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  • MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER IN NEWBURYPORT
    MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER IN NEWBURYPORT
    October 7, 2011

    Long‐time Newburyport resident Marilyn Flaherty is a three time breast cancer survivor. She was first diagnosed in 1982 when her children were only six and eight years old. Ten years later, working as Office Manager in the office of the N ...

  • Emma Andrews Library’s Fall Local Author Series
    Emma Andrews Library’s Fall Local Author Series
    September 29, 2011

    The Emma Andrews Library, on the corner of Purchase and Marlboro Streets, kicked off its Fall Local Author Series with a speaker who hails from far away and just down the street. An Irish woman, Aine Greaney who has lived in Newburyport fo ...

  • Blogging for Business
    Blogging for Business
    September 19, 2011

    To Blog or Not to Blog? Is blogging passe in this age of Facebook and Twitter? Should you start a blog for your small business? How do you do it? The Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce provided a seminar on blogging with iMarc's Nils ...

  • Dolce
    Dolce, a Feline Story
    September 8, 2011

    Dolce Sweetness is  . . . a Feline Foundling  By Kathleen Downey Jan DeWitt had just turned onto Gardner Street in Salisbury the Friday before Hurricane Irene blew through the ...

  • Green Newburyport – Part III
    Green Newburyport – Part III
    June 22, 2011

    While municipal efforts are just launching, private investments in conservation and renewable energy in Newburyport are flourishing. In this third installment, we take a look at organizations already practicing and growing green.

  • Video Report: “Rip It n’ Clip It” for Nate Bibaud
    Video Report: “Rip It n’ Clip It” for Nate Bibaud
    June 19, 2011

    The "Rip It n' Clip It" Event took place on June 17th, 2011 at the Amesbury Sport Park. Participants included Newburyport Mayor Donna Holaday, Amesbury Mayor Thatcher Keezer, Essex County Sheriff Frank Cousins, Provident Bank CEO Charlie C ...

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    Newburyport Youth Services
    May 26, 2011

    Serving the City’s Younger Citizens: Newburyport Youth Services By Kathleen Downey On a raw and dreary April afternoon during Newburyport’s school vacation week, two classrooms inside the Kelley School were ...

  • Word from the Waterfront
    Word from the Waterfront
    April 8, 2011

    Newburyport hosted Lt. Governor Tim Murray and Massachusetts' Seaport Advisory Council Executive Secretary Louis Elisa to receive a $1.98M grant to restore the waterfront boardwalk bulkhead.

  • The Newburyport Street Tree Committee
    The Newburyport Street Tree Committee
    April 6, 2011

    Creating an Urban Forest The Newburyport Street Tree Committee By Kathleen Downey Slender, upright “twigs” stand on sidewalks throughout Newburyport, each attached to a stake for support with a white ...