GEORGETOWN – George Peabody, the financier and father of modern American philanthropy, was smiling from his portrait atop the stairs at the public library named for him because Thursdays just got better. After years of being closed on Thursdays to save money, the...
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Belleville Roots Concert Sells Out
NEWBURYPORT – The SteelDrivers, one of the biggest names in progressive bluegrass music, has done it again in the port city. The Grammy-nominated band for the second time has sold out its concert next week on April 29 as part of the popular Belleville Roots Music...
Celebrate Our Planet
REGIONAL -- Earth Day is just around the corner, so what can you do to celebrate? On Earth Day, April 22, the Merrimack River Watershed Council is looking for volunteers to help clean up Deer Island in Amesbury. As a result of visitors and swift downstream currents,...
Actors Studio Looking for Funding and Home
REGIONAL – The Actors Studio, which has been producing high-quality performances with local actors, directors and playwrights for more than 30 years, is in search of money and a new home. “I make no apologies. We need money,” said Marc Clopton, the founder and...
Former Newburyport Mayor Byron Will Be Missed
NEWBURYPORT -- Byron Matthews, who died last month at age 94, was probably best known as the mayor who in the 1960s helped save this city’s downtown brick buildings from the urban renewal bulldozer. But to hundreds of avid tennis players throughout the North Shore,...
West Newbury Garage Fire
WEST NEWBURY — West Newbury Fire Department and mutual aid partners extinguished a residential garage fire Sunday night. The West Newbury Public Safety Dispatch Center received a 911 call at 6:35 p.m., reporting a fire at a home on Middle Street. The fire started in...
Salisbury’s Neil Harrington in the Finals for Salem Mayor
REGIONAL — Salisbury residents will have to wait until mid-May to learn if the town needs to find a successor to its long-time town manager, a task town leaders say will be difficult. Neil Harrington, who for almost 20 years has been the Salisbury town manager, beat...
Time to Learn Something Special
REGIONAL – With warm weather just around the corner, it’s time to consider taking a boating or kayaking safety course. If you have wanted to learn Tai Chi because your doctor says movement is medicine, how to create jewelry from sea glass collected on the beach or to...
Banter Barbershop Continues Heritage of Hair
NEWBURYPORT – The barber shop has long been a gathering place for men to get a trim and a shave, but even more to see old friends, make new ones, catch up on the latest, and above all, talk. Banter Barber and Clothier, as the name suggests, embraces that tradition on...
Northeast Arc Raises $3.2 million for the Disabled
REGIONAL – Northeast Arc raised more than $3.2 million in a three-year campaign for its Center for Linking Lives at Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers that serves individuals with autism and other disabilities. More than 150 members of the Northeast Arc community gathered...
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