Spurring good ideas into action
Swampscott resident Lynne Krasker Schultz has big plans for the community nonprofit SPUR after being selected as the organization’s new executive director. Krasker Schultz joined the team in early August. Founder and current Executive Director Jocelyn Cook will remain with the organization as a member of the Board of Directors and will lead development and […]
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He’s creating a buzz in Swampscott
When Joe Douillette isn’t teaching at the high school or buzzing around local government meetings to broadcast them on Swampscott Cable Access TV, he can sometimes be found in his yard with a few hundred bees surrounding him. The media arts teacher and cable TV coordinator is also an amateur beekeeper. Despite the fact that […]
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Warriors in the fight against hunger
Douglas Flores and Greg Perez may have only moved to the North Shore last year, but they are already making an impact. The Swampscott couple both work to address food insecurity locally and throughout Massachusetts, with Flores serving as chief operations officer for Project Bread and Perez as reverend at St. Stephen’s Memorial Episcopal Church […]
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Tamy-Fée Meneide
When George Floyd was murdered by a police officer on May 25, 2020, Tamy-Feé Meneide heard a call to action. Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 years in prison but activists like Meneide realized that their work is still not done. She was hired as a critical partner in diversity, equity, and […]
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Seaglass Village will offer help to the North Shore’s seniors
At the beginning of 2020, a small group of Swampscott residents got together to discuss a difficult topic: aging. The Swampscott for All Ages Committee commissioned a needs assessment to see where the town was lacking in resources for its elderly residents. A big fear of many of those residents was that as they got […]
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