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NEWBURYPORT − Newburyport Bank is pleased to announce the promotion of Amanda Kelcourse to Vice President, Commercial Loan Officer, based out of the Bank’s Main Office at 63 State Street in Newburyport. Kelcourse brings 23 years of banking experience to her role and...
The Tree Commission (TC) and Friends of Newburyport Trees (FoNT) will celebrate Arbor Day on Saturday, April 25th by holding a pruning demonstration and talk at 9:30am at the YWCA, 13 Market Street Labyrinth, Newburyport. Mayor Sean Reardon will read the annual...
MERRIMAC, Mass. − The Purple Sage Potters Offer their work for sale twice a year at Purple Sage Pottery, 3 Mechanic Street in Merrimac. o Twelve local potters will offer a variety of sculptural, decorative, and functional ware on Saturday, May 2nd, from 10-5, with a...
GEORGETOWN – Police here have issued only one permit for waterskiing on the 88-acre Pentucket Pond, but it was about as murky as the pond water whether the town had authority to issue even that permit. With waterskiing season approaching, the Select Board met last...
Submitted by Martin Fucio The North Shore Players, a community theater in Danvers, presents the comedy-murder-mystery “Drop Dead!” A cast of has-been actors, led by an insane director, is trying to stage a murder-mystery. Then the real murders happen. It’s at Hogan...
NEWBURYPORT – Michael Updike, a marvelous sculptor of delicate silver platters, boots and bowls as well as huge granite gravestones, will bring his wit and insights into his father’s mastery of the great American novel to this year’s weekend of celebrating all things...
To the Editor: Georgetown Town Administrator Orlando Pacheco engaged an outside law firm over a year ago to counteract Town Counsel KP Law’s opinion that only the Conservation Commission has the authority to hire/terminate the Conservation Commission agent. He never...
by Mike Dempsey Groveland Farms Groveland was always a farming community. Through the years, as more houses have been built and more people have moved to town, farms have taken on a much smaller role in our community. Do we even have any farms left? We do have some...
‘Whoever afflict us, whatever surround, Life is a voyage that’s homeward bound!’ ~Herman Melville, White Jacket, 1850 Obituary courtesy Katherine Beck. BATH, MAINE – James Melville Whittemore, 76, passed away on Thursday morning, January 22, 2026, at Hillhouse in...
WEST NEWBURY − The West Newbury Water Department will begin its spring hydrant flushing on Friday night, April 17th. The process will start at 8:00pm with hydrants along Main Street from the Groveland town line to the Newburyport town line. Flushing will...
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