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Where Can I Park During the Parking Ban?

Here's a handy guide to off-street parking in Marblehead.

Marblehead's Winter Parking Ban will continue until April 15, 2013 - and earlier this week, one of our readers asked us if we could provide a list of places where they can legally leave their car overnight.  So, as part of this week's You Ask...Patch Answers column, here's a quick run-down of some of the places in town where people without their own spaces can park overnight, though many of these spaces require that the owners retrieve their vehicles before 7 a.m. or they will be ticketed. Before parking, be sure to adhere to the rules of each individual parking lot as they vary. Roundhouse Road: This large parking lot off of Pleasant Street provides 72-hour parking. Some of the spaces are designated commercial and vehicles must be parked …

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Danvers Ends Winter Parking Ban - Should Marblehead?

The town of Danvers ended a winter parking ban Tuesday that dates back more than 40 years. Should Marblehead follow suit?

Residents will now being able to park on Danvers streets overnight this winter unless a snowstorm is approaching. That was the decision made Tuesday night by the Board of Selectmen in Danvers, which unanimously voted to change a town policy that has existed for more than 40 years banning overnight parking between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. during the winter. Meaning that beginning Jan. 1, Danvers' ban will only go into place when a snowstorm is forecasted to drop snow and will still apply only to the hours of 1-6 a.m. So, we have to ask - should the town Marblehead make changes to its current winter parking policy? Would you consider a blue light emergency warning system similar to one that was recently-implemented in Peabody? The winter parking …

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mary p. ayer

9:21 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012

HEY---WE COULD USE YOU IN WASHINGTON!!! SAME STORY! DOES IT MAKE ANY SENSE TO RAISE TAXES---(AND PRETEND IT IS JUST FOR THE WEALTHY TOP TWO PERCENT!!) AND NOT CUT SPENDING? ?-- OUR TAXES ARE ALREADY TOO HIGH!!! AND---BRING ON THE BLUE LIGHT SYSTEM!   more ›

POLL: Should Marblehead Implement a Blue Light System?

Marblehead's winter parking ban is set to begin on Nov. 26.

At their meeting at Abbot Hall last week, the Board of Selectmen announce that tickets, not warnings, will be issued to offending vehicles on the first night of this year's on-street winter parking ban. The news that vehicles parked on the street overnight on Nov. 26 would be ticketed by local police officers stimulated quite the discussion among our readers, so we have to ask: do you support the winter parking ban in Marblehead? Would you consider a blue light emergency warning system similar to one that was recently-implemented in Peabody? The winter parking ban will officially commence at 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 26 and continue until April 15. No parking will be allowed on any street for a period longer than one hour between the hours of …

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No Warnings This Year on First Night of Winter Parking Ban

Be warned - local police officers will be issuing tickets, not warnings on the first night of the winter parking ban.

Consider yourself warned - tickets, not warnings, will be issued to offending vehicles on the first night of this year's on-street winter parking ban. At the Board of Selectmen's meeting at Abbot Hall Wednesday night, Chairwoman Jackie Belf-Becker announced that vehicles parked overnight on Nov. 26 will be ticketed because "this year there will be multiple efforts to publicize the date." "Our board will be mentioning this date three times, then there will be a code red call to local residents and we will have a notice in the paper as well," she said. The winter parking ban will officially commence at 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 26 and continue until April 15. No parking will be allowed on any street for a period longer than one hour between the …

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Winter Parking Ban Ends Tonight

Marblehead's on-street parking ban will end at midnight tonight.

Earlier this month, the Board of Selectmen unanimously passed a motion to end Marblehead's winter parking ban three weeks early due to the lack of snow during the winter months. The parking ban, which was originally scheduled to end on April 15, will officially end at midnight tonight. The Board of Selectmen will still have the authority to reinstate the ban in the case of a snow emergency. Full parking ban information can be viewed here on the town's website.

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