Essex News

Want to run for mayor, city councilor or for a seat on the board of selectmen in your community? Spend five or 10 minutes with your city or town clerk, and you're likely to learn everything you need to know.

The Building Center is looking for a new chief executive again. Less than a year after Ken Wilbanks was hired to run the venerable downtown home improvement and construction supply company, the Georgia native this month left the organization to return to the consulting business.

They are the classrooms that were left behind nearly 40 years ago when Peabody High School moved to its current home on Lowell Street.

The timing of today's ceremonies to honor our veterans in Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester and Essex is etched in stone, with the various programs centering on or culminating around the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

Hundreds of years ago when Andover was settled and established, a woman named Anne Dudley Bradstreet made a name for herself here.

At 42, Gloucester resident Ilene "Leeny" Altman has figured out what she wants to do when she grows up.

After six years of presiding over both Sacred Heart Parish in Manchester and St.

Two questions focus on the cost for consulting work on Conomo Point. Another asks residents for the money to buy a new police cruiser.

Ray Lamont I had a few "happy thought" dollars to offer at our Gloucester Rotary meeting this past Tuesday.

Essex officials are asking residents for more money to continue looking into the future of Conomo Point.

Since September, a Beverly resident has tapped into the region's fertile music scene to cultivate a band to play an end-of-year concert at a local restaurant.

Please excuse Josh Simpson if he momentarily sneaks away from the "The Art of Fire" festival at the Peabody Essex Museum next weekend.

A Gloucester man was sentenced to serve more than a month in jail by Judge Joseph Jennings in Gloucester District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to charges of violating a restraining order.

In Essex, the Youth Commission will hold its annual Halloween celebration today.

It takes a village to make a village. That, it seems, is one of the conclusions to be drawn from a report by Essex's Long-Term Planning Committee, titled the Essex Village Initiative.

The staff at Salon Bogart in Manchester is hosting "Hot to Trot," a dance benefit for Wind-rush Farm in Boxford, which offers therapeutic equitation for the disabled.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently reported that the surface temperature of the ocean during August was the warmest ever on record.

If you haven't already seen the new Manchester Essex Regional High and Middle School, you can educate yourself about the building at tomorrow's Community Open House.

A Route 114 restaurant promises to be the place to go tomorrow to sample great food and drink, all while supporting school programs.

Ray Lamont The letter from Rockport resident Warren Salinger on this page raises a very basic question: He asks why, a week ago today, the Times did not include a news story about the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama, an honor announced and reported the previous morning.