Don’t look now, but the fall season will be over for the Manchester Essex field hockey, football and soccer teams at the end of October. Let’s take a look at where these four (very successful) …
The Massachusetts Housing Appeals Committee has ruled in favor of developer Geoffrey Engler and the SLV housing project proposed for Shingle Place Hill off School Street in Manchester’s Limited …
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 …
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and HAWC (“Healing Abuse Working for Change” kicked it off on October 3 with its annual Breakfast to Heal. During the event, HAWC …
As we get closer to the November 18th Special Town Meeting scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the high school, more and more citizens are starting to gather information on the articles that will be before …
The Cape Ann Museum has begun the painstaking process of packing up its original downtown campus on Pleasant Street to make way for an historic, $18 million modernization and renovation that will …
This fall will be a hard one to top, even for a team that was itself hard to top during the 2024 regular season. The Manchester Essex golf team just completed one of its best seasons in recent memory, finishing up with a record of 12-2, just a hair behind rival Hamilton-Wenham for the top spot ...
A throng of eager spectators braved cold and “spitty” rains on Sunday for the 15th Annual Cardboard Boat Regatta behind Town Hall to cheer on home-made cardboard racing boats with names …
Almost a year ago, a subtle change took place on Central Street in Manchester. Molisse Realty Group, a familiar name in local real estate, began operating under a new set of signs bearing the …
While the main attraction to the Special Town Meeting scheduled for November 18 at the high school is the proposed zoning overlay districts allowing multi-family housing in four small areas of town …
There’s a lot going on this season, including the state-mandated consideration in November of a zoning change to encourage added housing in Manchester, what’s going on this year with the …
Consistency has led to excellence for the Manchester Essex golf team in 2024. With just a pair of matches left in the regular season, the Hornets have amassed an impressive 10-2 record and were …
Residents will decide to approve or reject a new zoning bylaw that establishes proposed overlay districts in four areas of town at the November 18 Special Town Meeting. The proposed districts have …
On Saturday, September 28 Manchester’s DPW and fire and police departments hosted a Touch-a-Truck event behind the Town Hall. The display of motorcycles, ambulances, fire apparatus, snow removal …
The Manchester-by-the-Sea Museum officially kicked off its 2024-2025 lecture season last Thursday with a presentation on the 19th Century proliferation of—and Manchester’s successful efforts to …
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 …
As an old children’s television show song went, “Go, go go! You can’t go fast if you go too slow!” That was the theme last Friday for the packed Happy as a Clam …
Twenty-three years ago, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, Americans learned the country had been attacked on home soil by terrorists. In Essex (above) and Manchester (left), Fire Department and public …
Wednesday marked the official end of summer, at least for kiddos and their parents who headed back to the official first day of the 2024-2025 academic school year at (from left) Manchester Memorial …
The 4th of July went off without a hitch last Thursday in Manchester by the Sea, with the traditional morning parade, fireworks off Singing Beach the evening before the big day, and festivities around Cape Ann and Beverly Farms.