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SWAMPSCOTT — Fifty miles wasn't enough to solve the problem of Espresso the whale. But 10 feet looks like it will do the job.

Looky-loos are approaching and even touching a dead whale that washed up on the North Shore for the second time in three weeks.

SWAMPSCOTT — Abbott Park’s swing set playground will be closed from July 3 until August 18 this summer as contractors and Department of Public Works (DPW) workers renovate the playground. Last year, the town received $100,000 in Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities (PARC) grant funding from the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs to renovate and upgrade the Abbott Park near Clarke School.

A back corner of the restaurant was left dangling over the beach, forcing an evacuation of the building.

Town Administrator Sean Fitzgerald warned residents to stay away from the seawall lining the back end of the Mission on the Bay restaurant in an interview Friday morning.Mission on the Bay Owner Marty Bloom hired contractors from Intralux Construction to stabilize the wall after a portion of the wall collapsed last week, leaving a hole in the structure.Fitzgerald said after meeting with Mission on the Bay’s engineers, town officials are concerned that the wall system lining the restaurant is in “a very precarious position.”“No one should go near that wall system right now. It is compro...