Category Archives: Gary

Publisher Richard Ayer confirmed this morning that North Shore Golf Magazine will, in fact, continue publishing in 2012, its 10th consecutive year, a wonderfully surprising reversal of what had been his decision of a few weeks ago to take a one-year … Continue reading →

Don’t kid yourself. This WAS deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra would say. Patriots in ideal poisition to win their fourth Super Bowl and they gift wrap it to the Giants — again. Not eerie. Spooky and then … Continue reading →

Our condolences go out to the families and friends of two special people from the North Shore who passed on recently: 1. Dr. Frederick O. Buckley, a prominent local physician and patriarch of the super athletic Buckley clan of Marblehead … Continue reading →

Sad to report that publisher Richard Ayer has suspended publication of North Shore Golf and Tennis magazine in 2012 after an exciting nine-year run. It’s all about the economy. Advertising, which was the magazine’s only financial mechanism, simply hadn’t measured … Continue reading →

Our condolences go out to the family and friends of Hugh Nelson, on the legendary Beverly High athlete’s passing on January 17 at the age of 94. Hugh was a superb baseball and football player, a member of the Beverly … Continue reading →

Tricky dribbling — with an occasional fiddlin’ and diddlin,’ as the inimitable Johnny Most used to say — all over the place today, but starting with a plea that you read a couple phenomenal journalistic efforts from the December 12, … Continue reading →

Mark O’Meara, one of the few golfers to win the Masters and the British Open in the same year, will be the headline honoree at the 2012 Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund annual banquet slated for Monday, May 7, at the Boston … Continue reading →

It was deja vu all over again when Salem CC’s Steven Dilisio and Far Corner’s Nick McLaughlin  were honored as repeat Junior champions at the Massachusetts Golf Association “Salute to Champions” dinner January 5 at Wellesley Country Club. McLaughlin, the … Continue reading →

Hard to believe that the newspaper of record for Boston’s North Shore and the most historic city in the region — The Salem News — would ditch their one weekly columnist who is not only considered the city’s foremost historian, but … Continue reading →

Dick Drew, after nearly 30 years as superintendent at Olde Salem (Mass.) Greens golf course, Salem’s municipal nine-holer, has called it a career. Drew, 65, finished 28-plus years in charge at Olde Salem on August 11, the day after he … Continue reading →