GLOUCESTER – More than 320 thrift fashionistas and hunger-relief supporters attended the sold out The Open Door Thrift the Runway Fashion Show presented by its thrift store, Second Glance, on Sunday at The Cut. The event aligned with New York Fashion Week and Hunger...
Arts & Culture
Taxpayer Money Granted to Private Topsfield Fair
TOPSFIELD – Thanks to a $200,000 grant from the state Office of Travel and Tourism, the Essex Agricultural Society will upgrade a 90-year-old water pipe and continue to replace aging wiring at the Topsfield Fair. State Rep. Kristin Kassner, D-Beverly, announced the...
Welcome Home, Louis Tyree
NEWBURYPORT – Louis Tyree would have been amazed if he could have watched Mayor Sean Reardon and state Rep Dawne Shand honor him and several of his descendants last weekend with an interpretative sign that described his life. As a young man, the son of a black soldier...
Pink House Still Standing – For Now
NEWBURY – When two vans owned by Global Remediation Services arrived at the Pink House last week and a crew toured the house with Matt Hillman, manager of the Parker River Wildlife Refuge, supporters of the house assumed their worst nightmare – the demolition of the...
Civil War Roundtable of Merrimack
The Civil War Roundtable of the Merrimack will next meet on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hilton Senior Center. Doors open about 7pm. For the next meeting of the CWRT of the Merrimack, we'll welcome Michael Vose from the CWRT of New Hampshire....
Georgetown Fall Book Sale
Thursday, September 12 through Sunday, September 15 Georgetown Peabody Library, 2 Maple Street, Georgetown, Mass. The Friends of the Georgetown Peabody Library will be having their Annual Fall Book Sale starting Thursday, September 12 through Sunday, September 15....
Let’s Sing in Harmony – Auditions
Tuesday, September 17, 7:00 p.m., Belleville Congregational Church, 300 High Street. The Newburyport Choral Society (NCS) will hold its second rehearsal of the fall 2024 season. New singers are welcome and there is no fee to attend the first two rehearsals! Enjoy...
Experience Illume Bookstore
NEWBURYPORT – Jen Perry opened Illume, the second bookstore in this small city, on National Independent Bookstore Day. On that day, April 29, 2023, the city’s downtown was humming with the annual Art Walk and even more appropriately with the Newburyport Literary...
An Early Black Attorney Honored
NEWBURYPORT – Louis Tyree was the man any parent would love to have as a son. He grew up in Indiana, where his father was a farmer and fought with the Union Army in the Civil War. His mother was highly literate and imbued her son with a desire for education and to...
DAR Chapter Sponsors Good Citizen Program and Scholarship Contest
DAR Chapter Sponsors Good Citizen Program and Scholarship Contest NEWBURY – The Brigadier General James Brickett – Old Newbury Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is pleased to sponsor the DAR Good Citizens Program and...
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