by Stewart Lytle | Apr 23, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Georgetown
GEORGETOWN – It’s campaign season for towns that elect Boards of Selectmen. This is usually a hurly burly time on the North Shore when current select board members seek reelection and compete with residents who think they would do a better job governing their town....
by Stewart Lytle | Apr 23, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Community News, Education, Featured, Newburyport
REGIONAL – This year’s Newburyport Literary Festival, which begins on Friday, will be the last time that Victoria Hendrickson, its director, founder and muse, will head the popular event. She leaves the event that attracts some of the best novelists, writers and poets...
by Stewart Lytle | Apr 16, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Newburyport
NEWBURYPORT – By next spring, one of five major entrances to this historic city will likely be transformed from a collection of largely non-descript homes and buildings to four “classic” new homes that will share a dock on the Merrimack River. “Coming across the...
by Stewart Lytle | Apr 16, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Newbury
PLUM ISLAND TURNPIKE – Maybe the non-profit Support the Pink House organization (STPH) could take a page from the Salisbury Historical Commission and propose to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (F&WS) that it license the almost 100-year-old icon while the...
by Ava Moeckel | Apr 16, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Newburyport
REGIONAL – The Greater Newburyport Housing Choice Coalition has invited Rev. Jared Mercer, pastor of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Newburyport, to speak about how the community provided housing for five Afghan refugee families. Rev. Mercer will provide an...
by The Town Common | Apr 16, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Newburyport
Newburyport Literary Festival NEWBURYPORT – The 19th annual Newburyport Literary Festival (NLF) will take place April 26-28, 2024. This year the festival will honor local Newburyport historians Bethany Groff Dorau, Dyke Hendrickson and Ghlee E. Woodworth. “We’re...
