge, under the 12.5-foot flood stage and short of the forecast, before the weather service raised its surf call to 15-foot breakers overnight. "You look at Crosby, you look at Market Basket, you think there's a snowstorm coming," Fire Chief Jason Gilliland said that afternoon. "Here we are Saturday. We had some wind, but not crazy winds." Read more
Storyteller Judith Black, Celtic harpist Bobbie Wayne, guitarist Dan Mozell and actors Betty Lautner and Jennifer Hurley present "We All Come From Away!" from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, at the Little Harbor Boathouse, 40 Doaks Lane, to benefit the Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network and the Beyond Bond and Legal Fund, which raises money for immigration bonds to free people held in ICE prisons in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Tickets are at bijanfundraiser.ludus.com; bring a chair. Read more
The museum’s celebration of life for Standley Goodwin, the Miles for Mary 5K, JCCNS talks and films, library programs through Oct. 16, Marblehead Arts events and the jury-in deadline, the senior center’s trips, Windborne at Me&Thee and the Old Burial Hill tours are on the web bulletin. See all
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