To the editor: During a year that still includes so much worry and difficult times, the true meaning of Thanksgiving was fully illustrated when the Georgetown Kiwanis Club hosted their annual dinner at the Penn Brook School last Saturday. After the annual dinner was...
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Area students make Stonehill College Dean’s List
EASTON - To qualify for the Dean's List, students must have a semester grade point average of 3.50 or better and must have completed successfully all courses for which they were registered. The following students earned a spot on the list. Cailey Bitto of Boxford...
Coastal Trails Coalition completes several additions to the Coastal Trails Network
2021 was another great year for the Coastal Trails Coalition (CTC) with the completion of several showcase additions to the Coastal Trails Network. The CTC celebrated the opening of the 0.2-mile Clipper City Rail Trail connection along the Merrimack River between...
Georgetown Theatre Workshop presents All Because of Agatha by Jonathan Troy
All Because of Agatha, directed by Renee Heusser and produced by Gael Nappa, will be performed at the Perley School on 51 North Street, Georgetown, on November 13th, 14th, 19th, 20th, and 21st. Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. except for the 14th and 21st shows, which are...
Letter to the Editor
TO THE EDITOR: Despite denial by Georgetown’s Planning Board, Mello Corporation continues pursuing its 500-ton transfer station, challenging that decision in court and proceeding with Conservation Commission hearings. At the 10/21 meeting, ConCom members voiced...
Georgetown offers Pacheco a conditional contract as Town Administrator
GEORGETOWN – The Board of Selectmen voted four to zero Wednesday night to make a conditional offer to Orlando Pacheco, the town administrator in Lancaster, who would replace Mike Farrell, this town’s administrator since 2010. Pacheco wowed the selectmen, who...
A Great Spot for Reading
GEORGETOWN — On one of her frequent visits to the Georgetown Peabody Library, Jane Fields overheard a student asking for a copy of the Iliad, only to be told that the library had none. She returned to her home on North Street and found in her attic a copy of Homer’s...
Mello’s Proposal To Build A New Transfer Station Denied
GEORGETOWN – The Planning Board has officially notified Town Clerk Kerri McManus of its unanimous decision to deny the proposal by the G. Mello Disposal Corp. to build a 500-ton transfer station near Interstate 95 on Carleton Drive. Mello has 20 days to appeal the...
The Georgetown Peabody Library hosting The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape –Photographs Of New Americans
The Georgetown Peabody Library is hosting the work of nationally known photographer Mark Chester. His traveling exhibit, The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape–Photographs Of New Americans, is on display from October 1 to October 31, 2021. The exhibit was made...
Public Input on Mello Station Closed
GEORGETOWN – After more than a year and a half of gathering information about G. Mello Disposal Corp.’s proposed new 500-ton transfer station, the town’s Planning Board last week abruptly shut down its fact-finding effort and moved to deliberate at its next meeting on...
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