SALISBURY – On the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday last week, 32 people from 24 families, including a six-year-old boy, two dogs, a parrot and a ferret, came to the Hilton Senior Center in shock and sleep deprived. They had been roused from their beds after...
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Town Could Face Big Legal Fees Over Mello Fight
GEORGETOWN – When Orlando Pacheco became the Town Administrator this month, one of the thorniest challenges he inherited was the two-plus-year-old fight over the proposal by J. Mello Trash Disposal Corp. to build a 500-ton transfer station on the narrow Carleton Road...
Plenty To Do On Frozen Lake Gardner In Amesbury
A frigid sunny Sunday didn’t stop anyone from bundling up to enjoy some ice fishing and skate time on the lake.
Town Admin Wheel Continues To Turn In Wenham
WENHAM - The Wenham Select Board finds itself in a familiar position as it starts the search for a new town administrator with Thomas Younger back in the saddle as the town’s interim Town Administrator. The Board parted ways with former Town Administrator Ryan Ferrara...
Pine Grove Players Present… Beauty And The Beast JR
Sports Photos by Peter McClelland
Learning From Lessons Of Hate: Opportunity For Holocaust/Genocide Education In Our Schools Now
Fire Destroys Beach Motel, Residences
SALISBURY BEACH – On the northern edge of the parking lot of the popular Pavilion events center, Michael’s Oceanfront Motel, an apartment house and three homes, were burned to the ground early Monday morning in a nine-alarm fire that brought firefighters from...
A Whale Of A Tale
SALISBURY BEACH – Mike Paige was preparing to teach a business law course at Bentley College when he got a text last week from the Marine Mammal Rescue Team at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH, asking him if he could help a stranded mammal on the beach. Paige,...
Belleville Roots Concerts Are Back
NEWBURYPORT – It has been two years since the popular Irish band, Dervish, brought its brand of Irish pub music to the Belleville Congregational Church on High Street for local music lovers to clap, stomp and sing along. That Pandemic-created void is about to end...
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