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NEWBURYPORT – Mayor Sean Reardon called the dozen students and adults who won the city’s Human Rights Commission’s Peace prizes this year “good examples for the whole community” for their acts of kindness and inclusiveness. Superintendent Sean Gallagher pronounced...
SALISBURY — The proposed Big Block housing complex on the beach front here is again before the town for approval. The mixed-used project, which could be the long-sought catalyst for the beach front development, would replace an aging group of bars and arcades with 235...
REGIONAL – If you travel Rte. 1 between Rowley and Salisbury, you are getting a totally rebuilt roadway by March of 2025. But getting there for the next two years may be a bit painful. Starting this month, traffic will be slowed while the state Department of...
ROWLEY — The Rowley Board of Selectmen was just that - a male dominated bastion that ran the town government. But no longer. For the first time since the town’s was founded in 1639, a majority of seats on the five-member board is held by women, although Deborah Eagan...
SALISBURY – With mixed emotions all around, Town Manager Neil Harrington returned full-time to his desk at town hall last Wednesday after the results of the Salem special election proved he will not be the Witch City’s 50th mayor. “I know he really wanted to be mayor...
TRITON REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT — Rowley got outvoted last week at the Salisbury Town Meeting, which approved that town’s $15 million assessment next year for the Triton Regional School District budget. Rowley, which narrowly approved a cut in its assessment for...
GEORGETOWN – Amy Smith was elected as the chair of the SelectBoard and Robert Hoover is the new board clerk in a major changing of the guard at the top of town government. Smith was elected by the new majority on the board that includes newly elected Robert Hoover and...
IPSWICH — Town Manager Stephen Crane is pleased to share that the Town of Ipswich has received grant funding courtesy of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) to provide technical assistance for Phase I of the Town’s Section 3A work. The $40,000 in grant...
IPSWICH — The Ipswich Middle School Walk for Hunger on April 14 raised $17,000 for the Open Door by more than 300 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. Furthermore, the students pledged to walk approximately 10 miles from High Street to Great Neck. “Year after...
NEWBURY – For close to 20 years, townspeople here have been arguing, often heatedly, if they need to spend money on a new Town Hall. That debate may be resolved soon. On Tuesday, voters will decide whether to override the state’s spending limits to build a new Town...
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