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by Stewart Lytle | May 14, 2025 | Amesbury, Boxford, Byfield, Community News, Featured, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton-Wenham, Hampton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Salisbury, Topsfield, West Newbury
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...
by Ava Moeckel | May 14, 2025 | Amesbury, Arts & Culture, Beverly, Boxford, Byfield, Community News, Danvers, Essex, Featured, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton-Wenham, Hampton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Merrimac, New Hampshire, Newbury, Newburyport, NORTH-HAMPTON, Portsmouth, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Seabrook, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury
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...
by The Town Common | May 14, 2025 | Amesbury, Boxford, Byfield, Community News, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton-Wenham, Hampton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Merrimac, New Hampshire, Newbury, Newburyport, NORTH-HAMPTON, Portsmouth, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Seabrook, Secondary, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury
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...
by The Town Common | May 14, 2025 | Amesbury, Boxford, Byfield, Community News, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton-Wenham, Hampton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Merrimac, New Hampshire, Newbury, Newburyport, NORTH-HAMPTON, Portsmouth, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Seabrook, Secondary, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury
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...
by The Town Common | May 7, 2025 | Amesbury, Arts & Culture, Boxford, Byfield, Community News, Danvers, Education, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton-Wenham, Hampton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Secondary, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury
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...
by The Town Common | May 6, 2025 | Community News, Featured, Gloucester
GLOUCESTER – Chief Eric L. Smith reports that the Gloucester Fire Department extinguished a small fire at a Washington Street home early Saturday morning. On Saturday, April 26, at 5:11 a.m., Gloucester Fire was dispatched to 324 Washington St. following reports of a...