In 1974, Robert Erbetta was the fifth recruit of the newly founded Glover’s Marblehead Regiment. The regiment has now reached its 50th anniversary this year and Erbetta, 81, is still a participating member.

“I was a history buff then. The year before, I just got off active duty in the Navy,” Erbatta said. “I said, ‘Well, I was Navy and the founding of the Continental Navy took place here,’ so I said, ‘Alright, I’m going to reenact.’”

Glover’s Marblehead Regiment is a reenactment group of the o

Humor. That is how Jason and Amy Gilliland, and their son Liam, balance life as emergency service workers and a family.

“If you have Thanksgiving dinner with us, feel free to choke,” Jason said.

Jason started his career as a Marblehead firefighter 40 years ago, and has now been the fire chief for 15 years. Amy is the civilian dispatch supervisor in Marblehead and has been working as a dispatcher for 28 years.

Liam followed in his father’s footsteps and became a Marblehead firefighter eight ye

Jacie Broughton, the owner of Marblehead Auto School, has been teaching the town’s teens how to drive for the past 16 years.

“I love this. I wouldn’t want to do anything else,” Broughton said.

Teaching teens how to drive is an important job, she said.

“You drive forever, and it’s the most dangerous thing you’ll ever do, so it should be the most important thing,” Broughton said.

Before owning her own driving school, she said she was an interior designer while also working at a different schoo

Today we’re going back to 1904, when mental health treatment looked vastly different from how it does today. According to research done by the University of Toledo, mental health treatment was “nearly non-existent” at that time.

But if you lived in Marblehead at that time, you could treat mental illness with pottery thanks to Herbert Hall.

“He was a medical doctor, and he specialized in nervous disorders,” Pam Peterson, chair of the Marblehead Historical Commission, said. “He established a san

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 into investment properties and took a “calculated risk” on a place in Gloucester.

“Once I got in there and started doing some renovations and stuff, it turned out

When you go to a sports game, whether that be baseball, hockey, basketball or football, there is a sea of fans wearing jerseys for their favorite players. This may be changing in the future because Lynnfield native Charles Arakelian has a new product for sports fans to wear: “a hat that resembles a jersey.”

“The way I really started the hat business was an idea I had, of instead of wearing a jersey to a game, why not wear a hat. So I know a lot of people aren’t fond of wearing jerseys that can

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 wanted to do when I grew up, and he came in one day, I think it was in eighth grade and he was like, alright, like, what is it this time? And I was like … I’m deciding whether or not I want to be