by Stewart Lytle | Sep 18, 2024 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – Local governments have less than four months to comply with Section 3A of the state Zoning Act, which mandates communities to create new zoning for multi-family housing in hopes of stemming the shortage of affordable housing in eastern Massachusetts. Here...
by The Town Common | Sep 18, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Community News, Featured, Newburyport
HisTOURy is excited to continue hosting guided tours of historic buildings around Essex County this fall! HisTOURy is a nonprofit whose mission is to promote the appreciation and preservation of historic buildings in communities throughout New England and New York. On...
by The Town Common | Sep 18, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Newburyport
The Exchange Club of Newburyport erected a Field of Honor at Bartlett Mall as a place for remembrance and reflection of the events of September 11, 2001 the men and women of the United States Military who serve, or have served, our Nation; first responders, aid...
by Ava Moeckel | Sep 18, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – The award-winning historical fiction novel, Love in War, by The Town Common reporter Stewart Lytle, is now available at both bookstores in Newburyport: the long-established Jabberwocky in the Tannery and Illume Bookstore on Market Square. The novel,...
by The Town Common | Sep 18, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Boxford, Business, Community News, Featured, Rowley, Topsfield
GLOUCESTER – More than 320 thrift fashionistas and hunger-relief supporters attended the sold out The Open Door Thrift the Runway Fashion Show presented by its thrift store, Second Glance, on Sunday at The Cut. The event aligned with New York Fashion Week and Hunger...
by The Town Common | Sep 11, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Community News, Featured, Newburyport
NEWBURYPORT – Louis Tyree would have been amazed if he could have watched Mayor Sean Reardon and state Rep Dawne Shand honor him and several of his descendants last weekend with an interpretative sign that described his life. As a young man, the son of a black soldier...
