Letter to the Editor - Rowley Board of Selectmen on the Whittier Regional Vocational Technical Building Project - On December 13, 2023, the unelected members of the Whittier District School Committee voted to hold a “district-wide” election on their $444.6 million...
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Whittier Could Have Allowed City-Town Voting
REGIONAL – Whittier Regional Vocational High School could have allowed each of its 11 cities and towns under state law to decide individually how to fund its share of the $264 million price tag for a new building. Rowley SelectBoard chair Cliff Pierce and other town...
Fight To Rebuild Ipswich & Triton School Buildings
REGIONAL – The superintendents of Ipswich and Triton schools were disappointed that the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) did not invite their districts this year to apply for funding to rebuild their deteriorating school buildings. Both Ipswich’s Dr....
Whittier Building Vote Set for January
REGIONAL – Town leaders across the North Shore can only hope a blizzard hits Haverhill but not any of the coastal towns on Jan. 23, keeping Haverhill’s residents from voting in the multi-town election to approve a nearly half-billion-dollar new building for the...
New Whittier Building Hits a Buzz Saw
REGIONAL – Whittier Tech Supt. Maureen Lynch last week ran into a wall with fewer cracks than her school has as she tried to persuade town and city officials in the Whittier District to support the proposed $440 million new school building. “We have to do something,”...
Civil War Roundtable of the Merrimack November Meeting
Civil War Roundtable of the Merrimack November Meeting Wed. Nov. 8th, 7:30 to 9:30 PM Hilton Senior Center, 43 Lafayette Road, Salisbury, MA “Grant and Twain: Authors and Friends” Ulysses S. Grant met many famous individuals during his life, but one of them in...
Battle Brewing Over New Whittier Building
REGIONAL – A battle that may pit the residents of Haverhill against 10 other North Shore cities and towns is erupting over who will pay for the proposed new building for the Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School. Whittier Supt. Maureen Lynch is making the...
Whittier Tech Welcomes District Residents to Attend Building Project Information Sessions
REGIONAL – Whittier Tech invites residents in its 11 sending community to learn more about the proposed Whittier Tech Building Project during public information sessions planned in the coming months. Whittier Tech is pursuing construction of a new building to best...
Complete Healthcare, an Invitation
Many call them alternatives to medical care. I think of them as complementary, which means healthcare services you use in addition to seeing your doctor. That is, I’m glad when my pain patients have seen their doctor to rule out conditions I can’t treat, and I refer...
Ray Pike: On the Mend
REGIONAL – Ray Pike, the Salisbury harbormaster for 16 years, was enjoying a scenic hike in the White Mountains last fall along a ridge high enough to see maybe as far as Canada when he stumbled and fell. He ended up in the hospital for weeks and for almost a year...
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