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NEWBURYPORT – Pickleball is back at the Newburyport Tennis Club this weekend. The NTC, which has housed indoor tennis for more than 40 years, has repaved and painted an underutilized parking lot, large enough for three pickleball courts. Play is expected to begin...
BOXFORD – Police are investigating a troubling incident that happened at Masconomet High School about a week prior to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. A 61-year-old Lynn man entered the school through a propped open door at the school on May 13, according...
REGIONAL – Sarah Abramson became an environmental activist at age eight when she learned that there was a hole in the Earth’s ozone layer. Fast forward more than two decades, and Sarah, now the mother of a two-year-old son, has a new worry about the planet – keeping...
Rowley Community members joined the Rowley Veterans Association to place new U.S. flags on over 660 Veterans’ graves at the Rowley Burial ground last weekend in time for Memorial Day. The flags also serve as markers for the wreaths that are laid on each veterans’...
SALISBURY – The town’s Historical Commission would like to preserve two buildings on Ring’s Island, built in the 19th century. It voted to nominate the Community Meeting House and one of the state’s few remaining one-room schoolhouses on Fourth Street as Endangered...
HAMILTON – In the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision which ruled Boston must allow a Christian Group to fly its flag over city hall, the Hamilton Select Board is considering a policy to govern which flags it lets fly over town hall and at Patton Park. The board’s...
GEORGETOWN – The town’s three-member Board of Health voted unanimously last week to approve the site on Carleton Drive for a proposed 550-ton trash transfer station, but under conditions that limit the size of the station for the first four years and would make...
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