Topsfield News Archives

Boston has the Emerald Necklace, a string of linked parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted that provide green oases in what is often a concrete and asphalt urban desert.

Paul DiMarino was in a car accident on June 1, 2009. He is doing well and continues to make great strides in the recovery process.

What began as a string of illuminated jack o'lanterns lining Maple Street 25 years ago has evolved into a weekend long festival enjoyed by generations of Middleton families.

When five Masconomet Middle School students allegedly sexually harassed a female classmate late last month, they each earned a 10-day suspension.

After 18 months, seven design patents, five prototypes and responses from 5,800 gardeners to an online questionnaire, Topsfield resident, businessman and inventor Jim Ugone has come up with a better watering can.

If you want a theme for this fall's Special Town Meeting, you'd do worse than the first line of the song that was said to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's favorite.

Police received a report at 10 p.m. of an unwanted guest at an apartment building at 30 School St.

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Air bags and seat belts helped three drivers involved in a head-on crash on Route 1 yesterday escape serious injuries, police said.

Hamilton's Krista McLellan was crowned Mrs. Essex County 2010 yesterday at the Topsfield Fair, emerging victorious from a diverse field of 13 women from across the North Shore.

A Melrose man on a cocaine binge crashed into a house, then led police on a high-speed chase through Danvers and Topsfield, stopping only after he blew out a tire, a prosecutor said yesterday.

Two brown-eyed, happy children left the fairgrounds last weekend with crowns on their heads and trophies in their arms.

On a breezy, blue-sky Saturday morning in late September, the reigning Mrs. Essex County appeared at the Colby Farm stand on Scotland Road wearing her tiara and sash.

May's Town Meeting voters didn't know they were getting a glamor girl when they approved taking $50,000 from the surplus account to buy a used Reading Fire Department ladder truck.

Masconomet Regional School suspended five eighth-grade boys on Friday after they allegedly sexually harassed a female classmate repeatedly.

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A Gloucester truck driver died yesterday morning after being stricken while driving up a steep hill on Route 1 south between Ipswich Road and Howlett Street in Topsfield, police said.

While some people and businesses are trying to catch up with the "green" trend, the Topsfield Fair has been going green all along.

Alfalfa Farm's landmark grain silos along Interstate 95 at the Topsfield-Danvers town line.