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Taxpayers are spending millions of dollars for these and more shiny-new-looking trucks and equipment to spread sand onto Salisbury Beach areas in one of many phases of a replenishment project. Local homeowners had similarly spent hundreds of thousands last winter to...
by Lonnie Brennan This week, we list the lastest posted Parks and Recreation Committees/Commissions/Advisory Committee meeting minutes. Inn our last column, we listed the minutes for the local selectboard and city council meetings in the area. At that time, Hampton...
The Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) is opening a new funding round through the NiSource Charitable Foundation Fund for Merrimack Valley. Grants between $25,000-$200,000 are available to nonprofit organizations in the areas of basic needs and hardship...
Happy New Year! So, how does it feel being back at work? Or, if you are retired, does today feel like any other day? For many people, the New Year is time for resolutions. Gym memberships go up and so do sales of healthier food. I don’t know about you, but I have...
REGIONAL – While attention will inevitably be focused in coming months on what appears to be a year of political chaos in the nation’s capital, 2025 is shaping up to be a busy and contentious year for North Shore residents. Buckle up as the opposition to a proposed...
Civil War Roundtable of the Merrimack January Meeting, January 8, 7:30 PM, Hilton Senior Center, 43 Lafayette Road, Salisbury, Mass. This month's topic will be "Currency in the Civil War" presented by Andrew Andrioloulos & John Manning
ATLANTIC OCEAN – Right whales, one of the world’s most endangered large whale species, may soon have one less threat to their existence, at least in the waters off Massachusetts. The state legislature created an authority to remove abandoned fishing gear from...
Tom Rush is a gifted musician and performer, whose shows offer a musical celebration…a journey into the tradition and spectrum of how music can passionately touch the lives of people everywhere. His distinctive guitar style, wry humor and warm, expressive voice have...
2024: A Tough Year for the Iconic Pink House NEWBURY – It lost windows and portions of the roof, but the Iconic Pink House was remembered at Christmas. Federal officials had roofing and windows removed from the Pink House just in time for the arrival of winter rains,...
This winter, as nearly 500 endangered sea turtles have received rehabilitative care at the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital after being rescued from Cape Cod, an ice sculpture depicting some of the most critically endangered among them, the Kemp’s ridley sea...
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