Newburyport

NEWBURYPORT – If you want the 65th Yankee Homecoming to be the best ever, buy a Yankee Homecoming flag for your porch, volunteer to collect donations carrying a bucket at the Sunday parade or just buy a ticket to Brewfest. Yankee Homecoming, an annual nine-day event...

NEWBURYPORT — The replica of a ship that circumnavigated the globe 800 years ago will spend 10 days next month berthed at the waterfront as part of the Custom House’s Newburyport Maritime Days. The original Nao Trinidad, a 200-ton Tall Ship, sailed around the world...

NEWBURYPORT – The sounds of new homes being built wafted across Auburn Street last week as a group of historians, museum leaders and city employees watched Ed Balsky search for long-dead bodies on a hillside of the 18th Century Oak Hill Cemetery. In an area of the...

REGIONAL – Major Gen. Gordon Granger could hardly have imagined that 156 years after he delivered the news that slaves were free to the people of Texas, the event would be turned into a national holiday called Juneteenth. Nor could the Union general and hero of the...

NEWBURYPORT — The history of African Americans in this city has been what Northeastern University professor Dr. Kabria Baumgartner recently described as stories that “have been erased or misplaced.” Now thanks to the Newburyport Black History Initiative, a dozen...

NEWBURYPORT – Mayor Sean Reardon called the dozen students and adults who won the city’s Human Rights Commission’s Peace prizes this year “good examples for the whole community” for their acts of kindness and inclusiveness. Superintendent Sean Gallagher pronounced...