Salem's 400+ Heritage Days festival runs August 1-9 with a full schedule of parades and events, Mayor Dominick Pangallo announced Tuesday. The city is also recruiting three residents for its newly formed Taxpayer Relief Committee, which will oversee a new Taxpayer Aid Fund under state l…

Seven Salem students earned City of Salem and Waste Management scholarships, Mayor Pangallo announced this weekend. The awards recognized essays on reducing solid waste, continuing a city-nonprofit partnership Salem Patch also covered. Separately, the North Shore nonprofit Wellspring Ho…

Salem's schools get a new leader as City Hall opens a search for its taxpayer relief panel. The School Committee selected Thomas Welch as the district's next superintendent, and he said he was humbled to take the job and pledged a "student-centered" approach, per a report titled "'Deepl…

Salem forms a Taxpayer Relief Committee as its schools land a new superintendent from Boston. The city is recruiting three residents to oversee a newly created Taxpayer Aid Fund, per the town's News Flash feed, while the School Committee voted Wednesday night to offer the superintendent…