Wednesday, August 11, 2010 | View Comments
New Eden Collaborative and Transition Newburyport hosted their first Local Flavor Community Potluck Picnic this past Sunday at First Parish Church in Newbury. A beautiful garden backdrop, a canopy of trees that swayed gently in a subtle breeze—carrying the Celtic sounds of two talented, unostentatious musicians—people from the immediate community and afar, a sociable dog named Chloe, and lots of amazing food prepared with locally grown, fresh organic ingredients all coalesced to set the tranquil summer scene.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | View Comments
Fittingly, Davis Lee joins me at Plum Island Coffee Roasters after his morning swim off of Plum Island. He doesn’t appear to be waterlogged; in fact, he’s looking crisp in his striped summer shirt and light-colored trousers. Then Lee tells me, as if fessing-up, that although he typically swims for three hours, he swam for only two this morning. That’s two hours, propelling his body through the ocean, an exercise that he began shortly after 5:00 a.m. (I wonder how a short-changed hour could possibly lessen this feat.) Though he’s a driven guy, Lee is humble. The wellspring for his humility may lie in a little swim that he has planned for this September: the English Channel.
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Friday, July 9, 2010 | View Comments
Newburyport-Today is pleased to be working with WNBP to promote our calendar listings on a weekly basis. Listen for our promotions running every Friday and Saturday on the station. We’ll try to keep you informed on all that’s going on. If you are a community group or non-profit organization in the Newburyport area, please send [...]
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Saturday, June 12, 2010 | View Comments
Newburyport-Today is pleased to be working with WNBP to promote our calendar listings on a weekly basis. Listen for our promotions running every Friday and Saturday on the station. We’ll try to keep you informed on all that’s going on. If you are a community group or non-profit organization in the Newburyport area, please send [...]
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 | View Comments
Joppa Flats Education Center’s education coordinator David Larson will present a slide program and lecture, “Washington’s Olympic Peninsula,” at Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center on Wednesday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m.
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