SOMEWHERE IN IDAHO -- Mike passed through southern Idaho, closing in on 500 miles of running across America to help Lucy’s Bus in Amesbury. The Town Common caught up with him in Bliss, ID. Along his journey, Make has had battle packs of dogs and cold temperatures in...
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Charter School Head Named Chamber’s Educator of the Year
REGIONAL – Two years ago, Jonnie Lyn Evans was promoted by the board of River Valley Charter School to be the school’s executive director. Before her first year was over, her school was shut down and the students and teachers were forced into remote learning. This...
Katy Ives Takes the Reins at the Chamber of Commerce
REGIONAL — Kathleen O’Connor Ives graduated from law school not because she wanted to practice law. Her interests were in government and specifically environmental issues. She won a seat on the Newburyport City Council in 2007 before she took the bar exam. So, it was...
Mike Wilson Faces The Rockies
BOISE, ID – Mike Wilson was happy to cross the Oregon state line into Idaho last week on his 3,000-mile run across America to raise money for his favorite charity, Lucy’s Bus in Amesbury. He expected to begin the journey across the Rocky Mountains in the next few...
Mike Wilson Battles the Badlands
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...
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...
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