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DANVERS — In recognition of Pride month, Recovery Centers of America (RCA) in Danvers recently hosted an event titled “LGBTQIA+ and Stigmatization: Understanding the impact and how to find resources.” Speakers from RCA, HRI Hospital, and Great Boston Addiction Center...
NEWBURYPORT – After running alone for more than 3,000 miles from the west coast, braving extreme weather, packs of dogs and numerous flat tires on his running stroller, Mike Wilson is planning to make the great American crossing on foot again next year. Wilson plans...
BOSTON – An Ipswich man who owned and operated numerous businesses in the state was sentenced to a year of home confinement and three years of supervised release for manipulating his payroll to evade over $1.8 million in taxes. George Vasiliades, 58, was also ordered...
NEWBURYPORT — The 17-acre March’s Hill, one of the highest points in the city, was used during the War of 1812 to watch for British ships on the Merrimack River. Today, neighbors of March’s Hill still have an eye out. But instead of British warships, they are keeping...
THE MERRIMACK RIVER – As a boy in Merrimacport, Dan Healey fished and played with his friends in what he described last week as “a very smelly” Merrimack River. The water smelled; the fish he and his friends caught smelled, he said. “When my mother would throw me out...
SALISBURY – The chair of the Historical Commission is asking residents to sign a petition online to preserve two buildings on Ring’s Island, built in the 1800s. The commission voted last month to ask the town’s Board of Selectmen to nominate the Community Meeting...
BOXFORD – A Boxford plumbing contractor was sentenced to more than a year in prison for defrauding customers by overcharging them and billing them for work he didn’t do. Jared Derrico, 35, also evaded income taxes, defrauding the government of almost $1.5 million,...
CAMBRIDGE – Joseph David Keery, a 2010 Newburyport High grad, guitar in hand, stands center stage Sunday afternoon at the Boston Calling music festival. He and his four Djo bandmates are dressed in matching white jumpsuits and a sizable crowd is grooving to their...
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