by The Town Common | Feb 12, 2025 | Community News, Featured, Newburyport, Sports
NEWBURYPORT – For the 125 million tennis balls that Americans throw away each year, there has to be a better solution than dumping them in landfills and generating 20,000 tons of methane gas. To test if Recycleballs.org., a Vermont-based, non-profit organization, has...
by Stewart Lytle | Feb 12, 2025 | Community News, Featured, Georgetown
GEORGETOWN – The residents of this town are likely to face difficult choices this spring in deciding if and how they will pay for a proposed $6 million property tax increase. Town officials – the SelectBoard, the Finance Advisory Board and the Town Administrator –...
by Stewart Lytle | Feb 12, 2025 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – In a decisive win statewide, Massachusetts voters made clear that they do not want high schools to require that their students pass the MCAS standardized test to qualify for graduation. What is now not clear is what replaces the MCAS test. To fill the...
by Stewart Lytle | Feb 12, 2025 | Amesbury, Boxford, Byfield, Community News, Danvers, Essex, Featured, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton-Wenham, Hampton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Merrimac, New Hampshire, Newbury, Newburyport, Portsmouth, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Seabrook, Topsfield, Wenham, West Newbury
NEWBURYPORT – The Newburyport Black History Initiative (NBHI) unveiled Sunday its latest informative plaque to inform and honor the black domestic workers who worked and lived in the city, The NBHI, which has erected 11 informative plaques around the city honoring...
by The Town Common | Feb 12, 2025 | Community News, Rowley, Secondary
Catherine “Irma” (Wilson) Barrett of Rowley passed away on January 31, 2025, with family that never left her side. She was married to Daniel G. Barrett for 57 years prior to his passing in 2013. Irma was the daughter of the late John F. and Irene (Whitty)...
