Ava Moeckel

Enjoy Reading On A StoryWalk

GEORGETOWN – You can now walk and read at Georgetown Peabody Library. Along with four reading benches honoring former library staff and major supporters, the town’s Highway Department has installed 19 metal reading stations as part of a StoryWalk on the side lawn of...

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Ipswich Students Raise $17,000 to Fight Hunger

IPSWICH — The Ipswich Middle School Walk for Hunger on April 14 raised $17,000 for the Open Door by more than 300 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. Furthermore, the students pledged to walk approximately 10 miles from High Street to Great Neck. “Year after...

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Doggie Day Care Owner Sentenced to Probation

ROWLEY — April Bernhardt, the former owner of the Hydrant Regency dog kennel will not have to go to jail, as the result of a conviction on 40 counts of animal cruelty. But for the next three years she cannot own or possess any animals. Judge William Martin in the...

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Blindness Fund Receiving Grant Applications

REGIONAL - For programs and services that meet the needs of the vision impaired, improve their quality of life, and enable them to live an independent and productive life, the Greater Newburyport Fund for the Blind (GNFB) is accepting grant applications for up to...

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Celebrate Our Planet

REGIONAL -- Earth Day is just around the corner, so what can you do to celebrate? On Earth Day, April 22, the Merrimack River Watershed Council is looking for volunteers to help clean up Deer Island in Amesbury. As a result of visitors and swift downstream currents,...

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Parking at Crane Beach Gets Pricier

IPSWICH — Out-of-town visitors to Crane Beach will soon have less money in their wallets. Ipswich residents will not be affected. The Crane Estate and Beach Trustees of Reservations will phase out the beach parking permit over the next few months and replace it with a...

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Clark School Opens a Pre-School

ROWLEY – The Clark School has opened a pre-school and plans to expand over the next few years to care for and educate more than 200 students on its growing campus on Rte. 1 here. Opened for about a month, the 45-year-old Clark School is “dedicated to providing a...

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Rotary Gives Horseback Riding Scholarship

An individual with disabilities will be able to have horseback riding lessons this spring thanks to a scholarship awarded by Rotary Club of Ipswich-Rowley and Windrush Farm in North Andover. Any disabled adult, at least 18 years old and under 185 pounds, who lives in...

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Let’s Go Red Hawks

Let’s Go Red Hawks By Ava Moeckel, Reporter AMESBURY — The Red-tail Hawk is the most widespread Buteo hawk in North America. With talons measuring up to 1.33 inches, they are among the largest and most intimidating hunters.  The hawk has a wingspan that averages a...

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