Over the past week, Wrenn, 37, owner of Sully's Brand T-Shirts, has sold more than 3,000 of the shirts, in Boston Marathon colors of yellow and blue, earning $50,000 for The One Fund:

http://goo.gl/onmQh

Former Salem Police Officer Nelson Dionne was a co-recipient of Historic New England's 2013 Prize for Collecting Works on Paper. Dionne saved an extensive collection of Salem memorabilia collected during his years of walking a beat:

http://goo.gl/n5iDO

Summer is becoming a time for special programs and enrichment efforts targeting children with special needs, limited English or students from low-income families. This summer, more than 700 Salem children will attend some form of summer school:

http://goo.gl/ngXIi

Should the Commonwealth take away the plastic shopping bag? A sampling of North Shore residents reveals a general reaction to the idea:

http://goo.gl/qiF5Z

Councilors voted to recommend that Mayor Kim Driscoll appoint enough people to fill the Board of Health to its full complement of seven people.

http://goo.gl/Ou2qj

Danvers selectmen favor a one-year moratorium on the location of medical marijuana dispensaries in town until the state Department of Public Health formulates its regulations on them.

http://goo.gl/Wnwu6

Residents have asked Mayor Bettencourt “on an almost daily basis why Peabody is not home to any alternative providers of cable TV, high-speed Internet and telephone service.”

http://goo.gl/itkpF

Volunteers have been working for the past 11 years to turn the Lynch Park Carriage House into a community center. Beverly Mayor Bill Scanlon wants to take the project into a higher gear, and has therefore requested the city council approve $100,000 of funding to be used for it.

http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1121360377/-100K-sought-for-carriage-house

“Public art is one of those things that has been a missing ingredient in Salem,” Mayor Kim Driscoll said in a meeting which included alot of local artists. Consultants from St. Louis hired through a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help Salem take the first steps toward creating a lively, art-filled downtown.

http://goo.gl/AgyY2

The Gloucester Times' list of upcoming events in Gloucester:

http://goo.gl/QPNYK