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Store Shout-Out: Cumberland Farms Ipswich Johnathan Jodoin (L) and Andy Homas (R), manager of Cumberland Farms Ipswich display a recent copy of The Town Common which they make available to customers. Drop by say "Hey, I saw you in The Town Common!" (Photo by Julianne...
IPSWICH − The Ipswich Fire Department will provide proven fire safety lessons and resources to both students and seniors this year thanks to $9,326 in state grant funding. Ipswich Fire will receive a $6,381 grant to fund the SAFE program, and a $2,945 grant to fund...
GEORGETOWN − Our Neighbors’ Table (ONT) has opened its fourth free integrated market in partnership with the Georgetown Council on Aging, providing more healthy food for residents struggling with food insecurity. The Georgetown market is open Mondays and Wednesdays...
Calvin E. Cockman, 79, passed away on Thursday, April 30, 2026. He was the husband of Suzanne (Stankus) Cockman. Calvin was born in Salina, Kansas on March 18, 1947. He was the son of the late Willie and Eva (Goens) Cockman. He was employed as a line worker in the...
RAIN OR SHINE: 10 AM THRU 3 PM, 3 Larkspurk Circle, GEORGETOWN What are we selling? If it's not listed here "we probably don't got it." We do have a good variety of "stuff." BEDROOM STUFF: A one-year-old DELUXE KING SIZE BED (sadly we must part with it because we are...
GROVELAND − The Groveland Garden Club invites you to their Annual Plant Sale to be held at The Little Red Schoolhouse, located at the corner of Broad and Main Street in Groveland, on Saturday, May 16, from 8:30 a.m. until 12 noon!
SATURDAY, MAY 16 at 10 AM Hands-on Pruning Workshop Join Instructor Jennifer Kettell, consulting arborist from Radiant Leaf Pruning, for a hands-on workshop on pruning using the bushes in the landscape at the library. Flowering shrubs can be a bit more complicated...
Please join us at the Merrimac Brewing Company on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 7 PM for a WNRTC Meeting and Social. Please bring your friends. Beer on tap from the best brewer in town. Donations to the West Newbury Republican Town Committee for the room are greatly...
NOTES BETWEEN PRINTED EDITIONS The Town Common's Sr. Reporter Stewart Lytle is working on a story for next week's edition about a member of Georgetown's Select Board questioning in colleagues at their meeting earlier this week regarding an "abundance" of outside work...
Editor’s Note: Rylee’s last name is being withheld PLUM ISLAND TURNPIKE – At seven years old, Rylee W. remembers calling out a greeting to the Pink House whenever her family drove by it to their Plum Island home. She loved to see the birds on the roof of the...
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