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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...
REGIONAL – Yankee Homecoming started as an economic development event in 1958, when the regional economy was struggling and many mills and businesses had closed. New England artist Jack Frost proposed a regionwide initiative to encourage native New Englanders and...
NEWBURYPORT – The Newburyport High School girls’ tennis team won the state championship this spring and may be among the top-ranked teams again next year because several star players, led by Caroline Schulson, are returning. The only problem. Even though Newburyport...
GEORGETOWN – The town’s Board of Selectmen declined last week to reappoint two veteran members of the seven-member Conservation Commission (ConCom), who had voted along with all other commission members not to approve G. Mello Trash Disposal Corp.’s proposed 500-ton...
GROVELAND – Superintendent Colin Stokes reminds the community that the Groveland Water and Sewer Department issued an outdoor water ban effective June 28 in response to the Commonwealth declaring a Level 2 drought. Residents are asked to cease all outdoor watering...
ESSEX — Chief Paul Francis and the Essex Police Department would like to inform the community that about 500 National Grid customers in Essex will be affected by a planned power outage this week.. In order to accommodate ongoing bridge work on Main Street, National...
REGIONAL — Jim Kelcourse resigned last week from what he described as “the best job I’ve ever had” as the state Representative for the northern Essex County communities of Amesbury, Newburyport and Salisbury. But replacing the popular state legislator will not be easy...
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