by Stewart Lytle | Sep 11, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Community News, Featured, Newbury
NEWBURY – When two vans owned by Global Remediation Services arrived at the Pink House last week and a crew toured the house with Matt Hillman, manager of the Parker River Wildlife Refuge, supporters of the house assumed their worst nightmare – the demolition of the...
by The Town Common | Sep 11, 2024 | Community News, Featured, West Newbury
WEST NEWBURY – Chief Michael Dwyer reports that the West Newbury Fire Department and mutual aid partners participated in the rescue of a Belgian Draft horse. Around noon on Sunday, Sept. 1, West Newbury firefighters responded to 2 Georgetown Road for a report of a...
by Stewart Lytle | Sep 3, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Business, Community News, Education, Featured, Newburyport
NEWBURYPORT – Jen Perry opened Illume, the second bookstore in this small city, on National Independent Bookstore Day. On that day, April 29, 2023, the city’s downtown was humming with the annual Art Walk and even more appropriately with the Newburyport Literary...
by Stewart Lytle | Sep 3, 2024 | Community News, Education, Featured, Georgetown
GEORGETOWN – The Georgetown Education Assn. (GEA) is suing the town’s School Committee in superior court to stop the release of teachers’ personnel records to a private citizen. The school committee, relying on an order from the Supervisor of Records, released the...
by The Town Common | Sep 3, 2024 | Community News, Education, Featured
Interested in aviation, youth leadership, or service to your community? If so, the Civil Air Patrol is for you! If you’re age 12 to 18 and looking for a challenge, join us for an introduction to the Civil Air Patrol, the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary. Come meet our members...
by Stewart Lytle | Sep 3, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Community News, Education, Featured, Newburyport, Secondary
NEWBURYPORT – Louis Tyree was the man any parent would love to have as a son. He grew up in Indiana, where his father was a farmer and fought with the Union Army in the Civil War. His mother was highly literate and imbued her son with a desire for education and to...