NEWBURYPORT -- The latest addition to the shoreline of the Clipper City Rail Trail is a memorial, unveiled Sunday, that is designed to help trail goers remember something many would like to forget, the Covid-19 Pandemic. The circular granite stone, brought from...
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Remember, Honor and Teach
ROWLEY -- The Rowley Burial Ground will continue for the third year on Dec. 16 to Remember, Honor and Teach as one of 4,000 locations and more than 2 million volunteers as part of the Wreaths Across America. Wreaths Across America, a free community event, started as a...
Newburyport Adult and Community Education – Online Registration is Open for Winter Classes
Newburyport Adult and Community Education - Online Registration is Open for Winter Classes Newburyport Adult and Community Education announces that online registration is now open for winter classes and holiday gift certificates are now on sale. The winter session...
Georgetown COA Thanks Kiwanis Club for Annual Thanksgiving Dinner
To the Editor, At a time of year when care and compassion is so important, the Georgetown Kiwanis Club illustrated the true meaning of Thanksgiving as they hosted their annual dinner at the Penn Brook School last Saturday. Arriving at 6 a.m. to cook 20 22-pound...
Carleton Road To Be Rebuilt
GEORGETOWN – Traffic using the intersection of state Rte. 133 and a rebuilt Carleton Drive, just west of Interstate 95, will be under substantial scrutiny when the G. Mello Trash Disposal Corp. begins accepting large trucks bringing trash to it large, new station. A...
Hope For Saving the Pink House
NEWBURY — The standing room only crowd of supporters for the Pink House who gathered last week at Pita Hall were given some reason not to abandon hope that the iconic house might be saved. “It’s not over yet,” said Matt Hillman, manager of the Parker River Refugee,...
Sedgwick Named Police Chief
GEORGETOWN — Georgetown resident and Rowley Police captain David Sedgwick will be sworn in as police chief here at 4 p.m. on Thursday. He will succeed Chief Don Cudmore, who has been a Georgetown police officer for 39 years and chief for more than 10 years. Sedgwick,...
A Bountiful Harvest
NEWBURY – To make Thanksgiving special, the First Parish Newbury Food Pantry had its busiest day of the year Friday, delivering and handing out turkeys along with this week’s bags of food it delivers or are picked up for 750 area households. On the last delivery day...
Conservation Commission Chair Resigns
GEORGETOWN – Less than two weeks after the Select Board and the Conservation Commission (ConCom) met to begin ironing out their differences, Select Board chair Amy Smith summoned Carl Shreder and Rachel Bancroft, the ConCom chair and vice chair, to a private meeting...
New Whittier Building Hits a Buzz Saw
REGIONAL – Whittier Tech Supt. Maureen Lynch last week ran into a wall with fewer cracks than her school has as she tried to persuade town and city officials in the Whittier District to support the proposed $440 million new school building. “We have to do something,”...
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