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REGIONAL — Kathleen O’Connor Ives graduated from law school not because she wanted to practice law. Her interests were in government and specifically environmental issues. She won a seat on the Newburyport City Council in 2007 before she took the bar exam. So, it was...
BOISE, ID – Mike Wilson was happy to cross the Oregon state line into Idaho last week on his 3,000-mile run across America to raise money for his favorite charity, Lucy’s Bus in Amesbury. He expected to begin the journey across the Rocky Mountains in the next few...
REGIONAL – As the Pandemic winds down and people begin to travel or commute again to work, C&J Bus Lines is growing once more. “I feel good where we are going,” said C&J president Jim Jalbert last week. But Jalbert predicts it will take two years for C&J’s bus service to Boston and New York City to return to pre-Pandemic levels…
THE OREGON BADLANDS – Mike Wilson took off running last Thursday on his 3,000-mile journey across the country to raise money for his favorite charity, Lucy’s Bus in Amesbury. After a false start from Santa Monica, CA, that led him on a route across the desert, Mike...
NEWBURYPORT -- Bruce Vogel asked the landlord for his popular Plum Island Roasters Coffee House to let him stay open until April 30. But faced with triple the rent and the potential of paying the fees for his landlord’s lawyers to go through an eviction process, Vogel...
GEORGETOWN – Attorney General Maura Healey ruled on April 15 that the town of Georgetown can limit the size of a trash transfer station to 50 tons a day, but it may not affect the proposal by G. Mello Disposal Corp. to build a transfer station capable of handling 500...
NEWBURYPORT – Crowds of book lovers will not roam the streets of this old seaport again this spring looking for their favorite or soon-to-be favorite authors and poets at the Newburyport Literary Festival. But that does not mean that the beloved and resilient...
Michael Wilson, 28, who lives in Eliot, ME and works as a personal trainer in Portsmouth, NH is running 3,250 miles from the Santa Monica, CA pier to the Newburyport waterfront to raise money for Lucy’s Love Bus in Amesbury that serves children and adults with cancer....
GEORGETOWN – There is no question that the proposed 500-ton transfer station here is a big project. But is it big enough to trigger a comprehensive town Planning Board review that has never been done before? That is the question...
NEWBURYPORT – It looked like just another busy day at the Plum Island Roasters Coffee House last Friday. A steady stream of coffee lovers poured in for a better-than-normal day. Owner Bruce Vogel was behind the counter, serving coffee, bantering with regulars and...
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