Essex News

Essex has a number of unique land development issues - including the creation of a zoning overlay district along John Wise Avenue, and the potential development of Conomo Point.

A van illegally passed a school bus that was picking up an autistic child on Eastern Avenue yesterday.

An Island Road resident defended his home against a rabid raccoon Sunday night. The resident first called the police at 7:12 p.m to report that a rabid raccoon had entered his home.

A light northeasterly breeze blows across the Rowley clam flats on this early summer morning, just enough to keep the midges and deer flies in a holding pattern.

If you've driven past the Essex Fire Department while members were washing their engines, you may have noticed something different - there's a new fire engine in town.

The bell sits outside the Visitors Center across the street from the museum. Written on the bell in a black marker was "Tiana loves Bob" and another expletive-laced comment about Tiana.

As a gallon of milk approaches $4 and gasoline exceeds that price, another sign of the tighter times is the increased demand at North Shore food pantries.

A Gloucester woman is facing a charge for a third offense of drunk driving after police in Essex pulled her over last night.

An expansive red tide along the New England coast has abated, allowing Massachusetts to reopen some of its most productive shellfish beds.

"That child has been my world," Kristen A. LaBrie said of her son Jeremy. LaBrie was charged with child endangerment.

A Coral Hill Road resident was playing with something inside her Jeep Wrangler when she lost control of the vehicle and it rolled over on Pond Street at 6:38 p.m. Monday.

Police say they caught two Melrose teens Wednesday as they were attempting to break into a house on Centennial Grove at 8:26 p.m. The 18-year-olds, Felipe Moraes of 73 Essex St.

Police stopped a car at 6:19 a.m. Monday on John Wise Avenue. The driver, Gloucester resident Michael Lorenzana, 31, of Prospect Street, was arrested on a charge of operating a vehicle with a suspended license.

Looking for information on Mary Burnham of Boston. Married John Greenleaf Phinney in Oct 1833.

For six years, a group of high school band parents and bikers known as the Danvers Falcon Riders used to hold a charity motorcycle run to support their children's music and art programs.

A special showing of vintage wedding gowns from the Peabody Historical Society 's collection will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 28 and 29, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The exhibit, called "A Century of Brides: ...

Maria Benotti of Essex, who serves as artistic director of music at Eden's Edge, also founded the music ensemble 27 years ago.

Essex elementary students walking to school from Western Avenue may find themselves walking on a sidewalk in the near future.

California is about to join Massachusetts as the only states to allow gay couples to get married.

The Massachusetts Senate has cast a lopsided vote in favor of a bill designed to jump-start the state's life sciences industry.