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GEORGETOWN – Town Administrator Orlando Pacheco was rated “satisfactory” (meets expectations), down from “above satisfactory” (exceeds expectations) by the SelectBoard in his annual performance review. After the election next week, when the SelectBoard will have at...
REGIONAL – The Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce is creating the Georgetown and Groveland Business Alliance to help solve challenges faced by small businesses, retailers and professional service firms. The Haverhill chamber has already established a similar group...
The Georgetown Municipal Light Department has earned the American Public Power Association’s Safety Award of Excellence for safe operating practices in 2025. The utility earned a Diamond Award in the category for utilities with 9,600 worker-hours of annual worker...
by Lonnie Brennan GEORGETOWN − Twenty-three members of the Thompson family, not counting a nephew who led the processsion, somberly filed out of St. Mary's Catholic Church last Saturday. We had all been doing OK during the funeral mass, that is, until the...
Georgetown voters are being asked to consider something the town has never done before: an underride. Statewide, only 24 underrides have been attempted - and every one of them has passsed. Several months ago, I became aware of bill coming before the legislature...
by Lonnie Brennan GEORGETOWN − Called home to reunite with his bride Catherine ("Buffy"), Georgetown's longest-serving selectman of recent memory passed on April 14, 2026 at the age of 93. Mr. Thompson, long-retired from political life, will be remembered by many, as...
Georgetown voters are being asked to consider something the town has never done before: an underride. Statewide, only 24 underrides have been attempted - and every one of them has passsed. Several months ago, I became aware of bill coming before the legislature...
GEORGETOWN – Police here have issued only one permit for waterskiing on the 88-acre Pentucket Pond, but it was about as murky as the pond water whether the town had authority to issue even that permit. With waterskiing season approaching, the Select Board met last...
Submitted by Martin Fucio The North Shore Players, a community theater in Danvers, presents the comedy-murder-mystery “Drop Dead!” A cast of has-been actors, led by an insane director, is trying to stage a murder-mystery. Then the real murders happen. It’s at Hogan...
To the Editor: Georgetown Town Administrator Orlando Pacheco engaged an outside law firm over a year ago to counteract Town Counsel KP Law’s opinion that only the Conservation Commission has the authority to hire/terminate the Conservation Commission agent. He never...
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