Education

As vice chair of the MA House Ways & Means Committee, Rep. Ann Margaret Ferrante sat down with Cricket Editor Erika Brown about budget cuts in Washington, DC, and how they’re going to impact state and local initiatives ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Manchester Essex boys tennis team earned a top-three seed in the MIAA Div. 4 Tournament with a memorable regular season, blazed through the …

More than 150 teachers, coaches, and staff members in the Manchester Essex Regional School District received Golden Hornet Awards last week, part of an annual fundraising campaign by the Spaulding …

Ready to Dance the Night (and Rain) Away

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The seemingly endless rain broke just in time to let the dashing, the sparkly, and the perfectly elegant juniors and seniors of MERHS shine as they partook in the traditional pre-prom photo shoot at …

Class of 2025: Well Wishes, Well Done!

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The Class of 2025 at Manchester Essex Regional High School celebrated a joyous Commencement Ceremony last Friday. Those who’ve watched this class grow have seen an outsized sense of camaraderie, …

This week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, a brand-new education program set sail in Essex, turning fifth graders into full-fledged coastal defenders—and future friends.   The program also …

We’re Honored

Last week seven members of MERSD’s Class of 2025 were honored as part of the North Shore Chamber of Commerce’s North Shore Honor Scholars event at the Double Tree Hilton in Danvers …

The Manchester-by-the-Sea Annual Town Meeting, held Monday night at Memorial School, lasted just over three hours with residents approving most everything on the warrant. About 425 residents …

The proposed budgets for the Town and the School District have been approved by the Finance Committee, the Select Board and the School Committee. Months of work with many public meetings have …

The Manchester Essex School Committee approved a modified budget plan for fiscal year 2026 that will keep a principal at the Middle School.   The vote was unanimous at Tuesday’s meeting at …

On Tuesday, frustration was the theme of the night as the Manchester Essex Regional School Committee and school district officials wrestled with how to present an FY26 MERSD budget in a year with …

School and financial officials from Essex and Manchester-By-The-Sea gathered at Essex Town Hall on February 26 to discuss ways to attack the budget problem the Manchester Essex Regional School …

  A s work continues to finalize the proposed FY26 Town and School District budgets, the rising cost of health insurance poses a serious challenge.   Double-digit increases have …

Residents of both Essex and Manchester urged the Manchester Essex Regional School Committee to propose and approve a 9 percent increase to the budget for fiscal year 2026. More than 50 people …

With February knocking on the door and a mid-March deadline to complete the process of crafting proposed budgets for the Fiscal Year 2026 (starts July 1, 2025), the debates over the numbers are …

Preliminary Budget Presentations

While only December, work on the upcoming budgets for Fiscal Year 2026, which begins July 2025 and goes through June 2026, is well underway. Voters will review and approve these budgets at the Annual …

The Manchester Essex Regional High School has earned a Bronze distinction on the 2024 Advanced Placement (AP) School Honor Roll for the district's track record for successfully expanding advanced …

The Essex Elementary School community has happily welcomed a new, permanent principal this school year, after two years with an interim principal.   Mrs. Kimberly Provost, comes to EES with a …

With all the challenges surrounding public school district budgets, it’s hard to zero in on the very particular line that separates the funding required for basic school district operations and …

The Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum (EHSSM) has launched a new hands-on education program designed to bring together 5th graders from Manchester and Essex as they prepare to unite in …

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