by Stewart Lytle | Mar 5, 2024 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – Massachusetts, jokingly nicknamed Taxachusetts for its long history of high taxes, took steps this year to lower the provide $1 billion in tax relief for businesses, families, rents and two programs to help seniors, 60 and 65 years old and older. During the...
by Stewart Lytle | Mar 5, 2024 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – The River Valley Charter School is looking for a new director following Jonnie Lyn Evans’ announcement Friday that she will leave the school in June after helping found it 25 years ago and serving in its administration for the last 11 years. “While there is...
by Ava Moeckel | Mar 5, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Community News, Featured
NEWBURYPORT – The Newburyport Arts Collaborative brings to the Firehouse Center for the Arts some of Disney’s most popular characters in Frozen Jr. Over six shows, two different casts of 60 local students will perform the stage adaptation of the Broadway musical...
by Stewart Lytle | Feb 27, 2024 | Community News, Featured
NEWBURYPORT – The Merrimack Valley Transit Authority (MEVA) and city leaders will hold a forum Thursday on proposed changes to the city’s bus routes designed to appease unhappy residents on two streets near Ana Jaques Hospital. The proposed change will eliminate...
by Stewart Lytle | Feb 27, 2024 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – At a time when local schools are facing tough challenges with declining enrollment, lower revenues and rising costs, the Massachusetts Assn. of School Committees (MASC) named Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr from Gloucester to be its educator of the year....
by Ava Moeckel | Feb 27, 2024 | Business, Community News, Featured, News, Support Local Businesses
On International Women’s Day next week, the North Shore Women’s Connect (NSWC) is hosting a conference designed to help women overcome personal and professional barriers. The conference will feature 19 speakers, women from different races, ethnicities, industries,...
