While a 4-1 start to the season is nothing to sneeze at, a 9-7 loss to Ipswich on April 5 provided the Manchester Essex boys lacrosse team with its most important lesson of the spring season so far. …
Residents got a taste of what is in store for certain areas of Town with the flooding that occurred this past winter. While no especially large storm struck, extensive high waters flooded …
At the Manchester Club’s April dinner, Manchester-by-the-Sea Harbormaster Bion Pike was the featured speaker and brought the membership up to date on various initiatives and state/federal …
Residents of Manchester-by-the-Sea will get another chance to learn about the MBTA zoning requirements and ask questions of the Task Force at a community forum on Saturday, April 27. The forum …
The Annual Town Meeting (ATM) is set for next Wednesday, April 24. All voters are asked to come to the Memorial School for the 6:30 p.m. start. (Come early to avoid the rush and you can …
What happens on the ice each Sunday around 1 p.m. at Dorothy Talbot Rink in Gloucester may come as a bit of a surprise to some. It’s at that time every week that 40 young hockey hopefuls …
Manchester Fire Chief Jake McNeilly, members of the Manchester by the Sea Fire Department and Manchester Harbormaster Bion Pike participated in training designed to improve the department's response …
Successfully completing the Boston Marathon is a true accomplishment for many Cape Ann residents who run or walk those 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to downtown Boston. T his year …
The Massachusetts Municipal Association supports Gov. Maura Healey’s policy-heavy, $4 billion housing bond bill, but there are pockets of concern among some city and town leaders, especially as …
A Salem District Court judge swiftly addressed the future of the Manchester Community Center (MCC) last week, ruling that the organization had violated its commercial lease by overstaying its …
School expenditures account for roughly 50% of Manchester’s total operating budgets. This is typical for a community with percentages running even higher in some municipalities. …
Manchester’s Annual Town Meeting will take place this year on Wednesday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m. at Manchester Memorial School in the gymnasium. Every year, hundreds of Manchester …
Lawmakers tasked with negotiating details of a major firearms bill left their work open to the public last week—a move that broke from opaque traditions on Beacon Hill. A week later …
This week, Manchester's Open Space Committee meeting sought to take the lead on an issue that had dogged local conservation-minded residents for decades: the future of Gordon College’s 130-acre …
The Manchester Harbor Management Plan Task Force also met Monday to deliberate over key issues that arose from a public forum held last month at the ME Regional High School, including the contentious …
Essex Police Department will wear and sell autism awareness patches as part of an Autism Awareness Program in collaboration with the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. The program will …
The public pickleball courts along Summer Street opened for the season as of April 1, and the town of Manchester has released the courts' temporary hours which are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday …
After serving as interim president, Brian Pellinen has been named President of Montserrat College of Art following a year-long national search. Pellinen, 53, stepped in to fill the vacancy left …
Massachusetts has 50 cities and 301 towns across 14 counties, and this week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey swore in Manchester resident and Manchester Essex Regional High School Junior Summer …
Manchester will receive $959,752 in federal funds to support planning and design for future PFAS purification of the town’s municipal water. The funds came as part of a larger, …