This month, purchase Breast Cancer Awareness Stamps from your local post office, including from Karyn at the Groveland Post Office. Help fund the fight, find a cure.
Breast Cancer Awareness Stamps
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Seed Saving Lecture at the Rowley Public Library Tues. Oct. 28 6:30 P.M.
Seed Saving Lecture at the Rowley Public Library The Rowley Library will host Gretel Anspach, a Trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and a Lifetime Master Gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, on Tuesday, October 28 at...
New Record Set at Topsfield Fair Hot Dog Eating Contest
TOPSFIELD, MA – Robert McGee of Rockaway, NY, won the 7th annual Topsfield Fair Hot Dog Eating Contest on Saturday, eating 13 quarter-pound hot dogs (the equivalent of 3.5 pounds) in buns in the allotted 7-minute time. He set a new record, beating the old record set...
Sand Mining Is Not Farming
GEORGETOWN, MA – Sand mining at the 100-year-old Zibell Farm has led to a property tax change. The Board of Assessors ruled last week that the 5 acres of the 30-acre property no longer qualify for reduced farm taxes, saying the land was converted into a sand and...
Saving People: One Animal at a Time
BOXFORD, MA – August 29 is a date that changed the life direction of Cynthia Sweet, who founded and heads Sweet Paws Rescue. Twenty years ago on that date, Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest storms to hit the U.S., overwhelmed the New Orleans’ levees and flooded...
Is SelectBoard Becoming ‘Dysfunctional?’
GEORGETOWN, MA – SelectBoard member Laura Repplier told Mike Donahue, another SelectBoard member, she can no longer work with him without a third-party being present. On Sept. 10, Repplier emailed him: “Mike, your initiation of this conversation and tenor of your...
Newburyport Illume Book Store ‘Kiss and Tell Book Club’ Features Love in War by Stewart Lytle
NEWBURYPORT, MA – The Kiss and Tell Book Club at the Illume Book Store in Newburyport read and discussed Stewart Lytle’s Spanish Civil War novel, Love in War. Seated from left are Erin Tennis, club leader, Stewart and Melissa Wilkinson. Standing from left are Katie...
Town of Boxford Earns AAA Bond Rating from S&P Global Ratings
BOXFORD, MA – The Town of Boxford is proud to announce that S&P Global Ratings has assigned its highest possible credit rating — AAA — to the Town’s $18.64 million General Obligation Municipal Purpose Loan Bonds, Series 2025. The rating, issued on September 25,...
Boxford General Obligation Bonds Net 3.789%
BOXFORD, MA – Boxford Town Treasurer Ellen Guerin announced that the Town received competitive bids from bond underwriters on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, for an $18,030,000 25-year general obligation bond issue. Piper Sandler & Co. was the winning bidder on the...
