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ROWLEY – A pillar that has held up Town Hall in this historic town will be gone next week. But fear not, Town Clerk Susan Hazen, who is retiring after 21 years, is not going far. She lives across the street from Town Hall. Last week, Susan, who has an encyclopedic...
REGIONAL – It is not even summer, and Ipswich along with other North Shore towns are asking residents and businesses to limit the amount of water they use. In Ipswich, forget watering your lawn except with a hand-held hose, washing your car and the outside of your...
NEWBURYPORT – After decades of debate, this city is asking the public what it wants its most precious asset – the Merrimack River waterfront – to look like for future generations to enjoy. The city selected Sasaki, VHB and other subconsultants to develop a new design...
REGIONAL – As the Pandemic winds down and people begin to travel or commute again to work, C&J Bus Lines is growing once more. “I feel good where we are going,” said C&J president Jim Jalbert last week. But Jalbert predicts it will take two years for C&J’s bus service to Boston and New York City to return to pre-Pandemic levels…
NEWBURYPORT -- Bruce Vogel asked the landlord for his popular Plum Island Roasters Coffee House to let him stay open until April 30. But faced with triple the rent and the potential of paying the fees for his landlord’s lawyers to go through an eviction process, Vogel...
GEORGETOWN – Attorney General Maura Healey ruled on April 15 that the town of Georgetown can limit the size of a trash transfer station to 50 tons a day, but it may not affect the proposal by G. Mello Disposal Corp. to build a transfer station capable of handling 500...
GEORGETOWN – There is no question that the proposed 500-ton transfer station here is a big project. But is it big enough to trigger a comprehensive town Planning Board review that has never been done before? That is the question...
REGIONAL – When Dr. Gary Gastman suggested to his Link House board that the addiction recovery and treatment organization should open its first out-patient facility, he projected that the Amesbury Center for Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment Services would...
PORTSMOUTH NH: April 9 -11, Pontine Theatre brings George Savary Wasson’s early 1905 novel, The Green Shay to the stage. The two-person production features Pontine Co-Directors, Greg Gathers and Marguerite Mathews. Wasson’s books have been described as “the most...
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