by Stewart Lytle | Dec 26, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Georgetown
GEORGETOWN – A few weeks after the town’s Conservation Commission Chair was asked to resign, members of the town’s Community Preservation Committee (CPC) tried to remove its chair. Former SelectBoard member David Twiss, upset with Harry Cortiglia, the veteran chair of...
by Ava Moeckel | Dec 26, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Newburyport
NEWBURYPORT – The city has installed a new interpretive sign beneath the statue of the esteemed liberator, William Lloyd Garrison, pays tribute to the black activists, who, city planner Geordie Vining said, “made history, but were left out of the history books.” The...
by Stewart Lytle | Dec 26, 2023 | Byfield, Community News, Education, Featured, Ipswich, Newbury, Rowley, Salisbury
REGIONAL – The superintendents of Ipswich and Triton schools were disappointed that the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) did not invite their districts this year to apply for funding to rebuild their deteriorating school buildings. Both Ipswich’s Dr....
by Stewart Lytle | Dec 19, 2023 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – Cancer is not funny, but comedian Paul Gilligan and friends have raised a lot of money year after year cracking jokes to raise money for the non-profit Solace for Stephanie that makes life a little easier for North Shore cancer victims. From being a class...
by Stewart Lytle | Dec 19, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Georgetown
GEORGETOWN – Carl Shreder, who chaired the town’s Conservation Commission (ConCom) for almost a quarter century, was honored last week by the state Legislature for protecting the town’s environment. A few days after he was asked by SelectBoard chair Amy Smith to...
by Stewart Lytle | Dec 19, 2023 | Boxford, Byfield, Community News, Featured, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Ipswich, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Rowley, Salisbury, Topsfield, West Newbury
REGIONAL – Town leaders across the North Shore can only hope a blizzard hits Haverhill but not any of the coastal towns on Jan. 23, keeping Haverhill’s residents from voting in the multi-town election to approve a nearly half-billion-dollar new building for the...
