Ipswich News

From our southern Essex County neighbor Ipswich comes a new standard in public employee contract boondoggles.

For many in New England, it's tradition in early December to visit a farm or roadside stand and pick out a Christmas tree.

Thanks to generous donations, the Salvation Army Holiday Fund raised $7,749.50 so far to help Essex County families during this holiday season.

Many sounds and styles of music and dance offered by more than 150 artists will help bring a bit of Christmas magic to the Rogers Center for the Arts during the 2009 production of Not Your Typical Silent Night later this month.

Santa Claus must be exhausted. Jolly St. Nick exerted so much energy making his grand entrance on the North Shore that he will need the next two weeks just to recuperate.

Timony Grammar School students Melanie Conner-Myers and David Raucci will join more than 200 other young musicians from 40 communities across the Merrimack Valley and North Shore on Sunday, Dec.

A former United States senator has been discovering his roots in a Colchester village.

The ninth annual Run for the Pies is in the history books. More than 300 runners and walkers were greeted with unseasonably pleasant weather for the annual Thanksgiving Day fundraiser for the Ipswich Community Food Pantry and the YMCA.

Foliage is for the tourists we all know the best thing about fall in New England is the beer.

In the Nov. 26 edition of the Ipswich Chronicle it was reported that Ipswich town officials, the School Department and the Electric Light Department, met recently to discuss how currently there are no buyers for the $1.6 million bond to fund the school's portion of the wind turbine project.

Santa Claus will be coming to Gloucester on Sunday, riding high on the Fire Department's new ladder truck as part of the annual Santa Claus Parade and tree lighting ceremony.

With apologies to the late Ted Kennedy, Ed Fagan's hopes may still live, but his dream appears ready to die.

Students with asthma are breathing easier. And less toxic substances are spewing out into the air from the tailpipes of school buses.

Candidate for governor Charlie Baker of Swampscott has chosen veteran legislator Richard Tisei of Wakefield as his choice for lieutenant governor.

The Masons of the John T. Heard Lodge will not spend Thanksgiving Day as most of us will, in a food-induced coma from too much turkey.

This weekend, the North Shore United Way will produce a fundraiser - and "friendraiser" - in Ipswich, featuring a performance by the Jen Thayer Band.

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.

Careless disposal of a cigarette is the likely cause of a two-alarm fire at a Great Neck home more than two weeks ago, fire officials said.

The current "The Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel" exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum provides both a dramatic contrast to the outfits and fashion associated with the very early settlers of our fair region and a glimpse at where the early rebellion against its inherent plainness would eventually lead us.

The cause of a fire at a Pleasant Street home on Saturday is under investigation.