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ROWLEY – The Clark School has opened a pre-school and plans to expand over the next few years to care for and educate more than 200 students on its growing campus on Rte. 1 here. Opened for about a month, the 45-year-old Clark School is “dedicated to providing a...
NEWBURYPORT – For much of its five-year history here, pickleball seemed like a Nor’easter brewing as tennis players, neighbors of pickleball courts and even the Pioneer League of baseballers and softballers at Lower Atkinson Common wished this new game would go back...
Janice B. Thoen, 62, of Rowley, wife of James J. Thoen, passed away peacefully in her home on Thursday, February 23, 2023. Jan was born in 1961 in Des Moines, Iowa and she was raised in a family where having fun was a constant: water skiing, snow skiing, boating on...
REGIONAL – Why celebrate St. Patrick’s Day only one day a year? How about all month long, beginning this weekend? The Belleville Roots Music Series is opening St. Paddy’s Month this Sunday, March 5, “a wee bit early,” the concert series announcement said, with the...
AMESBURY – On the second floor of CI Works, which houses dozens of small manufacturing firms, Charles Doyle can be found in a well-lit room, surrounded by history books and strange-looking machines, replicating ancient coins from Biblical, Roman and Greek times. A new...
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...
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