by Stewart Lytle | Feb 6, 2024 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – After a plan to finance a new Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School suffered a crushing defeat last month, the school administration and the North Shore communities it serves are re-thinking it path forward. Whittier, which teaches 1,250...
by Stewart Lytle | Feb 6, 2024 | Community News, Featured
PLUM ISLAND TURNPIKE — Driving to Plum Island, it is not unusual to wonder what the iconic Pink House, empty and alone on the edge of the Newbury Salt Marsh, looks like inside. Speculation about the Pink House among its many supporters has always been rampant, but has...
by Stewart Lytle | Feb 6, 2024 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – The churches will be alive with music this winter. Dervish, one of the most celebrated Irish bands, will be back at Belleville Congregational Church for the Belleville Roots concert on March 16, and the Bluebird Performance Venue will hold its next concert...
by Stewart Lytle | Feb 6, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Newburyport
NEWBURYPORT – The city wants to renovate and expand a building on Low Street that once enrolled and trained Massachusetts National Guard soldiers for war into a sleek, indoor-outdoor facility that is safe for children and teenagers to gather, learn and play. Mayor...
by Stewart Lytle | Feb 6, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Newbury
NEWBURY – If you ever enjoyed a cocktail at the Plum Island Grille watching the sun set over the marsh, you’ve had a taste of the joy might bring of calling that space your own. The Grille at 2 Sunset Dr. on the western edge of the island is closed, and Realtor Frank...
by Ava Moeckel | Jan 30, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Topsfield
TOPSFIELD – The Topsfield Fair, the nation’s oldest fair, has been named one of 11 UP-STAND Family-Friendly Awards in 2023. Awarded annually by UP-STAND, the Family-Friendly Awards celebrate accessibility and changing norms associated with family-friendliness at...
