Rowley News

State Sen. Bruce Tarr will be in town on Monday at 10 a.m. at Rowley Town Hall to listen to the budget issues of concerned parents.

The inspirational musical partnership of Susie Burke and David Surette returns to FINCH tomorrow to celebrate the holidays.

A last minute grassroots effort brought more than 30 parents to Monday night's selectmen meeting to enlist their help in putting an end to the state cuts to regional transportation funding that is forcing severe cuts at Triton Regional High School.

The following items were recorded in the Rowley police log: Petere A. Fahey, 51, 140 Main St., Salisbury, was issued a summons Thursday at 2:09 p.m. on charges of driving a motor vehicle without a license.

The following items were recorded in the log of the Newburyport police: Candace L. Belmer, 40, 5 Sylvester St., Newburyport, was issued a summons Monday at 4:13 p.m. on charges of driving after license suspension.

The following item was recorded in the Newburyport police log: Lindsay E. Merrill, 30, 18 Harris St., 7, Newburyport, was arrested Friday at 1:06 p.m. on a warrant.

The Rowley Parks & Recreation Committee invites all adults and kids aged 16-plus to join in on pickup volleyball games for the months of December through March.

The following item was recorded in the log of the Newburyport police: Anthony R. Smith, 28, 131 Elm St., Salisbury, was arrested yesterday at 1:06 a.m. and charged with two counts of breaking and entering in the night for felony and two counts of possession of class E drugs.

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.

Mass Audubon's Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport celebrates the opening of The Lookout, a new family-friendly green space designed and built for nature exploration, with an open house Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the center at 1 Plum Turnpike.

A Rowley hardware store employee has been sentenced to spend a year in jail after being found guilty of four counts of possession of child pornography.

The Rowley Board of Health office has a limited quantity of the H1N1 vaccine available.

Remember these? The first VCR debuted in 1956. 1956 : Year in which the first VCR was introduced.

The following item was recorded in the log of the Amesbury police: Gladys A. Duchemin, 77, 300 Main St., Amesbury, was issued a summons Sunday at 6:48 p.m. on charges of failure to stop or yield, driving without a license in possession and driving without a license.

Artisans in the Open's 12th annual Holiday Fair is set for Friday, Dec. 4, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday, Dec.

The town will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. on Dec. 3 in the Town Hall auditorium to discuss the first increase in water rates in two years.

A $42-million low- and moderate-income senior housing development, which includes $2.9 million in federal stimulus funds, broke ground Monday amid picketing from local union construction workers who protested the project's hiring of non-union, non-local contractors and subcontractors.

The blinding rain and whipping winds didn't stop last week's dedication ceremony for the town's newest fire truck - an emergency one typhoon pumper truck.

Police from Ipswich, Hamilton and Rowley, along with Ipswich firefighters and state police canine units, turned out to search early yesterday after an 86-year-old man was reported missing.

A long-derelict parcel of land in the village center, once slated as a site for affordable housing, is on the market.