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Georgetown Chair Survives Ouster

GEORGETOWN – A few weeks after the town’s Conservation Commission Chair was asked to resign, members of the town’s Community Preservation Committee (CPC) tried to remove its chair. Former SelectBoard member David Twiss, upset with Harry Cortiglia, the veteran chair of...

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Left Out of the History Books – No More

NEWBURYPORT – The city has installed a new interpretive sign beneath the statue of the esteemed liberator, William Lloyd Garrison, pays tribute to the black activists, who, city planner Geordie Vining said, “made history, but were left out of the history books.” The...

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Fight To Rebuild Ipswich & Triton School Buildings

REGIONAL – The superintendents of Ipswich and Triton schools were disappointed that the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) did not invite their districts this year to apply for funding to rebuild their deteriorating school buildings. Both Ipswich’s Dr....

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Comedian Paul Gilligan Honored

REGIONAL – Cancer is not funny, but comedian Paul Gilligan and friends have raised a lot of money year after year cracking jokes to raise money for the non-profit Solace for Stephanie that makes life a little easier for North Shore cancer victims. From being a class...

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State Honors a ‘Treasure’

GEORGETOWN – Carl Shreder, who chaired the town’s Conservation Commission (ConCom) for almost a quarter century, was honored last week by the state Legislature for protecting the town’s environment. A few days after he was asked by SelectBoard chair Amy Smith to...

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Whittier Building Vote Set for January

REGIONAL – Town leaders across the North Shore can only hope a blizzard hits Haverhill but not any of the coastal towns on Jan. 23, keeping Haverhill’s residents from voting in the multi-town election to approve a nearly half-billion-dollar new building for the...

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Mello Appeals Planning Board Conditions

GEORGETOWN – The G. Mello Trash Disposal Corp. has asked the state Land Court to remove the conditions the town’s Planning Board imposed on the 500-ton trash transfer station the company plans to build once it gets town approvals. Mello’s appeal said some of the...

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Learn Something Fun This Winter

NEWBURYPORT – When winter seems unbearable, don’t just suffer through the long, cold nights. Have some fun. Patti St. John, the director of Newburyport Adult and Community Education (NACE), has a few good ideas. Get to know your ancestors, learn to sing outside the...

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Congressman Moulton: Where Art Thou?

NEWBURY — On a cold December night last week on Plum Island, supporters of the Pink House turned up the heat on the area’s delegation to Congress, particularly U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, to save the federally owned Pink House from demolition. Supporters of the Pink...

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Conservation Commission Battle Rages On

GEORGETOWN – It appears it was not enough to pressure the 25-year veteran chair of the town’s environmental watch dog commission to resign. Critics of the Conservation Commission (ConCom) have turned their sights on the vice chair and possibly other commission members...

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