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...
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Fight To Rebuild Ipswich & Triton School Buildings
REGIONAL – The superintendents of Ipswich and Triton schools were disappointed that the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) did not invite their districts this year to apply for funding to rebuild their deteriorating school buildings. Both Ipswich’s Dr....
Whittier Building Vote Set for January
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...
Hope For Saving the Pink House
NEWBURY — The standing room only crowd of supporters for the Pink House who gathered last week at Pita Hall were given some reason not to abandon hope that the iconic house might be saved. “It’s not over yet,” said Matt Hillman, manager of the Parker River Refugee,...
A Bountiful Harvest
NEWBURY – To make Thanksgiving special, the First Parish Newbury Food Pantry had its busiest day of the year Friday, delivering and handing out turkeys along with this week’s bags of food it delivers or are picked up for 750 area households. On the last delivery day...
New Whittier Building Hits a Buzz Saw
REGIONAL – Whittier Tech Supt. Maureen Lynch last week ran into a wall with fewer cracks than her school has as she tried to persuade town and city officials in the Whittier District to support the proposed $440 million new school building. “We have to do something,”...
“Joyful Watercolors” Found in Newbury
NEWBURY - Watercolor Interest Group of the Newburyport Art in conjunction with the Newbury Public Library, Byfield will be hosting “Joyful Watercolors” an exhibition of watercolors at the Newbury Public Library Nov. 21 through to Jan. 7, 2024. Twenty-one members of...
Pink House Supporters Blindsided
NEWBURY - When U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced last week that it planned to demolish the beloved Pink House on the Plum Island Turnpike, its strongest supporters were completely blindsided. The leaders of the Support the Pink House (STPH), a non-profit...
PI Grille Owner To Face Criminal Charges
PLUM ISLAND – Francis Broadbery, owner of the now closed Plum Island Grille, will face a magistrate Nov. 15 to determine if he will be charged with malicious destruction of property at the grille estimated by a private contractor to be $192,000. The Newbury Police...
Battle Brewing Over New Whittier Building
REGIONAL – A battle that may pit the residents of Haverhill against 10 other North Shore cities and towns is erupting over who will pay for the proposed new building for the Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School. Whittier Supt. Maureen Lynch is making the...
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