Well, this morning in Lawrence started out with a bang as demolition crews took down two 100-year-old smoke stacks near Sal’s headquarters. We were on hand to talk to some of the neighbors who grew up looking at those big old stacks. One woman — who does not appear on the video — is 95 and has lived across from the old mill all her life, with several generations of her family still in the home. It was demonstrative of just how tight-knit some of these Lawrence neighborhoods remain despite the changes around them. The twin stacks that served as a backdrop to their home for so many years, however, are now gone. Out with the old and in with the new.
Noah R. Bombard is the new media editor for The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover. He is a former award-winning newspaper and magazine editor who has been covering news in Massachusetts since 1997.