New Parks Plan On a Bumpy Path

NEWBURYPORT — Only in the ninth month of his first year as mayor, Sean Reardon, a former parks commissioner, has run into a buzz saw, proposing to move the care of the city’s 26 much-loved parks to be the fourth division of the Public Services Department alongside...

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March’s Hill ‘Be Courteous’ Sign Back Up

NEWBURYPORT — The “Be Courteous” signs the parks department installed at March’s Hill are back up.  When first put up, one sign, advising the young bicyclists that they were not to dig holes and cut trails through the woods at this city-owned park, was pulled out of...

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A Prohibition Era Haunted Halloween Party

NEWBURYPORT — Come beyond the veil with us to 200-year old Salem Old Town Hall, and reveal a time of the city’s ghostly past, when liquid spirits were drunk in secret and beautiful flappers haunted the halls.  That’s right: IT'S THE ORIGINAL HAUNTED SPEAKEASY PARTY in...

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Belleville Roots Brings Great Music

NEWBURYPORT — If you love folk music, you are in for some memorable evenings this fall at the Belleville Roots Music Series with Molly Tuttle and Tony Trischka leading off with concerts in October.  Tuttle, who broke into playing bluegrass at festivals when she was 11...

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‘Be Courteous’ Sign Ripped Out

NEWBURYPORT — On the previous Friday, the Parks Department staff installed two signs in hopes of ending the Battle of March’s Hill between young bike riders/jump builders and mostly adults who like to hike the hills and live next to it. One of the signs, urging those...

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