REGIONAL – If there is any lingering question that electric cars are the future, ask your police chief. He may be driving an all-wheel drive Tesla or will be soon. Newburyport’s Marshall Mark Murray has proposed that the city authorize the purchase of a Tesla as a...
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Vintage Base Ball Returns to Spencer Peirce Little Farm in Newbury
Vintage Base Ball is back at the farm! The Essex Base Ball Organization has announced its 2021 schedule in which they play a doubleheader almost every Sunday at noon through September. If you love baseball and history and long for a Sunday afternoon relaxing in the...
Who Will Pay to Rebuild Carleton Drive?
GEORGETOWN – Carleton Drive must be totally rebuilt if it is to support hundreds of new vehicles from tractor trailers and packer trucks to cars and pickups, handling trash at the proposed 500-ton transfer station, the Planning Board learned last week. It is unclear...
Affordable Housing V. Salamanders and Frogs
BYFIELD — In recent years as North Shore green space is gobbled up by the growing demand for housing, the battle municipalities face is often whether to side with people, who vote and pay taxes, or salamanders and tree frogs. That issue is before the Newbury...
Waterfront Rail Trail Gap Now Open
NEWBURYPORT – The temperature and the humidity along the Merrimack River felt more like the lower Mississippi River Wednesday as a Dixieland Jazz band led a crowd of rail trail enthusiasts in marching along the newly opened waterfront gap in the Clipper City Rail...
Salisbury Cemetery Wars
SALISBURY — War broke out last week over burial urns, shepherd’s poles and benches before the town’s Cemetery Commission. At the usually peaceful meeting of the town’s cemetery commission, about 20 emotionally distraught residents came to the Town Hall auditorium to...
First Parish Food Pantry Needs a Permanent Home
REGIONAL – The food pantry at the First Parish Church in Newbury needs a new, permanent home. The pantry that started in a small library of the church five and a half years ago has grown to serve 250 to 300 individuals and families every Friday. “It’s like we spent...
‘The Golf Gods Will Strike You Down’
REGIONAL – Walking down the hallway and through the double doors into the Shark Tank , Alex Van Alen and John Pruellage were “pumped” to present their new, fast-growing sport of FlingGolf to the five investor-sharks and to the rest of the world on the popular...
Spreading Ashes on the Rail Trail
NEWBURYPORT – The Clipper City Rail Trail is one of the most popular spots to run, walk or ride a bike. Parents love to push strollers along the scenic path that winds through the city lined with beautiful gardens and artistic statues. But don’t plan on having your...
Rte. 1 May Get Traffic Light
ROWLEY – If you’ve turned north off of Central Street onto State Highway Rte. 1 and said a prayer that a car, blocked from view, was not barreling up the hill at you, help may be on the way. If you have waited on Glen or Central streets hoping for a break in the...
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