People and Places

Fun in the summer sun

From behind the scenes to center stage

Passion for dance has been a driving force in Vasudha Kudrimoti’s life. During the week, she works as an IT project manager for the federal Department of Transportation, managing a group of about 60 people and a demanding workload. Her weekends, on the other hand, are filled to the brim with the arts — dance, […]

Award-winning student filmmaker sets lens on future

Just before graduating from Boston University, where he studied film and television, Geraldo Hinch began making his dream a reality. “Being able to make films and tell stories and make a living at it, that’d be my dream,” said Hinch, who was raised in Lynnfield and still resides there. Throughout his academic career, Hinch has […]

A hero in our midst

On the second floor of the Lynnfield Public Library, Marine Corps veteran and federal investigator Alice Ward told her story for approximately two hours. The entire time, she sat with her feet pointed toward the nearest exit. “It’s always safe — until it isn’t,” she remarked. Ward served in Iraq for nearly a decade, doing […]

Here’s the SCOOP

Between coming out with new flavors regularly, winning a national ice cream flavor competition and making all products in house, Mike Schifino, the owner of Holy Cow Ice Cream Cafe in Peabody and Gloucester, is dedicated to making high-quality ice cream for his customers. It all started in 2014, when the Lynnfield native was looking […]

Vaulting into a community center

Meg Caprio has always been involved in fitness. She still is, just not the way she expected to be, after switching careers and opening up her fitness studio, Vault Training, three years ago. She was an athlete in college, performing with the cheer team and running track and field. She then graduated and began her […]

The key to a successful career

Lynnfield High junior Max Faleyev has played classical piano on stages across the country. He won first place at the American Fine Arts Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York, and later competed against pianists from across the world at the Chopin International Competition in Hartford. As Faleyev sat behind the grand piano in his […]

Beavers and coyotes and deer, oh my!

Lynnfield isn’t widely known for its abundance of wildlife, but if you ask Steve Fantone, who runs the YouTube channel Hike Walk Paddle, there’s lots to discover in the area. As the channel’s name might suggest, Fantone is an avid outdoorsman and has recorded himself hiking, walking, and paddling across the region, including along the […]

Oh, brother times four

The Lynnfield hockey team (10-0-1) is off to a flying start this season. And if you’ve gone to a game, you might have seen multiple players with the same last name on more than one occasion. You weren’t going crazy – the Pioneers currently have four sets of siblings on the varsity team. Jack and […]

From Lynnfield to the red carpet

Alex Ross decided to become a journalist while sitting in a chair at the dentist’s office at age 13. Now, she’s interviewing celebrities for People Magazine. “I was obsessed, like my whole life trying to figure out what I wanted to do,” Ross said. “My dentist knew that I was always talking about what I […]