Wenham Man: 'Oh my Gosh' as Manhunt Unfolds Overnight on Twitter

A Wenham man recounts watching live updates from Watertown come across Twitter in the early morning hours of Friday.

It was all too real for Wenham resident Tyson Goodridge early Friday morning when he saw a tweeted photo showing a hole in a wall and chair in a Watertown home. Goodridge, who calls himself a “social media evangelist,” said he first started tracking Thursday night’s activities when he heard about the shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer on the Cambridge campus. Later that night – into early Friday morning – the search for the men authorities said were responsible for Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon became very real on Twitter. “It was just ‘oh my gosh,’” Goodridge said after seeing a tweet from someone who lived near the area where several dozen shots and explosions were heard in Watertown. “That is …

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Meet Your Neighbor

This Wenham Man Used to Have a 'Jay Leno Chin'

This week meet a Wenham father who got a private visit to the Oval Office.

Name: Tyson Perry Goodridge Street: Arbor Street, Wenham Family: Wife, Anya, owner of sugarcoated, a jewelry company. (It's holiday season, so people, buy some presents for friends and family (http://bit.ly/sugarcoatedjewelry). We have two boys; Walker, 8 and Perry, 7. Occupation: Principal of Dialogue, a Marketing and Social Media Advisory Services firm. Hobbies/interests: Anything with my family. Throwing a dinner party, golf, tennis and anything outdoors. What are you passionate about? Two things: Food and marketing, specifically technology and social media. It's absolutely incredible what you can do with a cell phone, a good idea and putting smart people and ideas together. What did you study in school? MBA (Babson) and B.A. American …

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Tyson Goodridge

11:19 pm on Sunday, December 2, 2012

Thanks for the plug Michelle! and Lindsay- IFRL meeting at the same time!!   more ›

Swartz Becomes Newest School Committee Member

Larry Swartz was appointed Thursday night to a seat on the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School Committee.

Larry Swartz was approved Thursday night to become the newest member of the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School Committee. The eight member committee and the three members of the Wenham Board of Selectmen appointed Swartz in a narrow 6-5 vote in a combined meeting at Buker Elementary School on Thursday night. Swartz got the backing of School Committee members Sean Condon, Bill Dery and Roger Kuebel and Board of Wenham Selectmen Chairman Molly Martins and plus board members John Clemenzi and Patrick Wilson. The other top candidate, Harriet Davis, received five votes from School Committee members Kym Donnellan, Alexa McCloughan, Anne Minois, Jack O'Keefe and Dacia Rubel. The third candidate, Tyson Goodridge, did not get any votes. The 11 …

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Michelle Bailey

12:11 pm on Sunday, September 25, 2011

Wow, Patch had this news posted within hours of the appointment. The story does not cover the lengthy discussion that followed the appointment of whether Mr. Swartz should be granted a waiver that would allow him as an appointed official to vote on all matters before the School Committee including those that might directly or indirectly affect his wife's position. That waiver was granted in an 8 …   more ›

Two Former Selectmen Among Candidates to Fill Open School Committee Seat

The School Committee and Wenham Board of Selectmen will decide next week who will fill an empty seat on the School Committee until next May's election.

Two former Selectmen and a Wenham parent are the three candidates Wenham Selectmen and School Committee members will have to choose from to fill an empty School Committee seat. Harriet Davis, Tyson Goodridge and Larry Swartz are the three residents who submitted their name to fill the vacany left when Don Gallant resigned last month. The Committee’s bylaws require that since Gallant is from Wenham the vacancy must be filled by a Wenham resident. Davis was a Wenham selectmen who was defeated by Patrick Wilson in last year’s election. Goodridge is a parent with two boys in the school system. Swartz is a former selectman who served as chairman. Voters will decide who fills the position at the polls next May, but the person chosen next week …

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Robert Gates

4:30 pm on Thursday, September 15, 2011

Lucy, that was my mistake. I apologize. It has been corrected.   more ›