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The Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) is opening a new funding round through the NiSource Charitable Foundation Fund for Merrimack Valley. Grants between $25,000-$200,000 are available to nonprofit organizations in the areas of basic needs and hardship...
Happy New Year! So, how does it feel being back at work? Or, if you are retired, does today feel like any other day? For many people, the New Year is time for resolutions. Gym memberships go up and so do sales of healthier food. I don’t know about you, but I have...
REGIONAL – While attention will inevitably be focused in coming months on what appears to be a year of political chaos in the nation’s capital, 2025 is shaping up to be a busy and contentious year for North Shore residents. Buckle up as the opposition to a proposed...
The Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District will receive $4.9 million via the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to replace 17 diesel buses with new electric buses. The district plans to acquire the new buses by working with Highland Electric Fleets wiith office...
Civil War Roundtable of the Merrimack January Meeting, January 8, 7:30 PM, Hilton Senior Center, 43 Lafayette Road, Salisbury, Mass. This month's topic will be "Currency in the Civil War" presented by Andrew Andrioloulos & John Manning
Malden Catholic students have successfully completed the first marking period of the 2024-2025 school year. High honors were achieved by: Boxford First Honors Sarah Beers '26 Sharlyn Nunez '26 Danvers First Honors Joseph DeBernardo Jr. '26 Julia Hardiman '25 Julia...
ATLANTIC OCEAN – Right whales, one of the world’s most endangered large whale species, may soon have one less threat to their existence, at least in the waters off Massachusetts. The state legislature created an authority to remove abandoned fishing gear from...
Tom Rush is a gifted musician and performer, whose shows offer a musical celebration…a journey into the tradition and spectrum of how music can passionately touch the lives of people everywhere. His distinctive guitar style, wry humor and warm, expressive voice have...
REGIONAL – In 2025, housing will again be a very hot potato communities along the North Shore and throughout eastern Massachusetts have to handle. For several years, residents and would-be homebuyers have grappled with the challenge of low inventories of housing and...
This winter, as nearly 500 endangered sea turtles have received rehabilitative care at the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital after being rescued from Cape Cod, an ice sculpture depicting some of the most critically endangered among them, the Kemp’s ridley sea...
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