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HAVERHILL – The Whitter Tech Building Committee is pleased to share that members have voted unanimously to pursue construction of a new school building to best deliver a 21st century technical education to students. Whittier Tech opened in 1973, and its last...
NEWBURYPORT – Howard Fairweather, who died of heart failure at age 84 a few days after the New Year, cast a long shadow not only in the Boston banking world, but as chair of his hometown historical commission and a builder of Japonika, an exotic Japanese house and...
AMESBURY – If your favorite Boston Bruin seems to be faster this season and looking less fatigued in the third period, it might be because he is skating on an experimental titanium blade that is about half the weight of stainless-steel blades and slides smoother...
AMESBURY – What To Do With an Old Truck Stop? The city of Amesbury is taking the next step to find out. It is asking for proposals from private developers for how best to redevelop the once popular Trader Alan’s Truck Stop on Pond View Avenue near Interstate 495. The...
NEWBURY – Politics are heating to a boil here this spring with an upcoming Town Meeting on April 25 where residents are expected to spar over the proposed new, multi-million-dollar Town Hall. The Board of Selectmen election will follow on May 9 where two seats will be...
An individual with disabilities will be able to have horseback riding lessons this spring thanks to a scholarship awarded by Rotary Club of Ipswich-Rowley and Windrush Farm in North Andover. Any disabled adult, at least 18 years old and under 185 pounds, who lives in...
NEWBURYPORT — This city is good at preserving and honoring its history, honoring its Coast Guard heritage and preserving its downtown historic buildings, said Northeastern University professor Dr. Kabria Baumgartner last week. What the city did not preserve and honor...
REGIONAL – Towns and cities in eastern Massachusetts last week took the first step toward creating thousands of new multi-family homes to reduce the chronic housing shortage. A new economic development law includes a provision that requires communities served by the...
BOSTON — Almost three months after the election was held, the state House voted to seat Democrat Kristin Kassner of Hamilton as the representative from the Second Essex District. Kassner won the election by one vote after a recount over 10-year veteran Lenny Mirra of...
Tough Warrior Princesses Deliver ‘Joy’ Baskets By Stewart Lytle, Reporter REGIONAL – Since the first of the year, the Tough Warrior Princesses has created and delivered one basket of “joy” per day for cancer victims. That’s about 30 baskets in the last month, each...
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