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ROWLEY – It would be hard to top the glowing performance review the Rowley Board of Selectmen gave to Town Administrator Deborah Eagan at its May 9 meeting. The board voted unanimously to hand Eagan marks of excellent across the board in every category after reciting...
NEWBURYPORT – It’s a battle between baseball, America’ national sport, which traces its origins to immigrants who brought a game of hitting balls with a bat from the Old Country, and pickleball, the nation’s newest sport, which traces its beginnings to a Sunday...
GLOUCESTER — Empty Bowl TO GO 2.0 raised a record-breaking $164,000 for The Open Door’s Mobile Market and Summer Meals for Kids programs this weekend, the most the established fundraiser has ever generated. In all, 771 people attended the drive-thru event on...
HAMILTON-WENHAM – School officials shut down the Hamilton-Wenham High School junior prom early on Saturday, April 28 when one or more students were heard yelling a racial slur while a DJ played music. One or more students yelled the N-word while music was playing and...
GLOUCESTER – Hawaii. San Diego. Santa Monica. Hilton Head. And Gloucester. All are on the latest Travel + Leisure list as homes to some of the best beaches in the USA. Good Harbor Beach made the top 25 this year, alongside fabled coastlines such as Santa Monica Beach,...
ROWLEY – Driving along Rte. 1A beside the Town Common, you may have noticed one of the trees at the southern end of the park has sprouted colored paper this spring. Stop and look closely. The papers are poems, written by students at the North Shore Montessori School...
NEWBURYPORT – On Saturday, April 30, 19-year-old Allison Brock of Newburyport, had her wish to plant trees granted. Allison has refractory epilepsy. To grant her wish, Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island worked closely with Newburyport’s Parks and Recreation...
IPSWICH – MassDEP Commissioner Martin Suuberg joined local officials and environmental leaders last week along the Ipswich River to celebrate a grant to help local watershed coalitions monitor water quality. The Ipswich River Watershed Association, in partnership with...
NEWBURYPORT – Ken Medema finishes his solo, 90-minute concerts with three to five songs that are improvised on the spot, complete with rhyming, from stories he gleans from members of the audience. And if that is not remarkable enough, Ken is blind. Nearing his 80th...
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