SWAMPSCOTT — Historical advocates recently established a nonprofit group to accept donations for the preservation of the 293-year-old General Glover Farmhouse that’s at risk of demolition due to tentative plans to create housing.
The recently formed organization Save the Glover! plans to raise $1.5 million to $2 million to save the farmhouse that’s architecturally one of the oldest houses in Swampscott, and one of the few surviving in town that was built in the 1700s.
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A man is facing criminal charges after allegedly attacking a person in an inflatable costume of President Donald Trump in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
Jonathan Silveira, a Trump supporter from Peabody, said he was walking to an anti-Trump “No Kings” rally when he was attacked near King’s Beach. He said he didn’t make it to the protest.
“He just didn’t want me there. He kept yelling and screaming,” Silveira said. “I kept telling him to get away from me, and he kept telling people around him that he wanted to punch me in the face.”
The incident was captured on video by Silveira’s girlfriend, as was the arrest of the suspect, Michael Curll.
“I don’t understand why he got that crazy. I was just trying to get a few laughs,” Silveira said. “I thought it would be a couple of back-and-forths, you know, nothing like that.”
In court Monday, Curll pleaded not guilty to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
His attorney argued that Silveira started the altercation, claiming his client was hit in the face with a metal pole.
Silveira denied that account of the events.
“Absolutely not,” he told NBC10 Boston. “Not even close.”
Curll is due back in court in December. He is facing several unrelated charges in Massachusetts and Connecticut, including assault and battery, drug possession and criminal trespassing.
It’s 24 years since that morning in September when a collective America watched in disbelief as within two hours two hijacked passenger planes took down New York City’s two 110-story world trade towers.
By noon, two more hijacked planes went down, first, slamming into the Pentagon headquarters, followed by the forced crash of a fourth plane found incinerated in a field in Pennsylvania, its passengers having perished fighting the hijackers to avert them from their intended target thought to be the Capitol Building.
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SWAMPSCOTT — Rain did not dampen the mood of roughly 1,000 peaceful and boisterous protesters from Swampscott, Lynn, Nahant and Marblehead who turned out to King’s Beach and the Monument Avenue area on Saturday for a No Kings on King’s Beach protest.
Many arrived expressing anger at policies of the second Trump administration, including an immigration crackdown in Los Angeles that has sparked days of protests and the deployment there of the National Guard.
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Numerous North Shore and Cape Ann communities will take part in mass protests planned to be held across the country this Saturday in opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration — the same day the president will host a military parade to celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary that also falls on Trump’s birthday.
For one, Cape Ann Indivisible plans to stage a protest at Stage Fort Park on Hough Avenue this Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. for a “No Kings” rally in Gloucester.
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