As part of our commitment to ensuring the safety and quality of our town’s drinking water, important updates are available in the Town of Manchester’s ongoing efforts to monitor and …
Manchester Harbor has experienced a great deal of positive change over the past 13 years. This includes the introduction of shallow water moorings in 2015, conversion of many single point …
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 …
It may not feel like it, but election season is here, and many openings remain on town boards and committees. In this update, we’re checking in on open seats in Manchester and Essex, as …
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 …
February has proven to mark a key inflection point on the critical $6 million, grant-funded plan to upgrade the Central Street culvert in Manchester, but it hasn’t come without drama. …
The Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association (MIIA), Manchester by-the-Sea’s insurance provider, presented the town with a FY2024 Health and Wellness Award for Excellence in Diversity of …
Numerous construction projects are at various stages of development/completion as reinvestment into the important infrastructure of the Town continues. A status report on these includes the …
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 …
Efforts continue to secure a competitive rate from an electrical supplier that residents will be able to utilize should they choose. Voters gave the green light to move forward with the state …
Essex is inviting the public to participate in an upcoming webinar hosted by the Board of Selectmen and the Planning Board at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January 30. The session will focus on housing …
Last week's 23-page ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) affirming the state’s multi-family zoning by right mandate imposed on 177 municipalities served by public transportation …
The Healey administration filed emergency regulations late Tuesday afternoon to implement the controversial law meant to spur greater housing production, after the state's highest court struck down …
Watching the conflagration unfold in L.A. is sobering at best. It is hard to imagine how one begins again after such widespread destruction. Entire neighborhoods have been reduced to ash. The road to …
Welcome to 2025. The Manchester Select Board and other boards have opened the year with a full slate of items spanning public safety issues with a downtown crosswalk, a possible new future for the …
The controversial MBTA Communities Act is a constitutional law that the attorney general can enforce with legal action, but the measure is "ineffective" until the Healey administration takes another …
The first of the year marks the start in earnest of preparations for the Annual Town Meeting (ATM) and the Annual Local Elections. Per the Town General Bylaw, the ATM is now the fourth Monday in …
A frightening incident of pre-holiday domestic violence resulted in an intense, multi-agency pursuit and arrest in Manchester on Sunday after the mother of a five-year-old reported her daughter kidnapped …