A Glowing Night of Community and Remembrance: Thanks to everyone who made the 15th Annual Newburyport Lantern Festival a Beautiful Success. Greater Newburyport Ovarian Cancer Awareness (GNOCA) extends heartfelt thanks to the hundreds of community members who joined us...
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FROM MY GARDEN, by lonnie brennan: POTATO BEETLES
The Town Common Vegetable Garden Tips Potato Beetles There are two ways to help beat the potato beetle: 1. Walk the rows and squish every beetle, and check the underside of the leaves for yellow clusters of tiny eggs. Squish out the eggs. Very time consuming... Straw!...
Mike Lago Remembered
NEWBURYPORT – Michael Lago, probably the oldest, at 92, and much-loved member of the Newburyport Tennis Club, passed away last month. Thanks to his wife, Carol, who introduced him to tennis when he was in his 50s, Mike was a member of Newburyport Tennis Club for more...
SALISBURY BEACH THIS WEEKEND
JULY 3rd Pre 4th of July Beach party - 7:15 - 10 PM JULY 4th: PET PARADE Starts at 6 p.m. JULY 4th: Fourth of July Concert featuring Ft. Billy D & the Rock-Its: 7:30 - 10 PM JULY 5th: Music: Scott Brown and the Diplomats 7:30 - 10 PM ...
Firehouse Center for the Arts – Legally Blonde the Musical,
NEWBURYPORT Firehouse Center for the Arts - Legally Blonde the Musical, Friday, July 8 from 7 - 9 p.m., Sat. July 5, 2 - 4 pm and 7-9 pm., and running through July 18. Tickets/info: firehouse.org
Newburyport Lantern Festival Returns to Bartlett Mall this Weekend
NEWBURYPORT – The Newburyport Lantern Festival will be held this Saturday, June 28, at Bartlett Mall. Come launch a lantern in honor of a memory or hope for the future. The annual festival, which promotes ovarian awareness cancer, begins at 6:30 p.m. with the...
Legally Blonde: The Musical
NEWBURYPORT – The Firehouse Center for the Arts is thrilled to announce its summer Mainstage production of Legally Blonde: The Musical, running July 4 through 27, 2025. With book by Heather Hach and music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, this...
Legally Blonde: The Musical
NEWBURYPORT – The Firehouse Center for the Arts is thrilled to announce its summer Mainstage production of Legally Blonde: The Musical, running July 4 through 27, 2025. With book by Heather Hach and music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, this...
50th Anniversary of Jaws with a trip to ‘Amity Island’
By Gabe DiSaverio Founder of TheSpicyShark.com You ever have a dream that lives in your bones for so long, it feels like a part of who you are? That’s what has been to me since I first saw it at eight years old. The music, the suspense, the characters—Brody, Hooper,...
Plant Matters
by Ida Wye Essex Tech aboriculture accomplished a real milestone this spring when there nascent Maplewood Arboretum was certified. This remarkable achievement for a public education institution will inspire and educate the present and future students and the...
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