Ipswich News

In a decision last week, the FCC ruled in favor of the petitions as a group because it determined that Comcast faced competition from Verizon .

Town leaders want to let residents know there will be no townwide Fourth of July celebration held on the Common this year, due to the fact that no one stepped forward to organize the festivities after retiring ...

Native clams will be on the menu just in time for the holiday weekend, after the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries declared yesterday that area shellfish are free of red tide and once again safe for ...

Aspiring entertainers take note: A performing-arts program is coming to town. This summer, youngsters looking to beat the heat and improve their social skills can sign up for Performing Arts Programs Inc.

A mother and her three children escaped a two-alarm fire at 10 Harry Homans Drive on Thursday night.

Like many people, Henry Clay has experienced prejudice and hatred in his life. His experience happened in seventh grade, when he heard homophobic remarks around school.

It took Gov. Deval Patrick three days to roll out his ambitious education reform plan this week.

In Ipswich, voters approved a property tax increase to provide more money for the schools by a solid margin.

Lines of severe thunderstorms advanced across southern and central New England on Monday, bringing scattered reports of small hail along with high winds and downpours of as much as an inch of rain in one hour.

By SANDRA E. CONSTANTINE sconstantine@repub.com SOUTH HADLEY - The trial date for former Department of Public Works Superintendent Gregory Kereakoglow on sexual assault charges that had been set to start ...

There was a time when Essex County was defined by dairy farms. Horses may outnumber them now, but cows were once the heart and soul of many large estates, and one of the oldest farms remaining is making sure ...

Jennifer Wright is looking for volunteers. The first-term selectman is asking that people interested in serving on five local boards - three established committees and two new ones - contact the selectmen's ...

Here's an incentive to take to the woods this weekend: Tomorrow marks the first-ever Get Outdoors Day, a nationwide effort to inspire and motivate Americans - especially children - to get outside.

Fortunately for museums and collectors, the Chinese Cultural Revolution didn't destroy all of the furniture, art and artifacts created over hundreds of years in Tibet.

Sonja Dahlgren Pryor, the artistic director and conductor of the Chorus North Shore, says she wanted to make a musical statement about the urgency to be good caretakers of the environment.

It's going to be a long, bumpy ride from South Florida to Massachusetts for two brothers.

In 1806, a group of nearly two dozen Essex County attorneys gathered for the purpose of forming the first Essex County Bar Association.

A Newbury man was arrested yesterday minutes after he allegedly acted as if he had a gun, ordered a pharmacist to lie down, then ran off with dozens of bottles of pain pills.

Aerial salt marsh spraying kicked off yesterday and will run through June 18. The purpose is to control salt marsh mosquitoes by killing their larvae.

The biggest question facing the city today is whether voters will pass a $2.5 million Proposition 2 1 / 2 override.