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PLUM ISLAND – Frank Bertolino with North Shore Realty is marketing the site of the former Plum Island Grille as a large home with an accessory apartment or as a multi-family house. Or the now-vacant restaurant, two blocks from the beach, could become a restaurant...
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...
REGIONAL -- Thanks to increased funding from the state legislature, beach goers from Haverhill, Merrimac, Amesbury and Salisbury can take a Merrimack Valley Transit (MeVa) bus to the beach starting Jan. 7. The Sunday service, particularly in the summer months, is...
NEWBURYPORT – The city has installed a new interpretive sign beneath the statue of the esteemed liberator, William Lloyd Garrison, pays tribute to the black activists, who, city planner Geordie Vining said, “made history, but were left out of the history books.” The...
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...
NEWBURY — On a cold December night last week on Plum Island, supporters of the Pink House turned up the heat on the area’s delegation to Congress, particularly U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, to save the federally owned Pink House from demolition. Supporters of the Pink...
NEWBURYPORT -- The latest addition to the shoreline of the Clipper City Rail Trail is a memorial, unveiled Sunday, that is designed to help trail goers remember something many would like to forget, the Covid-19 Pandemic. The circular granite stone, brought from...
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,”...
NEWBURYPORT – The city is raising money to recognize 18 grave sites in the Old Burying Ground that were recently found by ground-penetrating radar. The city and the Newburyport Black History Initiative believe the unmarked graves near Auburn Street were those of 18th...
Newburyport - Hope Community Church will open to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts for the Samaritan’s Purse project. Volunteers are preparing to collect shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 13 – 20. Operation Christmas Child has been...
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