Danvers High School has banned students from going 'meep!'

High school Principal Thomas Murray said students were using it and other words to disrupt school in a particular part of the building on Cabot Road. The term later became part of a disruption some students were planning online.

School Superintendent Wile E. Coyote was unavailable for comment.

Check out Lynn Happens for a non-Lynn Daily Item approach to news of tomorrow's municipal elections. Also see Downtown Lynn, which is supporting one of the candidates for mayor.

Chris Klein follows the president on his trip to Marblehead.

Maybe NECN reporters don't want to risk getting swept out to sea, but Rick Nohl and some other weather fans seemed to have no such qualms along the water in Lynn today. Nohl notes his camera was inside a waterproof housing.

Furious waves pounding Scituate.

Storm takes a bite out of Sandwich.

At least, until police departments update their writen policies for taking inventory of the property of newly arrested suspects under a Massachusetts Appeals Court decision handed down today.

A “Voter Choice” initiative petition turned in to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office on Wednesday would give Massachusetts voters a chance to change to a voting system that lets voters rank their choices instead of voting for only one candidate. The change would apply to key races, including for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary and treasurer, among others, starting after January 2012.

Which, to paraphrase one of my favorite Groucho Marx lines, is more than we've ever done.

The Peabody team has made it to the Little League World Series, and tonight is their opening round game. They will be playing the team from San Antonio, Texas.

Start is scheduled for 8pm, on ESPN.

If nothing else, enjoy listening to the announcers trying to say "P-biddy".

Steve B. captures a pair in action along the Ipswich River, from the initial chase to the ultimate release (of eggs).

Rebel Shakespeare Company returns its second tour of the summer with the comedy "Twelfth Night." Our high-school aged cast from all over Massachusetts will roam up and down the North Shore, with a Boston Stop at the Christian Herter Park Publick Theatre on August 22nd at 4pm. Now, here's the deal -- Rebel is opening again for the awesome Orfeo Group doing that "WOWSA" thing they do (Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)). It is their LAST PERFORMANCE, of their summer run... so you can come see us at 4, and then stay for them at 6:45.

Somebody on the North Shore roasts pigs every weekend and winds up with too much pulled pork. Rather than buy smaller pigs, they're trying to give it away.

Via Nathan Spencer.