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This Week’s Townie Tuesday profiles Danniel “Buzzer” Connors: “I remember the Merrimack when it was just a creek,” Daniel “Buzzer” Connors jokes. The Newburyport native has been fishing the sea for more than 35 years. “Newburyport had dirt roads then.”"
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The 2009 Newburyport Tree Lighting put Newburyport residents and visitors in the holiday mood.
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It was easy to shop locally and support all of our great merchants and farmers. We hope you did as well! One of the many things we are thankful for this year is the wonderful community we live in.
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The very joys of Thanksgiving and the coming holidays, family feasts, gathering gifts for loved ones, the hustle and bustle, can also be a source of tension and even dread. By the time we’re toasting in the New Year, we’ve not only gained weight, but also are exhausted and stressed out from party planning, sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, shopping on a tight budget, squeezing into tight clothes, fighting crowds at the mall, and deflecting family dynamics. Exercise can be a way to combat not only those additional pounds we often put on over the holidays, but also the accompanying stress so prevalent this time of year, which itself can lead to more overeating.
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Happy Thanksgiving from the staff, board of directors, volunteers and members of the Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce and Industry! We hope that you enjoy a day complete with friends, family, food and thanks giving.
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During the second weekend in December, Northern Essex Community College will present its 10th annual production of Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol” featuring NECC theater professor Jim Murphy as Scrooge.
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This winter a wide range of Studio Classes and Workshops will be offered at the Newburyport Art Association in a variety of different mediums. The NAA’s art classes are open to students of all ages and skills, and give students the opportunity to work in genres ranging from new impressionism, contemporary realism, abstraction, figuration, new expressionism and more.
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Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center is proud to announce the grand opening of The Lookout, their new family-friendly green space designed and built for nature exploration. Nature lovers of all ages are invited to come to a free Open House at Joppa Flats on Sunday, December 6, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. to experience the fun of this new education room.
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This past month, Anna Jaques Hospital unfurled its Roadmap to Wellness, as part of its popular Women’s Night Out series. Roadmap to Wellness was created to help women identify the roadblocks in their lives that prevent them from implementing healthy changes.
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As the holiday season approaches, Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive in the most fitting way for this seaport town…by boat! Welcome Santa on the Sunday after Thanksgiving as he and Mrs. Claus dock at the boardwalk and begin to ride through downtown Newburyport…then gather in Market Square for the annual tree lighting and carols.
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