The Town Common
Memorial Day, Tributes, Parades Around the Area
Memorial Day, A very special thank you to all that served to enable our freedoms! And, thank you to the Kiwanis for producing all the banners plus the 15 plus new banners honoring our service men, women, and their families! Our Georgetown Municipal Light Department...
Peace Love Thrift Going Strong at Fifth Anniversary
by Joe Kelly GEORGETOWN – Peace Love Thrift opened on May 1, 2021, at 22 E. Main Street in Georgetown, inside a building that still holds the vault from an older bank that, according to local legend, burned down sometime in the 1880s. The vault survived, and the town...
Newburyport Custom House Lands Rare Patriotic Textile
NEWBURYPORT – It was a tense morning at the Custom House Maritime Museum, the adrenalin and hot caffeine flowed as executive director James Russell, his team and a very special donor competed in the Eldred Auction for a rare patriotic textile of the Declaration of...
WE HONOR TROOPER KEVIN TRAINOR
Like so many churches, businesses, and residents, The Town Common and the extended Town Common contributors pause to honor the life and service of Mass. State Police Trooper Kevin Trainor. May his family find comfort.
The Friends of the Newbury Town Library in Byfield Plant Sale, Sat. May 16
BYFIELD − The Friends of the Newbury Town Library is hosting a Plant Sale on Saturday, May 16, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the library, 0 Lunt St., Byfield. The fundraiser typically attract hundreds of plant enthusiasts and gardeners. Drop by to check out the...
Amesbury Student Earns Bishop Fenwick Student-Athlete Award
Congratulations are extended to Bishop Fenwick High School Student-Athlete of the Month for March: Senior Brittney Figulski, Basketball from Amesbury. Brittney is a Senior three-sport athlete and a captain of Fenwick’s 2026 State Championship basketball team. Starting...
Store Shout-Out: Cumberland Farms Ipswich
Store Shout-Out: Cumberland Farms Ipswich Johnathan Jodoin (L) and Andy Homas (R), manager of Cumberland Farms Ipswich display a recent copy of The Town Common which they make available to customers. Drop by say "Hey, I saw you in The Town Common!" (Photo by Julianne...
MOVING SALE/GARAGE SALE SAT. MAY 16th
RAIN OR SHINE: 10 AM THRU 3 PM, 3 Larkspurk Circle, GEORGETOWN What are we selling? If it's not listed here "we probably don't got it." We do have a good variety of "stuff." BEDROOM STUFF: A one-year-old DELUXE KING SIZE BED (sadly we must part with it because we are...
Ipswich Fire Dept. Receives $9,326 Grant
IPSWICH − The Ipswich Fire Department will provide proven fire safety lessons and resources to both students and seniors this year thanks to $9,326 in state grant funding. Ipswich Fire will receive a $6,381 grant to fund the SAFE program, and a $2,945 grant to fund...
