Danvers – Care Dimensions will hold its 20th annual Camp Stepping Stones, a special opportunity for children and their families to connect with other grieving families, to honor and remember those who have died, and have some fun. This year, with COVID precautions in...
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Rowley Public Library Virtual Program hosts The History of the Merrimack River & how to clean it up
Join the Rowley Public Library virtually on Wed., April 21 at 7pm. Local author and journalist Dyke Hendrickson will discuss his new book, Merrimack: The Resilient River, An Illustrated Narrative of the Most Historic River in New England, in this Zoom webinar. Visit...
CRANE ESTATE HORTICULTURALIST LEADS SPRING PRUNING WORKSHOP
The Italian Garden at Castle Hill in full bloom event. Crane Estate horticulturist Beth Walsh will lead an in-person and hands-on workshop to learn proper pruning techniques and the best strategies to mitigate winter damage and deer browse. The workshop will include...
Essex Police Department Tips During National 9-1-1 Education Month
ESSEX - Chief Paul Francis and the Essex Police share guidelines and tips to access help in the midst of an emergency during National 9-1-1 Education Month. According to the National Emergency Number Association, approximately 240 million calls are made to 911 each...
April at The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables officially opened as a museum and settlement house on April 30, 1910. Caroline Emmerton restored the famed mansion and capitalized on the fame of Nathaniel Hawthorne to fund her settlement house. The settlement house provided a slew of...
Newburyport Yard Waste Facility open for the season
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...
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...
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