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  • Swampscott, MA

Email terry.date@patch.com    

Phone 603-978-2373

Hometown Portsmouth, NH

Birthday April 12

Bio  Terry Date likes stories. He grew up in a family of five kids and there were lots of stories. He liked listening to them at the kitchen table, corner store and playgrounds.

Later, he liked to read them in books at school, borrowed from the library and at home.

Still later, he spent most of his spare money on books. New ones, some in hardcover.

He sleeps with five or six hardcovers in his bed. That can be uncomfortable.

The hardest part about moving from Newmarket, New Hampshire to the North Shore was moving and storing the books.

Earlier, he graduated from Michigan State University with a dual degree, in history and English. Also, he started writing stories there.

The past 12 years as a reporter he has had the pleasure of interviewing people and telling their stories, as well as reporting news events and shooting photographs.

He worked for two dailies, Foster's Daily Democrat and The Eagle-Tribune. He covered Seacoast towns for Foster's and Southern New Hampshire towns for the Tribune.

He left the Tribune to take the Swampscott Patch editor's job and looks forward to more stories.

Politics  I'm a registered Democrat.   Religion

I pray, but do not subscribe to any particular religious belief. Local Hot-Button Issues

Taxes. 

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Two People Lying Down in the Street

The following information came from the Swampscott Police Department. Where charges are listed, they do not indicate a conviction.

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A Historical Garden Party

Garden party attendees got a first look at the Historical Society's 2014 calendar of historical photos of Swampscott.

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Despondent Man Slices Arm in Police Lobby

This was the second time this year police have been confronted with dangerous situations at night or in the early morning at the police station.

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