REGIONAL – Why celebrate St. Patrick’s Day only one day a year? How about all month long, beginning this weekend? The Belleville Roots Music Series is opening St. Paddy’s Month this Sunday, March 5, “a wee bit early,” the concert series announcement said, with the...
Community News
Making Pirate Booty
AMESBURY – On the second floor of CI Works, which houses dozens of small manufacturing firms, Charles Doyle can be found in a well-lit room, surrounded by history books and strange-looking machines, replicating ancient coins from Biblical, Roman and Greek times. A new...
Whittier Tech Building Committee Approves Proposal to Build New School for $422.3 million
HAVERHILL – The Whitter Tech Building Committee is pleased to share that members have voted unanimously to pursue construction of a new school building to best deliver a 21st century technical education to students. Whittier Tech opened in 1973, and its last...
Howard Fairweather, Beloved Husband, Father, Banker, Builder
NEWBURYPORT – Howard Fairweather, who died of heart failure at age 84 a few days after the New Year, cast a long shadow not only in the Boston banking world, but as chair of his hometown historical commission and a builder of Japonika, an exotic Japanese house and...
Bruins Skating Faster on North Shore-made Blades
AMESBURY – If your favorite Boston Bruin seems to be faster this season and looking less fatigued in the third period, it might be because he is skating on an experimental titanium blade that is about half the weight of stainless-steel blades and slides smoother...
Letter to the Editor: Priorities: Education not a New Town Hall
Dear Mr. Editor: The Covid 19 pandemic should have been a wakeup call for Newbury officials to get their priorities right. Rushing into building a new town hall should not be our first priority. Triton has been hit with a double whammy. It saw its students get...
Amesbury Police Department Investigating Alleged “Swatting” Incident at Amesbury High School
AMESBURY — Police Chief Craig Bailey and Superintendent of Schools Elizabeth McAndrews report that the school day was disrupted Monday after an alleged act of “swatting.” The Amesbury Police Department and other law enforcement agencies are actively investigating...
Merrimac Fire Department Extinguishes Garage Fire
MERRIMAC — Chief Larry Fisher reports that the Merrimac Fire Department extinguished a garage fire at a home on Brandy Brow Road. On Wednesday, Feb. 15, at approximately 4:55 p.m., the Merrimac Fire Department received a 911 call reporting a fire in an attached garage...
Trade Alan Truck Stop To Be Redeveloped
AMESBURY – What To Do With an Old Truck Stop? The city of Amesbury is taking the next step to find out. It is asking for proposals from private developers for how best to redevelop the once popular Trader Alan’s Truck Stop on Pond View Avenue near Interstate 495. The...
Newbury Town Hall Fight
NEWBURY – Politics are heating to a boil here this spring with an upcoming Town Meeting on April 25 where residents are expected to spar over the proposed new, multi-million-dollar Town Hall. The Board of Selectmen election will follow on May 9 where two seats will be...
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