🌱 $1M Powerball Ticket Sold + Police Honored: Salem A.M. Digest

Up and at 'em, Salem! It's Friday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on in Salem today.

First, today's weather:

Nice with plenty of sun. High: 71 Low: 56.

Here are the top stories in Salem today:

1. Salem police, dispatchers recognized for 'once in a career' situation (Eagle-Tribune)
2. Paul J. Parisi Appointed as Ipswich Fire Chief (John Guilfoil Public Relations LLC)
3. Cases of Legionnaires' disease detected in the Merrimack Valley (Eagle-Tribune)
4. $1M Powerball ticket sold in Haverhill | Local News (The Harvell gazette)

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Today in Salem:

• Leaves to Camp Lincoln - The Birches Academy of Academics - Art a Public Charter Sch (12:00 AM)
• Italian Wine and Desserts (9:00 AM)
• Event of a Member: Salem Dems Coffee & Conversation Zoom Meeting (10:00 AM)
• Ardbeg's Monsters of Smoke Tour Comes to Salem (1:00 PM)

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— Jason Claffey

About me: I grew up in Massachusetts outside Boston and started my journalism career at 19 when I earned an internship in the sports department of The Boston Globe. I graduated from Boston University in 2007 and became a reporter at Foster's Daily Democrat in New Hampshire before joining Patch in 2010. I've covered three New Hampshire primaries and won awards for environmental reporting and Sunday staff excellence from the New England Newspaper & Press Association.

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