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REGIONAL – The Newburyport Black History Initiative (NBHI), in celebrating the great liberator, William Lloyd Garrison last week, honored an unsung local heroine who persuaded the school committee in the late 1950s that Black-faced minstrel shows created false...
GEORGETOWN – The G-TOWN Café has been nominated for The Town Common 2025 Business Christmas Decoration Award. The cafe is a hidden treasure, situated on the far corner of the Building Supply, in addition to the best cinnamon sticks, the cafe has real, fresh-baked...
Submitted by the office of Matthew Coogan, Town Administrator, Boxford The Town of Boxford will hold a Special Town Meeting on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM in the Masconomet High School Auditorium. The warrant contains eight articles, several of which...
AMESBURY – On Oct. 30, the Amesbury Fire Department was called to the Amesbury Innovation High School (AIHS) to check out the smell of gas in the building. That call has since created a major challenge for the school district, headed by Mayor Kassandra Gove, and the...
GEORGETOWN – G. Mello Disposal Corp. (Mello) has proposed and the town’s Board of Health (BOH) has agreed to allow trucks serving the new transfer station to cut the time in the morning by an hour, from 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. The BoH had permitted the trucks hauling trash...
GROVELAND – The Groveland Post Office has been nominated for The Town Common 2025 Business Christmas Decoration Award. The much admired decorations have transformed the Main Street location adjacent to the bridge into a welcoming showpiece Who thought going to the...
REGIONAL – With the long federal government shutdown that threatened to shut off SNAP food assistance, there has been a lot of focus on the dozens of food pantries for people in our area. But what about food and supplies for pets? Shayna Gatautis and Toni Knott, both...
SALISBURY – Rita Parisi will present *I Am Zelda*, an original one-act play about the extraordinary life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, at Actors Studio of Newburyport at Crossroads Plaza (1 Merrill Street, Salisbury, MA) on Saturday, December 27 at 7:30 PM. This special...
by Lonnie Brennan Republican Senator Bruce Tarr has joined at least 40 other, mostly Democrat state legislators this year to sponsor Bill H.3299, which would require all local governments subject to the open meeting law to provide both in-person and remote access to...
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