In the News

WASHINGTON —While members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation are pleased that the House passed a package of 18 opioid bills last week, they say more funding is needed to make substantial progress in the fight against drug addiction.

The Veterans of Tewskbury will host the town’s Memorial Day ceremony at 1 p.m. May 30 at Tewksbury Cemetery, 172 East St.

The ceremony will feature speakers, a prayer, a 21-gun salute and a presentation of flowers to honor deceased service members. Other events include a reading of the poem “In Flanders Field” and the Tewskbury Memorial High School band performing the national anthem.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Seth Moulton will also be in attendance.

“Former West Lynn Creamery owner Arthur Pappathanasi hopes to break ground in early 2017 on the development next to the Lynn commuter ferry wharf, local economic development officials said. The pilot ferry service that started in 2014 has been on hold this year but the city recently received a $4.5 million federal grant to buy a new 149-passenger vessel, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton’s office recently announced, potentially restarting the service to downtown Boston.

LYNN — Today, it’s a 14-acre wasteland of concrete, grass and weeds with spectacular ocean views at the start of the Carroll Parkway on the Lynnway.

But soon, the desolate site will be filled with three, five-story wood-frame waterfront apartment buildings that the developers hope will attract young renters to Lynn.

“We are hoping Millennials and the younger generation between the ages of 22- and 40-years-old who are priced out of Boston will want to live in Lynn,” said Louis Minicucci Jr.

LYNN — She sells homes for a living, but Eileen Jonah-Daly will join other agents in Washington D.C. today to meet with members of Congress to champion the real estate industry.

The National Association of Realtors and their legion of brokers will continue to fight to preserve homeowner tax deductions. They will meet over the next week with U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton and other supporters.

“He is 100 percent for creating homes affordable to veterans and middle-class workers,” Jonah-Daly said of the Salem Democrat.

LYNN — It has the potential to unlock billions in gleaming residential and commercial real estate projects and transform the Lynnway.

But without it, there’s a chance development will stall.

At issue is whether the MBTA’s River Works Station at the General Electric Co. plant on Western Avenue will open to the public. Today, the T only stops at the factory on the Newburyport/Rockport Line for GE employees. The Conn.-based corporate giant owns the station and the commuter rail picks up and drops off employees as a courtesy.