Rockport News

Linda Sanders, the woman serving as town administrator in the Central Massachusetts community of Ashby, has accepted an invitation from Rockport's selectmen to become the town's fourth permanent town administrator.

The woman now serving as town administrator in the Central Mass. community of Ashby has been selected by Rockport's selectmen to become the town's fourth permanent administrator.

Gov. Deval Patrick appears to be starting to get it: Massachusetts taxpayers, from Gloucester to Great Barrington, Rockport to Rehoboth, are tapped out.

Twenty-three members of Rockport High School's Class of 1959 and their guests - including teacher Paul Gahm SEmD enjoyed a festive reunion at Roy Moore's Fish Shack last month.

Are you interested in taking a South African "photo safari?" Playing rounds of golf at Cape Ann golf clubs? Are you interested in acquiring paintings and other works by local artists? More than $66,000 worth of donated items will be up for bid tonight at the annual goods and services auction for the Rockport Chamber of Commerce - slated this year ...

The annual goods and services auction for the Rockport Chamber of Commerce takes place tomorrow Nov.

A young man already facing felony charges stemming from his alleged role in a Bearskin Neck burglary this summer was arrested again after admitting he broke into the YMCA Ben Beyea Youth & Teen Center over the weekend.

John Terelak, an American impressionist, grew up in Boston, where he remembers his youth as a time filled with sports and athletic prowess.

Police are still trying to sort out the circumstances that led to a Boston man's wild Sunday morning ride - when he lost control of his car on Haven Avenue, tore through a garden, clipped a shed, then launched over a fence and granite wall before coming to rest at the base of a tree in a former selectman's back yard.

A Rockport man was arrested in the IGA market parking lot early Sunday after he reportedly got into a verbal argument with two women and struck one of them.

A firefighter who's been part of Rockport's Fire Department for more than three decades has been named by his peers to lead the department.

A recent phone call from the new owner of a property at 224 Lafayette St. in Salem concerning its history, prompted this look back at a series of high-profile - and still unsolved - murders that occurred on the North Shore between 1932 and 1963.

The Rockport Navy Committee didn't get the ship's visit members had been hoping for - and duties over Harvest Festival weekend Oct.

If Orlando Pacheco is selected Rockport's next town administrator, he would strive to improve the community's information technology systems, aggressively pursue grants - and aim to keep politics out of the chief executive's daily decision-making processes.

Ann Fisk, one of Rockport's most respected and admired civic activists, died peacefully in her home Oct.

The Jupiter String Quartet, comprised of two sisters and one's husband, will kick off a new three-concert series on Sunday at the Rockport Art Association.

A Rockport man who police say frequently dressed as a ninja was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to a pair of weapons charges.

Iraqi Abdul Sattar Younus, 33, made his first visit to the United States last week - and found a far different face of America than he had ever known in his native land.

The Rockport High School DECA group is selling tickets for its month-long raffle, starting Nov.

It's being called Gloucester's second charter school. The proposed super North Shore agricultural-vocational high school, whose leaders are asking for a $2.7 million commitment from the city by December, is dividing local leaders still battling to stop an incoming charter school.