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Champlain College - Trustee's List Elizabeth Chadbourne of Rowley, majoring in Cyber Networking & Cybersecurity Champlain College - Dean's List Ava Chen of Boxford Rose Davis of Newburyport Andrew Genualdo of Amesbury Aidan Pasek of Byfield Parker Rogers of...
NEWBURYPORT – The Newburyport Black History Initiative (NBHI) unveiled Sunday its latest informative plaque to inform and honor the black domestic workers who worked and lived in the city, The NBHI, which has erected 11 informative plaques around the city honoring...
by Mary Martin President & Founder, NEER, North Inc. WEST NEWBURY – Valentine’s Day always reminds me of the broken-hearted horses I’ve been privileged to help over the years. As founder and president of New England Equine Rescue North, a small non-profit in West...
City and town finance managers and finance committees got their first look at anticipated state funding for next year's budgets, when the Massachusetts’s governor recently unveiled her budget proposal for FY26. The currently proposed state spending of approximately...
Wednesday, February 12, 7:30 PM Hilton Senior Center, 43 Lafayette Road, Salisbury, Mass. This month's meeting will feature two brief talks by Roundtable members. "How Joshua Chamberlain Faced Down an Insurrection at the Maine State Capitol in 1880" and "The Role of...
HAVERHILL – The Pentucket Bank Charitable Foundation has committed $50,000 over five years to the Merrimack Valley Food Bank to support the construction of its new food distribution center. This major project aims to raise $7.8 million to expand the organization’s...
Some Winter Sports Happen Indoors! Photos by Peter McClelland
AMESBURY – Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), came to the Costello Senior Center last week. About a dozen senior residents listened enthusiastically to Chris Torres of Salisbury Beach explain how the government and...
NEWBURYPORT – Mark Rickey's wind turbine, solar panels and a biomass boiler have long been examples of green manufacturing here. But earlier this month, wind and rain caused a container of hydraulic fluid on the turbine to spill into its catch basin, polluting the...
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