ROWLEY – To celebrate its second anniversary, Cape Ann Botanicals & Cannabis has become a corporate partner of the Ipswich River Watershed Assn. with the goal of educating employees and customers to become river stewards. American Rivers ranks the Ipswich as the...
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Move-In Ready
NEWBURY – It had already been a full day at 4:30 p.m. last Friday for the volunteers at the First Parish Church Food Pantry. The volunteers had started early packing bags of food from pasta to peanut butter in cars to deliver thousands of pounds of food stuffs to more...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, For 17 years now, the Newburyport Literary Festival has brought readers and writers together to share their love of books—their love of words, stories, poems, and information. For the 3rd year, we have had to have our festival on Zoom rather than in...
Firehouse Center For The Arts Summer Outdoor Series
Rowley Town Administrator Earns Top Marks from Selectmen
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...
Baseball Versus Pickleball
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...
Open Door Raises Record-Breaking $164,000
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...
Racist Incident at Hamilton-Wenham Junior Prom Investigated
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...
Good Harbor Named One of Top Beaches in USA
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,...
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