Rockport News

A Rockport man was sentenced to probation stemming from an incident last August when he was observed by police selling heroin.

The Rockport Public Library's summer "Meet the Author" series reaches its halfway point on Monday with a visit from Ulrich Boser who will be in town to discuss his book, "The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Art Theft". The infamous Boston theft stands as the world's largest unsolved art crime, said Library Director Hope ...

Emergency officials say a swift response and adherence to proper protocols helped prevent injuries when a potentially dangerous military flare washed ashore on Rockport's slice of Long Beach.

For two performances, Rockport actress Nancy Carroll will reprise her role of Joan Didion in "The Year of Magical Thinking" at Gloucester Stage Company.

Gardens with ocean views will be featured in this year's tour presented by the Rockport Garden Club.

People items should be sent to the Gloucester Daily Times, Whittemore Street, Gloucester, MA 01930, via e-mail to gdt@gloucestertimes.com or faxed to 978-282-4397. Jason Stigliano has graduated summa cum laude with distinction in philosophy from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and was awarded the Stephen Coburn Pepper Prize in philosophy.

A 17-year-old Danvers girl was arrested early Saturday after police stopped her vehicle at the Five Corners at 1:14 a.m. Angela M. Morgan, of 52 Purchase St., Apt.

The red, white and blue and a whole lot of colorful "horribles" will be on parade in Gloucester and other Cape Ann communities beginning tomorrow, when residents throughout the region celebrate our nation's independence with parades and fireworks, and even a performance by a former "American Idol" hopeful.

How bad has the weather been this week? For the first time in 28 years, it forced the Rockport Chamber Music Festival to cancel a concert.

A state overseer is putting a stop to the increased fees the Essex Regional Retirement Board has been charging local towns after it attempted to unilaterally reclassify police and fire dispatchers.

Summer on Cape Ann - home to hundreds of artists and two major art associations - offers children a wide range of offerings in which to spend those free summer hours and express themselves.

Eight bands and "many, many floats" will make their way through downtown Rockport next weekend as part of the Rockport Firemen's Association annual Independence Day parade.

Girl Scout Troop 408 will hold a car wash fundraiser Saturday, June 27, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Department of Public Works barn.

Granite Savings Bank is scheduled to open its new $3.7 million home next week, bank officials say, moving the facility up Main Street and out of the downtown for the first time in the institution's 125-year history.

A Granite Street woman was arrested Saturday after police responded to a medical emergency call at 4:01 a.m. Shoshana A. Frost, 27, of 212 Granite St., was transported to Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester with a head injury, and later arrested and charged with domestic assault and battery and malicious destruction of property over $250. An ...

With the threat of litigation weighing heavily, embattled Selectman Ellen Canavan issued a public apology to the owners of the former Carnegie Library in response to a comment she made on the Times' Web Site regarding their intention to sell the home for six times the price they paid the town to acquire it.

Local youngsters will have a unique opportunity to learn about the sky over Rockport next Wednesday, when the Museum of Science Starlab portable planetarium is set up in the Rockport Elementary School gym.

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Get out of the investment business. That's the advice town officials across the North Shore are giving the Essex Regional Retirement Board.

Two 13-year-old girls - reported missing after they apparently walked away from Rockport Middle School after being dropped off by their parents there yesterday morning - were found today in Gloucester following extensive air and ground search efforts by state and local authorities.