by Stewart Lytle | Jan 30, 2024 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – After seeing its proposed $446 million building resoundingly defeated last week, the Whittier Regional Vocational Technical District plans to move slowly in developing a new plan to replace its 50-year-old building. “We will take time to reevaluate how we...
by The Town Common | Jan 23, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Georgetown
GEORGETOWN – It is not unusual for a city mayor or chair of the town’s selectboard to end a meeting asking for volunteers to serve on various boards or commissions. There never seems to be enough citizens to go around. But not here in Georgetown, particularly when it...
by Ava Moeckel | Jan 23, 2024 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL — Veterans can now ride free to the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Administration Hospital, 40 miles away, thanks to Merrimack Valley Transit (MeVA). MeVA now provides free door-to-door transportation to and from Bedford Veterans Hospital and its...
by Stewart Lytle | Jan 16, 2024 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – Voters in 11 North Shore cities and towns will go to the polls Tuesday, Jan. 23, to decide if they are willing to pay for a new $444.6 million building for Whittier Vocational Technical High School. In recent weeks, as municipal leaders have become aware of...
by Stewart Lytle | Jan 16, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Community News, Featured
REGIONAL — Marc Clopton calls the Actors’ Studio’s circuitous path from the Tannery Marketplace in Newburyport, where it operated for more than two decades, to its new home on the border of Amesbury and Salisbury “a sojourn.” “I never dreamed it would take so...
by Ava Moeckel | Jan 16, 2024 | Community News, Featured, Seabrook
SEABROOK, NH — NextEra, which owns the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant, said its plan to alter its emergency personnel will not compromise the public’s health and safety. The company has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to approve the proposed...