The Yard Waste Facility will be opened on Tuesday, April 6 this year. It will be open Tuesdays- Saturdays from 7:30 AM -2.30 PM. To order your resident sticker visit: City of Newburyport Click on the Online Services button. Click on Online Payments Center. Click on...
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Shawsheen and Merrimack River herring migration soon
Join the MRWC on April 12th at 7pm to learn about river herring on the Shawsheen and Merrimack Rivers. Jon Honea, a professor of ecology at Emerson College and a Conservation Commissioner for the Town of Andover, will be speaking about the ecological and historic...
The Walk for Hunger registration continues
BOSTON – The Walk for Hunger is continuing to seek participants to join the community dedicated to doing good by helping get food to kids and families during the pandemic. A virtual fundraiser that supports Project Bread’s work to increase food access for people of...
Volunteers needed for work on bike, pedestrian trail
NEWBURYPORT – Members of the Parker River Clean Water Association (PRCWA) are seeking volunteers to help work on improving the Gloria Braunhardt bike and pedestrian trail on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m, 10 April, 2021.Volunteers are asked to wear masks and to meet...
Plum Island Roasters Fights to Stay Open
NEWBURYPORT – It looked like just another busy day at the Plum Island Roasters Coffee House last Friday. A steady stream of coffee lovers poured in for a better-than-normal day. Owner Bruce Vogel was behind the counter, serving coffee, bantering with regulars and...
Join Mike and The Town Common On a Run Across America
REGIONAL - Michael Wilson is running 3,250 miles from the Santa Monica, CA pier to the Newburyport waterfront to raise money for Lucy’s Love Bus in Amesbury that serves children and adults with cancer. Wilson, 28, who lives in Eliot, ME and works as a personal trainer...
Brighter smiles …
I remember seeing a commercial for a cholesterol medication in which the person playing the doctor says, “I wish my patients could see what I see.” I think there are two ways to look at that statement. The commercial showed an image of animated artery walls clogging...
Pontine Theatre Presents THE GREEN SHAY by George Savary Wasson: A story of old Kittery Point, Maine
PORTSMOUTH NH: April 9 -11, Pontine Theatre brings George Savary Wasson’s early 1905 novel, The Green Shay to the stage. The two-person production features Pontine Co-Directors, Greg Gathers and Marguerite Mathews. Wasson’s books have been described as “the most...
Amesbury Chamber of commerce shares Transition to Phase IV of Reopening Plan
BOSTON — The Baker-Polito Administration announced that Massachusetts will advance to Step 1 of Phase IV of the Commonwealth’s reopening plan on Monday, March 22. The Administration continues to take steps to reopen the Commonwealth's economy with public health...
Easing Students’ Anxieties as They Return to the Classroom
When it comes to the emotional well-being of students post-pandemic, a new study reveals that teachers expect significant challenges when schools make a full return to in-person learning. The study, commissioned by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), the world...
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