The Town Common

Georgetown Community Gardens’ Clean-up Approved

GEORGETOWN – The town’s Conservation Commission (ConCom) narrowly approved Alan Aulson’s plan to use his goats, volunteers armed with weed wackers and metal detectors and Essex County inmates to clean up the overgrown Community Gardens. Aulson, who owns the Great Rock...

Manchester-by-the-Sea American Legion Post 113 End-of Summer Ride to Support Our Troops

"Ride with Purpose. Ride with Pride. Ride for Our Troops" was the motto of the American Legion Post 113 of Manchester-by-the-Sea' end-of-summer fundraising ride to support Operation Troop Support, a local organization that provides support directly to our troops...

What Makes Gilbert Insurance Special in Georgetown?

by Kay Lee Ogden This week’s Business Spotlight shines on Gilbert Insurance Agency, of Georgetown, managed by Daniel A. Stewart, and located in the Eagle Building, 37 West Main Street, Unit #2. Dan and his lovely wife, Stephanie, are the proud parents of four...

Aulson Brings American Legion/Community Together to Give Georgetown Community Gardens a Major Makeover

GEORGETOWN – The town’s Community Gardens, which have been allowed to overgrow in recent years, is being made ready for a new plantings next spring thanks to a local businessman and several civic groups. This weekend, the American Legion Georgetown chapter gave Alan...

Boxford: King’s Tree Farm and Nursery Sign Gets a Facelift

BOXFORD – Robert and Nancy King spruced up the welcoming signs to the King's Tree Farm and Nursery in West Boxford this past weekend. I stopped and asked Robert what was up, and he explained how he and his wife Nancy had just given the old signage a facelift. Robert,...

Lions Club Helps the Blind Read

REGIONAL – For years since he lost his sight, a 93-year-old World War II veteran relied on his wife to read to him. But then she died, and his world got very small until he turned to the Lions Club for help. Bob LaFrance, a Lions Club member for 45 years and head of...

Does Georgetown Have a Cancer Cluster?

GEORGETOWN – The town’s Health Director has asked the state Department of Public Health to investigate whether the higher-than-normal number of cases here could be a cancer cluster. Health Director William Holt delivered a report to the SelectBoard last week that said...

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5th Annual New England Hot Sauce Fest Raises Record $18,546 for Local Marine Conservation

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — The 5th Annual New England Hot Sauce Fest brought approximately 2,000 ticketed guests to Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth for a day of hot sauce, food, music, family fun, and some seriously intense pepper challenges — while raising a record...

Free Speech Violated? At What Cost to the Town?

GEORGETOWN – Kevin Wood is preparing to sue this town for then- SelectBoard chair Robert Hoover having him removed from a board meeting last spring when Wood criticized the chair and the town administrator. Wood said in the televised SelectBoard meeting, “If the Board...