Archive for May, 2009

  • Whiny Wednesday by Robin O’Malley: Homemade Fun!
    May 27, 2009

    Editor’s Note – “Whiny Wednesdays” is a weekly series that focuses on giving caregivers fun ideas to do locally.  The result being that Whiny Days are no more!  We are always ...

  • Newburyport PTO Trivia Fundraiser
    May 26, 2009

    True or False? Harvard University originally owned the site where the current Newburyport High School was built? The answer is true! If you knew this and know lots of other fun facts or if you just want a night out with friends, then you ...

  • Townie Tuesday by Gillian Swart: Richard Doyle
    May 26, 2009

    Doyle, who retired six years ago to southern NH, taught history at Newburyport High School for 37 years. He shares the distinction of being a published author from the history department at NHS with Jean Foley Doyle (no relation, but they w ...

  • `Townie Tuesday by Gillian Swart: Tom Jones
    May 19, 2009

    City Councilor-at-Large Tom Jones thought he had a pretty good handle on the process of city government so he ran for City Council four years ago. At least that’s what he thought when he was on the receiving end of city government.

  • Newburyport Chamber’s Annual Meeting – Winner!
    May 14, 2009

    We created Newburyport Today to showcase and promote our City, so it seems a little strange to be promoting ourselves here, but we won an award today, and are so thrilled to be honored in this amazing way! I say "we" because Newburyport Tod ...

  • Townie Tuesday by Gillian Swart – Kerri (Gallagher) Fowler
    May 12, 2009

    Kerri (Gallagher) Fowler is not a big woman, she's five-foot-six-inches and usually weighs about 120 pounds. Still, every summer for the past three years she has slogged 15-pound bags of ice, 30 pounds of Angus beef, countless hotdogs and b ...

  • Townie Tuesday by Gillian Swart: Ghlee Woodworth
    May 5, 2009

    Ghlee Woodworth is 12th generation Newburyport. She went away for a while, to college and to see the world as a volunteer with the Peace Corps, but when she was done seeing all she wanted to see, she returned home.