The stage is set for an epic battle in Salem Sound this weekend as Jubilee Yacht Club hosts the 2011 Atlantis WeatherGear Snipe Women’s Nationals. Joining former Olympian and Snipe class regular Carol Cronin will be Lynne Jewell Shore...

The Salem News: It’s a stretch of ocean that extends from Gales Point in Manchester-by-the-Sea to Marblehead Neck, and around the middle of last century, it was suffering. By 1964, more than half of the 156 pipes that emptied...

Maine Saco Bay: Craig at Saco Bay Tackle reports that striper fishing is an early-morning or night bite. Live eels are taking fish at the mouth of the Saco and Pine Point. Hot lures are Mambo Minnows and 6...

Marblehead, which celebrated its 360th anniversary in 2009, is a small town with long boating tradition. Located 18 miles north of Boston, the town boasts a deep and well-protected natural harbor that’s home to some 1,200 recreational boats (two-thirds...

Got witches? Salem does (supposedly), and plenty of them, along with warlocks, sorcerers and other purported practitioners of the dark arts. Yes, it’s true that this historic seaport on the North Shore of Massachusetts is best known as the...