THE OREGON BADLANDS – Mike Wilson took off running last Thursday on his 3,000-mile journey across the country to raise money for his favorite charity, Lucy’s Bus in Amesbury. After a false start from Santa Monica, CA, that led him on a route across the desert, Mike...
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Why Writers and Readers Love the Newburyport Literary Festival
NEWBURYPORT – Crowds of book lovers will not roam the streets of this old seaport again this spring looking for their favorite or soon-to-be favorite authors and poets at the Newburyport Literary Festival. But that does not mean that the beloved and resilient...
Join Mike and The Town Common On a Run Across America
Michael Wilson, 28, who lives in Eliot, ME and works as a personal trainer in Portsmouth, NH is running 3,250 miles from the Santa Monica, CA pier to the Newburyport waterfront to raise money for Lucy’s Love Bus in Amesbury that serves children and adults with cancer....
Plum Island Roasters Fights to Stay Open
NEWBURYPORT – It looked like just another busy day at the Plum Island Roasters Coffee House last Friday. A steady stream of coffee lovers poured in for a better-than-normal day. Owner Bruce Vogel was behind the counter, serving coffee, bantering with regulars and...
Join Mike and The Town Common On a Run Across America
REGIONAL - Michael Wilson is running 3,250 miles from the Santa Monica, CA pier to the Newburyport waterfront to raise money for Lucy’s Love Bus in Amesbury that serves children and adults with cancer. Wilson, 28, who lives in Eliot, ME and works as a personal trainer...
Link House On the Front Line of Addiction Epidemic
REGIONAL – When Dr. Gary Gastman suggested to his Link House board that the addiction recovery and treatment organization should open its first out-patient facility, he projected that the Amesbury Center for Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment Services would...
Pontine Theatre Presents THE GREEN SHAY by George Savary Wasson: A story of old Kittery Point, Maine
PORTSMOUTH NH: April 9 -11, Pontine Theatre brings George Savary Wasson’s early 1905 novel, The Green Shay to the stage. The two-person production features Pontine Co-Directors, Greg Gathers and Marguerite Mathews. Wasson’s books have been described as “the most...
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