Black History Initiative Wins National Award

NEWBURYPORT – To educate tourists and residents about this city’s largely unknown black history, new plaques have sprung up all over downtown. They tell the stories of an African American neighborhood, about activists who worked against slavery and of ordinary...

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Sunset Cruise for Ukraine

PLUM ISLAND – The Captain’s Fishing Parties & Blue River Diamond’s sail the Merrimack River, not the Dnipro River, but on Aug. 18, there will be a sunset cruise to raise money to help Ukraine’s desperate population. Nova Kahovka for Life, Inc., a Newburyport-based...

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Yankee Homecoming Comes to Town

NEWBURYPORT – New Orleans has Mardi Gras. San Antonio has Fiesta, week long, citywide parties that hosst colorful events, concerts, parades and sometimes fireworks. This old port city on the Merrimack River enjoys Yankee Homecoming, which starts Saturday, and ends...

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Summer Sunset Learning Series

Tinkerhaus Community Makerspace, a non-profit, all ages makerspace in Newburyport is offering a Summer Sunset Series. Each class will be taught by Peter Story and will be from 6-7:30 pm at our 3 Graf Road location. JULY 15 Second Step Electronics for age 10+ Students...

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Swimmer Safety with Sewage Sensing

MERRIMACK RIVER – What does the Merrimack and the Seine flowing through Paris during this summer’s Olympics have in common? For more than a century, the Seine and the Merrimack have been so polluted with raw sewage and industrial waste, humans and their animals were...

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Newburyport Fire Department Extinguishes Basement Fire

NEWBURYPORT — Fire Chief Stephen Bradbury III reports that the Newburyport Fire Department extinguished a basement fire on Tuesday afternoon. On Tuesday, June 4, at approximately 3:12 p.m., Newburyport Fire was called to 25 Duffy Drive for a report of a structure...

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