NEWBURYPORT - Cantemus Chamber Chorus welcomes Grammy Award-winner Paul Winter and the Paul Winter Consort in a performance of Winter’s jubilant “Missa Gaia/Earth Mass.” American gospel singer Theresa Thomason is the featured artist. The Missa Gaia is a multi-media...
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Sea View Retreat Becomes a Private Social Club, Wedding Venue
ROWLEY –Sea View Retreat, the stately brick building that was home to thousands of elderly residents for almost 70 years, is being reinvented as a social club and wedding venue, maybe a restaurant and Airbnb. After months of wrangling with the Commonwealth over...
Buy an EAT Hat, Feed the Hungry
NEWBURY – Chris Brown started volunteering at the First Parish Food Pantry two years ago during the Covid-19 Pandemic. “I wanted to do something useful. I was tired of sitting around at home,” he said. The 16-year-old Brown enjoyed meeting the people who came to the...
Cheryl Wheeler in Concert on the Belleville Stage
NEWBURYPORT - Belleville Roots Music Series presents singer/songwriter, humorist, and social critic, Cheryl Wheeler, for a lively evening of song and commentary, Saturday, April 2, at 8:00 pm, on the Belleville Stage, 300 High Street, Newburyport. Tickets available...
West Newbury Firefighter and former Boston Red Sox pitcher graduated from the academy
WEST NEWBURY - Justin Haley, who pitched in four games for the 2018 World Series Champion Red Sox, recently graduated from the Call/Volunteer Recruit Firefighting Training Program at the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy. Haley, 30, said that as his baseball career...
Whittier Tech student nominated as a U.S. Presidential Scholar
HAVERHILL – Superintendent Maureen Lynch inounced that a Whittier Tech student has been nominated as a U.S. Presidential Scholar. Senior Chloe Simard of Haverhill studies in the Allied Health Program. She carries a 4.22 grade-point average and maintains high honors....
More Firefighters to the Rescue
HAMILTON – Firefighters no longer only fight dangerous fires like the midnight battle this winter to save people and houses on Salisbury Beach. As first responders, firefighters are called on almost daily to respond to a variety of hazards and emergencies. You may...
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Boston Sports Legends In Downtown Painting
NEWBURYPORT – Several Boston sports luminaries – Byrd, Big Papi, Gronk, Brady and Bobby – showed up in downtown Newburyport last week at the corner of State and Pleasant streets. At least they were there in the imagination of local painter Richard Burke Jones. The...
Ocean Plunges Raise Money
PLUM ISLAND – Normally this time of year, the fish, whales and seagulls have the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean all to themselves. But lately, humans have been crashing into the waves as if it were summer. All to raise money. Last week, on Monday, one of the...
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