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PETER McClelland PHOTO: Wildcats Captains with the 2025 Massachusetts Vocational Softball Championship Trophy Left to right: Ainsley Rousseau, Kayden Ouellette, Kaylee Habib, Cali Moore Whittier Tech won the Vocational State Championship 5-1 vs Greater Lawrence Tech at Whittier

Wildcats Captains with the 2025 Massachusetts Vocational Softball Championship Trophy Left to right: Ainsley Rousseau, Kayden Ouellette, Kaylee Habib, Cali Moore - Photo: Peter McClelland Whittier Tech won the Vocational State Championship 5-1 vs Greater Lawrence Tech...

Newburyport Lantern Festival Returns to Bartlett Mall this Weekend

NEWBURYPORT – The Newburyport Lantern Festival will be held this Saturday, June 28, at Bartlett Mall. Come launch a lantern in honor of a memory or hope for the future. The annual festival, which promotes ovarian awareness cancer, begins at 6:30 p.m. with the...

Steven P. Rosenthal’s Gift Continues to Give Free Swim Lessons Across North Shore and Cape Ann through Northeast Arc’s Saving Lives Swim Program

REGIONAL – It is summer, when families love to head to the beaches and pools. For safety, every child, whether he or she have disabilities or not, should know how to swim. Northeast Arc, a not-for-profit organization that helps children and adults with disabilities...

‘Remembering the Women Who Raised America’

NEWBURYPORT – A new interpretative sign was dedicated last week on Juneteenth to honor Black domestic workers who worked historically in Newburyport, with special recognition given to Caroline C. Cottrell. The title of this interpretative sign was “Remembering the...

GEORGETOWN: Beaver Deceivers?

Caroline Kipling of Georgetown has offered to have Skip Lisle from beaverdeceivers.com install Beaver Deceivers at some of Georgetown's problematic sites prone to flooding. Caroline had reached out to the Georgetown Conservation Commission and was directed to...

Manchester Essex Regional Middle School Grade 8 Civics Students Present Projects at State Civics Showcase

MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA Two groups of Grade 8 students from Manchester Essex Regional Middle School (MERMS) attended and presented projects at the State Civics Showcase at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston last month. Each spring, the Massachusetts Department of...

GROVELAND: Quick Updates!

By Michael Dempsey Special to The Town Common Recycling New 96-gallon recycling carts were approved in the 2026 budget by the Annual Town Meeting. The wheeled carts will make it easier to get recycled materials to the curb each week, keep the materials dry and...

GROVELAND TOWN MEETING NOTES

By Michael Dempsey Special to The Town Common About 120 residents gathered at the Elmer Bagnall School on Monday April 28 for our Groveland Annual Town Meeting. The meeting started at 6:30 pm as scheduled without a plea for residents to come to meet the quorum of 100....

Summer Concert Series on the Rowley Library lawn First event Wednesday, July 2, 6:30PM

The Rowley Public Library is offering a Summer Concert Series: live family-friendly music events Wednesday evenings in the month of July. Bring a blanket or chair and relax on their beautiful front lawn while enjoying great local musicians. Free frozen treats will be...

Legally Blonde: The Musical

NEWBURYPORT – The Firehouse Center for the Arts is thrilled to announce its summer Mainstage production of Legally Blonde: The Musical, running July 4 through 27, 2025. With book by Heather Hach and music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, this...

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PETER McClelland PHOTO: Wildcats Captains with the 2025 Massachusetts Vocational Softball Championship Trophy Left to right: Ainsley Rousseau, Kayden Ouellette, Kaylee Habib, Cali Moore Whittier Tech won the Vocational State Championship 5-1 vs Greater Lawrence Tech at Whittier

Newburyport Lantern Festival Returns to Bartlett Mall this Weekend

Steven P. Rosenthal’s Gift Continues to Give Free Swim Lessons Across North Shore and Cape Ann through Northeast Arc’s Saving Lives Swim Program

‘Remembering the Women Who Raised America’

GEORGETOWN: Beaver Deceivers?

Manchester Essex Regional Middle School Grade 8 Civics Students Present Projects at State Civics Showcase

GROVELAND: Quick Updates!

GROVELAND TOWN MEETING NOTES

Summer Concert Series on the Rowley Library lawn First event Wednesday, July 2, 6:30PM

Legally Blonde: The Musical

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