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SALISBURY — Jessica Rivera, a single mother of four children, has been homeless two different times. She works 40 to 70 hours per week at three jobs to support her family who lives in a Haverhill apartment, where rent was double what she is paying for her new home. ...
It was a literary debut 25 years in the making for North Shore author Sue Thomson, who published her first novel, “Trevor,” on March 21. Thomson, who writes as S. Hilbre Thomson, and is a sixth grade teacher in Middleton, grew up in Topsfield and makes the most of the...
WENHAM - The Wenham Museum will open a new exhibit on April 16, entitled Pysanky for Peace, a traveling exhibition of pysanky, which are elaborately decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs. The exhibit will raise funds for Razom, which provides critically needed medical...
The Friends of the Georgetown Peabody Library and the Boxford Town Library will host author Stephen Puleo discussing his latest book, Voyage of Mercy. The event will be held Saturday, April 23 at 10:30AM at the Georgetown Peabody Library, 2 Maple Street, Georgetown....
REGIONAL — The war in Ukraine is closer than it may seem. Dylan Collins, who grew up in West Newbury, is a news correspondent for the Agence France Presse, covering the war in Kviv. Jarrod and Nadiia Sadowski, who live on Plum Island, continue to raise money to buy...
The first time Justin Haley, number 68, was called up to pitch at Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox, it almost didn’t happen. The 6-foot, 5-inch Californian in May of 2018 was pitching for the PawSox, the Triple A professional baseball team in Pawtucket, RI, when he...
IPSWICH - The Ipswich Fire Department trained with the Northeast Massachusetts Technical Rescue Team (NEMTRT) on Thursday, March 24 at a simulated trench collapse. The training was held at Miles River Sand & Gravel who has hosted training many times in the past....
GEORGETOWN – The town Board of Health will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. on April 5 at the Georgetown High School to determine if the G. Mello Disposal Corp. can build a 500-ton per day transfer station at the end of Carleton Road. In what will probably be the most...
Ipswich Police and Fire Departments responded to a single-vehicle crash in which a box truck struck a utility pole and rolled over. Fire Chief Paul Parisi and Police Chief Paul Nikas and report that on Thursday, March 24, at approximately 10:10 a.m., multiple 911...
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