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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...
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,”...
NEWBURYPORT – The city is raising money to recognize 18 grave sites in the Old Burying Ground that were recently found by ground-penetrating radar. The city and the Newburyport Black History Initiative believe the unmarked graves near Auburn Street were those of 18th...
REGIONAL – Fair Winds Farm in West Newbury has partnered with the Amesbury-based Center for Children and Teen Center (CATCH) to provide equine-based therapy programs for young people. “It seemed like a natural partnership.” said Carolyn Gayler-Romero, CATCH director....
NEWBURY - Watercolor Interest Group of the Newburyport Art in conjunction with the Newbury Public Library, Byfield will be hosting “Joyful Watercolors” an exhibition of watercolors at the Newbury Public Library Nov. 21 through to Jan. 7, 2024. Twenty-one members of...
Newburyport - Hope Community Church will open to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts for the Samaritan’s Purse project. Volunteers are preparing to collect shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 13 – 20. Operation Christmas Child has been...
Dear Editor, Friends and Supporters, Thank you to all those who donated trains to the Wenham Museum over this past year. We had fantastic response to our earlier e-mails seeking donations, which has been a tremendous benefit to the Train Room. If you are cleaning out...
Dear Editor, I just wanted to let you know that I will retire from my position as Director for the Georgetown Council on Aging on November 25. My last day in the office will be November 23. I have been the Georgetown COA Director for the past 17 years. During that...
“The Street Project" Investigates Road Safety Film screening to support regional “MV Vision Zero” effort NEWBURYPORT, MA — Bicycle and pedestrian fatalities in the United States are skyrocketing. In 2021, about 7,500 pedestrians and nearly 1,000 bicyclists were killed...
November Rowley DTC Meeting with Food Collection Rowley - November 14, 2023 — The Rowley Democratic Town Committee will hold its next monthly meeting at the Rowley Public Library, November 14th at 7pm. We will be joined by guest speaker Marcia Hubbard from The Open...
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