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REGIONAL – Wondering why home prices and apartment rentals in Massachusetts are so high? Look no further than one statistic from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Between 1960 and 1990, 900,000 homes were built in Massachusetts. In the next 30...
NEWBURYPORT — The replica of a ship that circumnavigated the globe 800 years ago will spend 10 days next month berthed at the waterfront as part of the Custom House’s Newburyport Maritime Days. The original Nao Trinidad, a 200-ton Tall Ship, sailed around the world...
REGIONAL – A staunch group of determined volunteers who fought poverty here for 15 years under the banner of Pennies for Poverty: 2 Cents 4 Change has gone out of business. The group raised money from individual donors, its Music for Change event, the annual Grocery...
AMESBURY — Sparhawk School headmaster Louise Stilphen closed the private school last week for the last time and is attempting to sell its two campuses, while parents and teachers are trying either to buy the school or open a new one. Stilphen, who started Sparhawk and...
GEORGETOWN – The town learned from its lawyer last week that the new town’s bylaw prohibiting a trash transfer station from having the capacity to process more than 50 tons a day may not apply to J. Mello’s Disposal Corp.’ proposed 500-ton/per day trash transfer...
ROWLEY – The Clark School opened its Theater at the Bell last week for a new community theater with plans to become a major player in the North Shore performing arts world. With a cast of 11, the company is staging the Little Shop of Horrors for its inaugural feature...
NEWBURYPORT – The sounds of new homes being built wafted across Auburn Street last week as a group of historians, museum leaders and city employees watched Ed Balsky search for long-dead bodies on a hillside of the 18th Century Oak Hill Cemetery. In an area of the...
IPSWICH — Unless its neighbors file another lawsuit to stop it, the Waldingfield estate, which traces its history to 1638, may soon be undergoing major renovations to become a corporate campus. The Massachusetts Land Court has turned down an appeal by the Friends of...
REGIONAL – Major Gen. Gordon Granger could hardly have imagined that 156 years after he delivered the news that slaves were free to the people of Texas, the event would be turned into a national holiday called Juneteenth. Nor could the Union general and hero of the...
NEWBURYPORT — The history of African Americans in this city has been what Northeastern University professor Dr. Kabria Baumgartner recently described as stories that “have been erased or misplaced.” Now thanks to the Newburyport Black History Initiative, a dozen...
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