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WEST NEWBURY — West Newbury Police, West Newbury Dispatcher Bob Pierce, and Animal Control Officer Kayla Provencher teamed up Sunday to rescue an injured bald eagle. On Sunday, July 31, at approximately 2:08 p.m., West Newbury Police Sgt. Rich Parenteau and Officer...
GROVELAND – When Terry and Bernardine Clifford first tasted Nadiia Sadowski’s authentic Ukrainian food at a fundraising dinner at the Custom House in Newburyport, they offered to host a dinner at their 97 Pub here to raise money to feed the people of Nova Kahovka,...
NEWPORT, RI – The unexpected and unbelievable always seem to occur at the iconic Newport Folk Festival, which was founded by Lynn native George Wein and singer/activist Pete Seeger in 1959. Acoustic hero Bob Dylan went electric in 1965, aided and abetted by The Paul...
NEWBURYPORT – Parks Commission chair Ted Boretti last week offered a series of proposals to resolve the on-going battle between youths who ride bikes and build jumps and the residents who live next to the wooded, section of March’s Hill. In the first meeting since...
MERRIMACK RIVER BASIN – Only 13 days after the new state law regarding notification of sewage discharge into the Merrimack River went into effect on July 6, heavy rains overloaded the sewage treatment plants and forced the dumping of untreated sewage. The city of...
GEORGETOWN – Will the battle over the proposed 500-ton per-day trash transfer station cause this town’s top elected official to resign? A petition signed by more than 100 residents is asking Selectboard Chair Doug Dawes to “resign immediately,” accusing him of having...
BOXFORD – It was a dozen years ago when members of the Ingaldsby family first showed David Bauer, the Toll Brothers’ division president for Massachusetts, their farm as a possible site for a new housing development. The farm was “the prettiest development site I have...
REGIONAL – Forget sitting down to a bowl of fresh local clams for a few weeks. Thanks to the drought, the red tide harmful algal blooms have closed all North Shore beds to clamming. Gloucester, Newburyport, Essex, Ipswich, Newbury, Rockport, Rowley and Salisbury were...
NEWBURYPORT – Mayor Sean Reardon, making a major personnel move in his first year in office, terminated Parks Director Lise Reid last week. The mayor transferred the maintenance of the city’s 26 parks to the Department of Public Service (DPS). The move comes when the...
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