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NEWBURYPORT – The city is raising money to recognize 18 grave sites in the Old Burying Ground that were recently found by ground-penetrating radar. The city and the Newburyport Black History Initiative believe the unmarked graves near Auburn Street were those of 18th...
REGIONAL – Fair Winds Farm in West Newbury has partnered with the Amesbury-based Center for Children and Teen Center (CATCH) to provide equine-based therapy programs for young people. “It seemed like a natural partnership.” said Carolyn Gayler-Romero, CATCH director....
NEWBURY - Watercolor Interest Group of the Newburyport Art in conjunction with the Newbury Public Library, Byfield will be hosting “Joyful Watercolors” an exhibition of watercolors at the Newbury Public Library Nov. 21 through to Jan. 7, 2024. Twenty-one members of...
Newburyport - Hope Community Church will open to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts for the Samaritan’s Purse project. Volunteers are preparing to collect shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 13 – 20. Operation Christmas Child has been...
NEWBURY - When U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced last week that it planned to demolish the beloved Pink House on the Plum Island Turnpike, its strongest supporters were completely blindsided. The leaders of the Support the Pink House (STPH), a non-profit...
GEORGETOWN – Land Court Judge Kevin Smith sided last week with G. Mello Trash Disposal Corp. and ordered the town’s Conservation Commission to approve conditions on the proposed 500-ton trash transfer station that are not “unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious.” The...
ROWLEY – If you would like to do more this Veterans Day than thank veterans for their service, join in the fun Saturday for a 5-kilometer run/walk. And bring your children for a 1-mile fun run. The Rowley Volunteer Fire Protection Association (RVFPA) is hosting this...
PLUM ISLAND – Francis Broadbery, owner of the now closed Plum Island Grille, will face a magistrate Nov. 15 to determine if he will be charged with malicious destruction of property at the grille estimated by a private contractor to be $192,000. The Newbury Police...
REGIONAL – Ken Irwin, a music producer, who has heard and seen more bands than most, described the Authentic Unlimited Band as “the best he has heard in years.” The 2023 winners of two International Bluegrass Music Awards, including Vocal Group of the Year, will bring...
NEWBURYPORT – William Lloyd Garrison, the outspoken abolitionist against slavery and one of this city’s most esteemed sons, would be pleased with the new interpretative sign being installed next week near his statue in Brown Square across the street from City Hall....
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