David Lee Comeau

David Lee Comeau

David Lee Comeau, (72), passed away peacefully on November 14th, 2024. His loving wife of 52 years and son, Dan by his side. David is now at peace...

BankProv Exceeds Community Food Drive Goal, Donates Nearly 2,000 Items to Local Pantries

BankProv Exceeds Community Food Drive Goal, Donates Nearly 2,000 Items to Local Pantries

AMESBURY – BankProv is thrilled to announce the successful completion of its 2024 Community Food Drive, surpassing the ambitious goal of collecting 1,828 food items and achieving nearly 2,000 donations. The initial goal of 1,828 items was inspired by the incredible response from staff at our October Employee Appreciation Event, whose generosity set the stage for this remarkable achievement. This meaningful target also paid tribute to the year BankProv was founded, 1828, reflecting our deep-rooted dedication to...

Masconomet Regional High School Students Once Again Take Part in Memory Project

Masconomet Regional High School Students Once Again Take Part in Memory Project

TOPSFIELD – Superintendent Michael Harvey and Principal Katie DiNardo are proud to once again share that 16 Masconomet Regional High School students have taken part in an international project promoting kindness and intercultural understanding. Through the Memory Project, students received portrait photographs of school children from India, and under the guidance of art faculty member Elizabeth Saitta created portrait paintings and drawings. Since 2004, the Memory Project has engaged 300,000 youth in 55 countries...

New Panel Honors Black Soldiers and Sailors

New Panel Honors Black Soldiers and Sailors

NEWBURYPORT – During World War II, the father and three uncles of the future Essex County sheriff Frank Cousins, Jr. enlisted in the Navy, Merchant Marine and Army Air Forces to fight against Germany. A new interpretative panel, “Fighting for Double Victory, Newburyport’s Black Soldiers and Sailors,” on Brown Square near Green Street in front of City Hall recognizes the service of African American soldiers and sailors from Newburyport, including the four Cousins brothers. It will be officially unveiled at 3 p.m....

Ruth Flora (Zieff) Mades

Ruth Flora (Zieff) Mades

Ruth Flora (Zieff) Mades, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and formerly of Georgetown, Massachusetts died peacefully on December 4, 2024 at the age of...

Engagement Announcement – Goss & Bretton

Engagement Announcement – Goss & Bretton

Mr. & Mrs. George F. Connolly, Jr., formerly of Georgtown, MA, currently of Appling, GA, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kathleen V. Goss, to Jason G. Bretton. Katie is a Georgetown High School graduate and...

Brighter Smiles … THE ORAL/SYSTEMIC LINK 3/3

Brighter Smiles … THE ORAL/SYSTEMIC LINK 3/3

If you missed Part 1 and/or 2 of this series, you can find it at www.thetowncommon.com. The past couple weeks have been about the growing evidence that links oral and systemic disease, and the need for more collaboration between dentists and...

BankProv Exceeds Community Food Drive Goal, Donates Nearly 2,000 Items to Local Pantries

BankProv Exceeds Community Food Drive Goal, Donates Nearly 2,000 Items to Local Pantries

AMESBURY – BankProv is thrilled to announce the successful completion of its 2024 Community Food Drive, surpassing the ambitious goal of collecting 1,828 food items and achieving nearly 2,000 donations. The initial goal of 1,828 items was inspired by the incredible response from staff at our October Employee Appreciation Event, whose generosity set the stage for this remarkable achievement. This meaningful target also paid tribute to the year BankProv was founded, 1828, reflecting our deep-rooted dedication to...

Ruth Flora (Zieff) Mades

Ruth Flora (Zieff) Mades

Ruth Flora (Zieff) Mades, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and formerly of Georgetown, Massachusetts died peacefully on December 4, 2024 at the age of 86 surrounded by her loving family. Ruth was born in 1938,  to Barney and Esther (Cohen) Zieff beach side, in Winthrop, Massachusetts.  As a journalism student at Boston University,  Ruth traveled extensively as a reporter for the university newspaper.  In 1957, she married the love of her life,...

NORTH SHORE PLAYERS PRESENT ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’

NORTH SHORE PLAYERS PRESENT 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL' North Shore Players (www.northshoreplayersma.org) invite you to Christmas Eve, 1939. You will be in the audience as the cast portrays Orson Welles, Lionel Barrymore and the Mercury Players in a live radio version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Dress in 1930s attire and join in singing carols. Show times are 7 p.m., Dec. 14 and 2 p.m., Dec. 15, at Maple Street Congregational Church, 90...

Newburyport Fire Extinguishes Solar Panel Fire

NEWBURYPORT – Fire Chief Stephen Bradbury III reports that the Newburyport Fire Department extinguished a solar panel fire at a single-family home  recently. On Tuesday, Nov. 19 at approximately 8:46 a.m., Newburyport Fire responded to 247 Merrimack St. for reports that smoke was showing from a roof. Upon arrival, crews observed that a solar panel located on the roof of the addition of a single-family home was on fire. Crews immediately began...

Engagement Announcement – Goss & Bretton

Engagement Announcement – Goss & Bretton

Mr. & Mrs. George F. Connolly, Jr., formerly of Georgtown, MA, currently of Appling, GA, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kathleen V. Goss, to Jason G. Bretton. Katie is a Georgetown High School graduate and is currently employed at a bank in No. Andover, MA. She lives in Salem, NH. Jason G. Bretton, son of Mr. & Mrs. Gerald B. Bretton, Sr., of Plaistow, NH. Jason is a graduate of Timberlane Regional High...

Brighter Smiles … THE ORAL/SYSTEMIC LINK 3/3

Brighter Smiles … THE ORAL/SYSTEMIC LINK 3/3

If you missed Part 1 and/or 2 of this series, you can find it at www.thetowncommon.com. The past couple weeks have been about the growing evidence that links oral and systemic disease, and the need for more collaboration between dentists and physicians. All of this, of course, is in the best interest of the patient. The body is a complex system – and everything is connected. The health status of an individual’s mouth can absolutely play a role...

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