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Welcome to Newbury Town Day! Saturday, August 26, 2023 This day-long, all-volunteer event for all ages, happening all over Newbury, celebrates the riches of our town. Enjoy art, music, history, dance, food, sports and games, and much more. Here is your guide to all of...
GEORGETOWN – The town’s Conservation Commission is closed, at least temporarily. The last two members of the commission’s staff resigned as part of a continuing battle with the town administrator and other town employees over the commission’s future. The veteran...
REGIONAL – Ray Pike, the Salisbury harbormaster for 16 years, was enjoying a scenic hike in the White Mountains last fall along a ridge high enough to see maybe as far as Canada when he stumbled and fell. He ended up in the hospital for weeks and for almost a year...
Cantemus Kicks Off 42nd Season with Preview, Auditions and Call for High School Choral Interns IPSWICH - Cantemus Chamber Chorus, with members from across the North Shore, has announced its programs for the coming winter and spring of 2024. The season opens in January...
REGIONAL – The future of trash pickup can be seen in Amesbury and a few other municipalities as the city last week rolled out the first brown trash carts that are picked up by trucks with only a driver. “Only trash in the new G. Mello brown carts will be collected;...
REGIONAL – As Solace for Stephanie will tell you, cancer is no laughing matter, except for one night a year, when the 13-year-old non-profit organization assembles some of the best comics in the area to raise money to help those fighting cancer. Named for Stephanie...
Newbury, Rowley, Ipswich to Receive $948,084 for Local Road and Bridge Projects Funding is included in $375M transportation infrastructure bond authorization BOSTON – Newbury will receive $267,000.06, Rowley will receive $238,751.03, and Ipswich will receive...
AMESBURY – Watch some of the nation’s best FlingGolf players compete on ESPN next week and become a flinger yourself in September at the New England FlingGolf classic held at the Amesbury Country Club and the Apple Hill Golf Club in East Kingston, NH. ESPN2 will...
TOPSFIELD, MA – - Construction on the Howlett Brook Dam fishway Jul 20, 2023 upgrades have begun and will be completed by early August. A weir-pool fishway had previously existed at this site but was completely destroyed during the Mother’s Day Flood in 2006. The dam...
ROWLEY – The Bluebird Performance Venue has found a comfortable nest at the First Congregational Church, bringing this month an eclectic group of musicians playing seldom heard instruments, vocalists and poets for a second concert at the church. “I’ve never met more...
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