Salisbury News

The following students were named to the fourth-quarter honor roll at St. Thomas Aquinas High School: GRADE 12 High Honors James Donahue of Newburyport Honors Kathryn Brightney of Newburyport and Michael Call of Seabrook GRADE 11 Principal's List Robert McNeil and Charleen Sheehan of Newburyport Honors Robin Dylingowski and Leigh McNeil of ...

As drivers sat still on the Merrimac Street on-ramp to Route 1 south, Michael Vetrano found a silver lining in the regionwide gridlock brought on by yesterday's accident and gasoline spill that shut down Interstate 95 for most of the day.

Police continue to investigate a four-vehicle accident on Interstate 95 that sent 10 people to the hospital and caused a tanker to leak thousands of gallons of gasoline, causing a nightmarish traffic jam and an unknown environmental impact.

For decades pizza lovers have flocked to Salisbury Beach, buying pizza to eat as they enjoyed all the other resources the beach has to offer.

As if on cue, a ray of sunshine broke through the gray cloud cover at 10 a.m. Saturday, lighting up Broadway just in time for kickoff ceremonies at the Beach Front Stage, launching the third annual Sand and Sea Festival at Salisbury Beach Center.

A former employee of Data Resource Group, a company based in Salisbury, Mass., plead guilty today to defrauding Cisco Systems Inc.

If you need some beach castle inspiration, the pros are at Salisbury Beach tomorrow through Sunday.

One of the men involved in a stabbing of a man outside the Newburyport YWCA in 2005 has pleaded guilty and will serve his sentence concurrently with one he is already serving in a federal prison in Nevada.

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

It's been a soggy month, making summer feel like it really isn't here. But summer arrived this week in spite of all the rain, and a local teen band will greet the season in true summer style as it performs beachside at Salisbury Beach.

The panicked folly of Amesbury Mayor Thatcher Kezer in precipitately dissolving the town's health department has drawn Salisbury and Newburyport into a bureaucratic morass at a time when no municipality can afford to be in public health disarray.

Gov. Deval Patrick today signed a bill which officially designates at new sun screen at the Salisbury Beach State Reservation as the "Paul H. Sullivan Sun Shade Deck." The wooden structure, tucked nicely into the wavy dunes with a commanding view of the Atlantic Ocean and Salisbury Beach, opened last summer.

Light bulbs dangle from sockets fed by fraying wires. Water leaks from an uninsulated ceiling.

The following items were recorded in the log of the Amesbury police: Dana Abrahams, 20, 129 Water St., Newburyport, Damien T. Dobson, 18, 12 Old Point Road, Newbury, and Eric J. Nelson, 17, 141 Beach Road, Salisbury, were arrested Monday at 10:16 p.m. and each charged with unlawful possession of alcohol and possession of burglarious instruments.

Two local men face charges after a high-speed chase on Interstate 495 that ended around midnight Tuesday.

The owner of the Tupelo Music Hall hopes to continue to bring great music to the region and is ready to hit the beach.

With more than 70,000 passengers traveling across the I-95 John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge daily, replacing the historic structure is expected to present the largest, most complicated civil engineering challenge in the state since the commencement of Boston's Big Dig.

Artisans in the Open fills the backyard of a Newburyport home with its Summer Garden Fair this weekend.

Greater Newburyport's lawmakers joined with their colleagues yesterday in an effort to restore voter confidence in Beacon Hill.

Jun 19, 2009 at 12:00 AM Fri. June 19 Jake And The Jakes have a 7-song CD they're celebrating at Uncle Eddie's on Salisbury Beach Friday June 19.