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GEORGETOWN — Chief Matt McKay is pleased to announce that the Georgetown Fire Department collected 4,191 toys during its 28th annual Santa Tour, making the department the largest contributor of toys to the Marine Corps Toys for Tots Program in Essex County. Santa...
GEORGETOWN – A few weeks after the town’s Conservation Commission Chair was asked to resign, members of the town’s Community Preservation Committee (CPC) tried to remove its chair. Former SelectBoard member David Twiss, upset with Harry Cortiglia, the veteran chair of...
GEORGETOWN – Carl Shreder, who chaired the town’s Conservation Commission (ConCom) for almost a quarter century, was honored last week by the state Legislature for protecting the town’s environment. A few days after he was asked by SelectBoard chair Amy Smith to...
REGIONAL – Town leaders across the North Shore can only hope a blizzard hits Haverhill but not any of the coastal towns on Jan. 23, keeping Haverhill’s residents from voting in the multi-town election to approve a nearly half-billion-dollar new building for the...
GEORGETOWN – The G. Mello Trash Disposal Corp. has asked the state Land Court to remove the conditions the town’s Planning Board imposed on the 500-ton trash transfer station the company plans to build once it gets town approvals. Mello’s appeal said some of the...
GEORGETOWN – It appears it was not enough to pressure the 25-year veteran chair of the town’s environmental watch dog commission to resign. Critics of the Conservation Commission (ConCom) have turned their sights on the vice chair and possibly other commission members...
To the Editor, At a time of year when care and compassion is so important, the Georgetown Kiwanis Club illustrated the true meaning of Thanksgiving as they hosted their annual dinner at the Penn Brook School last Saturday. Arriving at 6 a.m. to cook 20 22-pound...
GEORGETOWN – Traffic using the intersection of state Rte. 133 and a rebuilt Carleton Drive, just west of Interstate 95, will be under substantial scrutiny when the G. Mello Trash Disposal Corp. begins accepting large trucks bringing trash to it large, new station. A...
GEORGETOWN — Georgetown resident and Rowley Police captain David Sedgwick will be sworn in as police chief here at 4 p.m. on Thursday. He will succeed Chief Don Cudmore, who has been a Georgetown police officer for 39 years and chief for more than 10 years. Sedgwick,...
GEORGETOWN – Less than two weeks after the Select Board and the Conservation Commission (ConCom) met to begin ironing out their differences, Select Board chair Amy Smith summoned Carl Shreder and Rachel Bancroft, the ConCom chair and vice chair, to a private meeting...
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