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NEWBURYPORT – While walking to a friend’s house with her dog and older brother a few days ago, Charlotte Bogorad watched an ambulance and fire truck with flashing lights pull up at a nearby home. “I saw it was the house my brother Will’s teacher lived in,” Charlotte...
REGIONAL – Voters were in a spending mood this spring as they approved property tax overrides in several towns at Town Meetings and at the polls. They also approved overrides for the Triton Regional School District’s budget and a debt exclusion to build a proposed...
NEWBURYPORT – The Pink House was demolished March 11 by its last owner, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, but the community continues to recognize the efforts of the non-profit group of indefatigable volunteers, the Supporters of the Pink House (STPH), who tried...
REGIONAL – Town Meetings have been busy this spring approving large and small changes. In Ipswich, Water Department Director Vicki Halmen told the Ipswich select board that the estimated cost of the new water treatment plant has increased from $35 million to $50...
GEORGETOWN: Great pancakes, sausages, eggs, and all the fixings and neighborly friendship was served up at this year's Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast at Georgetown's Perley Elementary School. Fire Chief Matt McKay (center) focus on flip-time!
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), under the Trump administration, has proposed a new federal rule that would take away habitat protections for endangered and threatened species. This comes soon after the demolition of the Pink House, seen by many as a symbol...
REGIONAL – Last week, the Division of Marine Fisheries is enacted several changes to the commercial summer flounder management program for 2025. The changes are designed to increase the quota available to the inshore summertime fishery, maximize this resource’s value...
AMESBURY: Jessica Cortez named to the Troy University Chancellor's List. Piper Brown was named to the Dean's List at Emerson College. Safiya Tarbell elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi BOXFORD: Valentina Knowles, was named to the Dean's List...
DANVERS – Salem State University students Alanna Niemczura and David Spalding-Aguirre are discovering 19th and 20th century artists from Danvers. Last semester they both participated in a research project for Associate Professor of Art History Gretchen Sinnett’s The...
GEORGETOWN – Residents are expected to go to the Penn Brook School on Monday, May 12, 2025, to vote for or against a proposed $6+ million Proposition 2/12 override. [Update: The override passed at town meeting, as it has in the past. 422 residents voted in favor, 64...
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