NEWBURYPORT – After only two months as president of the Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce, former state Sen. Kathleen O’Connor Ives will leave the chamber July 10, citing “unanticipated and pressing family commitments.” O’Connor Ives, who was the unanimous...
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Mello Transfer Station Gets More Complicated
GEORGETOWN – G. Mello Disposal Corp.’s plans to build a 500-ton transfer station near Interstate 95 got even more complicated last week. Mello, which collects trash in several North Shore communities, already operates a 50-ton transfer station on East Main Street...
Family veterinary practice celebrates seven decades of service
Ipswich — Veterinarian Dr. Helen Noble frequently takes two important passengers along for the ride when she goes out on barn visits—her two small dogs, Mattie and Haley. “Mattie is little and she gets into trouble...She put those chickens away for a reason,”...
Essex Pastures ZBA Decision Appealed
IPSWICH – Will Essex Pastures have 191 units like developer John Bruni wants or 141 units that were approved by the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) last month? Will it have the almost 8,000 square feet of retail space as Bruni proposed, or none as the ZBA...
Who Will Pay to Rebuild Carleton Drive?
GEORGETOWN – Carleton Drive must be totally rebuilt if it is to support hundreds of new vehicles from tractor trailers and packer trucks to cars and pickups, handling trash at the proposed 500-ton transfer station, the Planning Board learned last week. It is unclear...
Waterfront Rail Trail Gap Now Open
NEWBURYPORT – The temperature and the humidity along the Merrimack River felt more like the lower Mississippi River Wednesday as a Dixieland Jazz band led a crowd of rail trail enthusiasts in marching along the newly opened waterfront gap in the Clipper City Rail...
Salisbury Cemetery Wars
SALISBURY — War broke out last week over burial urns, shepherd’s poles and benches before the town’s Cemetery Commission. At the usually peaceful meeting of the town’s cemetery commission, about 20 emotionally distraught residents came to the Town Hall auditorium to...
First Parish Food Pantry Needs a Permanent Home
REGIONAL – The food pantry at the First Parish Church in Newbury needs a new, permanent home. The pantry that started in a small library of the church five and a half years ago has grown to serve 250 to 300 individuals and families every Friday. “It’s like we spent...
‘The Golf Gods Will Strike You Down’
REGIONAL – Walking down the hallway and through the double doors into the Shark Tank , Alex Van Alen and John Pruellage were “pumped” to present their new, fast-growing sport of FlingGolf to the five investor-sharks and to the rest of the world on the popular...
Merrimac Honors Its Officer Veterans
MERRIMAC – Before officers Stephen Ringuette and Anthony Harris served this community of 6,500 residents as police officers, they served their country during the war in Iraq as members of the Army’s 972 Military Police Co. Officer Lawrence Mittica served as an Army...
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