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Portsmouth, NH - On Sunday, June 6, at 4 p.m. a virtual celebration of the 250th anniversary of Portsmouth Harbor Light Station will take place. The original lighthouse on the site began service on June 8, 1771, making it the first lighthouse north of Boston in the...
MOUNT VERNON, VA — Heritage breeds of livestock are pre-industrial farm animals whose unusual appearances and remarkable qualities take us back to our nation’s agrarian roots — and may show the way to a more sustainable future. Their value as agricultural and cultural...
Boston - The latest release of AARP's Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard shows that both cases and deaths in Bay State nursing homes declined in the four weeks ending April 18, 2021. Although these rates are improving, chronic problems in nursing homes revealed during...
ROWLEY – If you’ve turned north off of Central Street onto State Highway Rte. 1 and said a prayer that a car, blocked from view, was not barreling up the hill at you, help may be on the way. If you have waited on Glen or Central streets hoping for a break in the...
If you have ever watched a local High School sports team play games, you may have noticed Peter McClelland on the sidelines shooting photos. For 20 years, the retired Ipswich seventh grade social studies teacher has been snapping photos of area athletes in action. The...
MERRIMAC – Before officers Stephen Ringuette and Anthony Harris served this community of 6,500 residents as police officers, they served their country during the war in Iraq as members of the Army’s 972 Military Police Co. Officer Lawrence Mittica served as an Army...
NEWBURYPORT – At the end of the annual meeting of the Greater Newburyport’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry last month, David Hall said those words to encourage others as the region emerges from the Pandemic. Hall, whose Hall & Moscow owns and manages residential...
GEORGETOWN – The town’s Planning Board meeting last week might have been billed as An Evening of Dueling Truck videos. Trucks turning a corner do not usually have people mesmerized. But trucks entering onto and exiting the two-lane Carleton Drive to state Rte. 133...
AMESBURY – FlingGolf, which Ipswich resident Alex Van Alen invented in 2012 and is now played on more than 1,200 golf courses in 27 countries, will get a chance to pitch the fast-growing new sport to five potential “Sharks” on the national television show, “Shark...
ROWLEY – A pillar that has held up Town Hall in this historic town will be gone next week. But fear not, Town Clerk Susan Hazen, who is retiring after 21 years, is not going far. She lives across the street from Town Hall. Last week, Susan, who has an encyclopedic...
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