by Stewart Lytle | Jan 9, 2024 | Amesbury, Boxford, Byfield, Community News, Education, Featured, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Ipswich, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Rowley, Salisbury, Topsfield, West Newbury
REGIONAL – Whittier Regional Vocational High School could have allowed each of its 11 cities and towns under state law to decide individually how to fund its share of the $264 million price tag for a new building. Rowley SelectBoard chair Cliff Pierce and other town...
by The Town Common | Jan 2, 2024 | Community News, Georgetown, Secondary
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...
by Stewart Lytle | Dec 26, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Georgetown
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...
by Stewart Lytle | Dec 19, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Georgetown
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...
by Stewart Lytle | Dec 19, 2023 | Boxford, Byfield, Community News, Featured, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Ipswich, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Rowley, Salisbury, Topsfield, West Newbury
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...
by Stewart Lytle | Dec 12, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Georgetown
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...
