IPSWICH – Fire Chief Paul Parisi and Police Chief Paul Nikas report that the Ipswich Fire and Police Departments responded Friday to an incident in which a horse got stuck in a drainage swale. On Friday, Jan. 31, at approximately 12:09 p.m., Ipswich Communications...
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Rowley Windward Crossing Up to 70% Affordable Housing Project May Yet Get a $500K Taxpayer Boost
ROWLEY – Town Meeting in May is likely to reconsider and may reverse a vote from last year to fund a portion of a new affordable housing project near the Market Basket shopping center on Rte. 1. The Rowley SelectBoard voted four to one last week to support a request...
Some Winter Sports Happen Indoors! Photos by Peter McClelland
Some Winter Sports Happen Indoors! Photos by Peter McClelland
Are UFOs Real?
AMESBURY – Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), came to the Costello Senior Center last week. About a dozen senior residents listened enthusiastically to Chris Torres of Salisbury Beach explain how the government and...
Wind Turbine Springs a Leak – Sprays Hydraulic Fluid Over Neighborhood
NEWBURYPORT – Mark Rickey's wind turbine, solar panels and a biomass boiler have long been examples of green manufacturing here. But earlier this month, wind and rain caused a container of hydraulic fluid on the turbine to spill into its catch basin, polluting the...
Georgetown Conservation Commission Details Enforcement Order Against ‘Forest Bathing’ Site
GEORGETOWN – While the left hand is all concerned with $48.83 in wrongly submitted mileage reimbursements over a 10-month period (see prior stories), the Georgetown Conservation Commission continues to focus on matters of septic system upgrades, boundary markers to...
Newburyport Sculture – Blending History, Clipper Ships, and Abolitionists
NEWBURYPORT – The city expects this spring to install Sail Trace, a tall clipper ship sculpture, in Market Landing Park on the Merrimack River waterfront. Designed and created by Portland, Me. sculptor Aaron T Stephan, the art work, chosen by the city’s Public Art...
Groveland Library Gets New Furniture
By Michael Dempsey Special to The Town Common ––––––––––––––––– GROVELAND – Patrons of Groveland’s Langley-Adams Library are enjoying new furniture! There are now modern square tables with dark blue laminate tops and new matching dark blue comfortable chairs making...
Seacoast Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol in Portsmouth to Host an Open House on Feb. 6th
PORTSMOUTH, NH – You are invited to come to the Seacoast Composite Squadron Open House on Thursday, 6 February 2025, beginning at 6:30 P.M., at the Service Credit Union, 3003 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth, NH. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is an all-volunteer auxiliary of the...
Newbury First Parish Food Bank – Making Good Choices
NEWBURY – First Parish Food Bank patrons were greeted last Friday with a new labeling system on the food packages they received designed to encourage them to make healthier eating choices. In a new program with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Boston...
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