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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...
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...
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...
GEORGETOWN — Three Georgetown firefighters recently graduated from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy Call/ Volunteer training program. Firefighters Celia Xie, along with Connor and Chad Cameron, who are brothers, are among 21 graduates from the MFA’s...
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA – For decades hikers of all ages have made the trek up the 1.5-mile loop of Beaverdam Hill to marvel at two giant boulders that millennia ago were pulled from the bedrock and deposited by the last glacier that helped shape the North Shore...
NEWBURYPORT — Sgt. Megan Tierney was promoted recently .Sgt. Tierney began her career with the Newburyport Police Department as a dispatcher in 2010, and became a sworn police officer in 2012. She was assigned as a school resource officer from 2016 to 2020. Tierney...
WEST NEWBURY – On a cold morning last week with snow piled under the feet of the horses and humans, Andrea Moore-Dickison had just finished combing out the mane of a miniature horse at the New England Equine Rescue North (NEER North). “It was all matted,” she...
SALISBURY – This week, the state of Texas celebrates the 186th anniversary of the 13-day Battle of the Alamo, celebrating historic figures like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and Bill Travis. Thanks to work by the Salisbury Historical Commission, we should also add the...
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