by Stewart Lytle | Nov 14, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Newburyport
NEWBURYPORT – The city is raising money to recognize 18 grave sites in the Old Burying Ground that were recently found by ground-penetrating radar. The city and the Newburyport Black History Initiative believe the unmarked graves near Auburn Street were those of 18th...
by Ava Moeckel | Nov 14, 2023 | Community News, Featured
REGIONAL – Fair Winds Farm in West Newbury has partnered with the Amesbury-based Center for Children and Teen Center (CATCH) to provide equine-based therapy programs for young people. “It seemed like a natural partnership.” said Carolyn Gayler-Romero, CATCH director....
by The Town Common | Nov 14, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Newbury
NEWBURY – Watercolor Interest Group of the Newburyport Art in conjunction with the Newbury Public Library, Byfield will be hosting “Joyful Watercolors” an exhibition of watercolors at the Newbury Public Library Nov. 21 through to Jan. 7, 2024. Twenty-one members...
by The Town Common | Nov 14, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Newburyport
Newburyport – Hope Community Church will open to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts for the Samaritan’s Purse project. Volunteers are preparing to collect shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 13 – 20. Operation Christmas Child has...
by Stewart Lytle | Nov 7, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Newbury
NEWBURY – When U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced last week that it planned to demolish the beloved Pink House on the Plum Island Turnpike, its strongest supporters were completely blindsided. The leaders of the Support the Pink House (STPH), a...
by Stewart Lytle | Nov 7, 2023 | Community News, Featured, Georgetown
GEORGETOWN – Land Court Judge Kevin Smith sided last week with G. Mello Trash Disposal Corp. and ordered the town’s Conservation Commission to approve conditions on the proposed 500-ton trash transfer station that are not “unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious.” The...
