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NEWBURYPORT – Have you ever attended a book sale at a local library? If you have, you know that great finds await you. If you haven't well, now is the time! The Friends of the Newburyport Public Library (FOL) announces that the 49th Great Old Book Sale will take place...
NEWBURYPORT – Culinary geniuses Michael Nichols, and his partner, French Chef Delphin Gomes, hold the 2026 Town Common Newspaper calendar in their new chocolate shop, M. Cacao. Stop in the shop at 37 Market Square where the chocolates and art bars are both beautiful...
Bishop Fenwick High School has announced its second quarter honor roll, recognizing students who demonstrated outstanding academic achievement. The honor roll is determined by calculating the unweighted grade point average across all major courses, with students...
NEWBURY – The Newbury Fire Department and mutual aid partners battled an intense house fire that started early Friday morning, with the home and multiple vehicles being deemed total losses. On Friday, March 13 at 12:58 a.m., the Newbury Fire Department was dispatched...
PLUM ISLAND – The Plum Island Turnpike, which connects the barrier island with the main land, will have to be raised three feet in most places to keep it from being inundated with water from the rising Merrimack River and the Atlantic Ocean. But improvements to the...
by Ilene Harnch-Grady YWCA Greater Newburyport NEWBURYPORT – YWCA Greater Newburyport is pleased to announce that construction has progressed far enough on our newest affordable housing program and hosted a “Topping Off” ceremony, March 3 at 1:00 at YWCA Residences at...
TOPSFIELD, Mass. – Northeast Harvest, a Buy Local Program representing almost 400 farms in Essex and Middlesex counties and supported by the Essex Agricultural Society, will host its 2026 Agricultural Conference on March 19th at the Topsfield Fairgrounds. Northeast...
NEWBURYPORT - Newburyport Art (NAA) introduces Field Notes: Art + Science. Artwork in this exhibit engages with scientific ideas, methods, data, discoveries, or technologies, through direct collaboration with science or through personal, conceptual interpretation. It...
TOPSFIELD, Mass. – Northeast Harvest, a Buy Local Program representing almost 400 farms in Essex and Middlesex counties and supported by the Essex Agricultural Society, will host its 2026 Agricultural Conference on March 19th at the Topsfield Fairgrounds. Northeast...
NEWBURY – The annual winter tournament at the Newbury Golf Center is in rare company as one of only three other golf tournaments, led by the 1962 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, that had to postpone their conclusion because of a snow storm. The Newbury Golf Center’s...
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