by Kay Lee Ogden This week’s Business Spotlight shines on Boxford House of Pizza, located at 256 Georgetown Road in Boxford, Mass., located at the Meeting Place Plaza — a wonderful local restaurant that has been serving the area for approximately 30 years. The...
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New River Run Bank Senior V.P
HAVERHILL − River Run Bancorp, MHC is pleased to announce the hiring of Holly Rutko to Senior Vice President, Senior Risk Manager. Holly brings 20 years of banking industry experience to River Run, having previously served as Vice President, Compliance Manager....
Georgetown Explores Pickleball Courts with Online Survey
GEORGETOWN – Selectman Mike Donahue, who also chairs the Parks and Recreation Commission, is conducting a public survey to gauge residents’ interest in using a $1 million donation from Jim Bussing Sr. to build a four-court, indoor pickleball facility. The proposal is...
FaceBook Responses to Pickleball Proposal
Facebook posts and the survey results may differ, but the announcment of a survey by Selectman Mike Donahue, who also chairs the Parks and Recreation Commission brought strong responses, some are included below: Mary-Liz Murray wrote: “Would love to see that donation...
Church Gets Facelift, Shiny New Coat
Yes, drivers are not imagining things as they travel through West Boxford Village and say to themselves 'wow, something changed.' The Second Congregtional Church of Boxford got a new paint job and it looks stellar.
Rowley Honors Purple Heart Recipients
ROWLEY – Chester Bishop was a gunner’s mate on swift boat river patrols in southern Vietnam in December 1968 when he was wounded the first time. The Army, short of soldiers, patched him up and returned him to his boat, where six months later he was injured again by an...
Amesbury Deploys High-Tech Against Potholes ($31,500 to survey potholes)
AMESBURY – The pothole you hit that jolts your jaw and bounces your eyes out their sockets has a new enemy. The city of Amesbury has brought in high-tech resources for the first time to map cracks, holes and other decaying spots in the city’s 74 miles of streets. That...
God Is Not Through with Newburyport’s Malcolm Carnwath
NEWBURYPORT – Malcolm Carnwath was a Realtor and a respected historic preservationist with deep roots in his beloved Newburyport and Portsmouth. But Carnwath probably prefers to be thought of more as a Jazz pianist. As a long-time member of this city’s historical...
Aulson Offers Cleanup/Plowing of Community Gardens
GEORGETOWN − In an e-mail to the town, Alan Aulson (Great Rock Farm, Goats-to-Go, ...) has offered to help restore the Community Gardens on Andover Street to their prior splendor. With the majority of the garden plots abandoned and overgrown, extensive cleanup is...
Georgetown Town Administrator Attacks Critics in a Blog
GEORGETOWN – Town Administrator Orlando Pacheco has created a blog on the platform SubStack. He used one of his first posts to attack his critics, which includes this newspaper that printed letters from former Conservation Commission staff members. In last week’s...
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