Wenham News

The Salvation Army Holiday Fund has raised almost $11,500 so far to help Essex County families during this holiday season.

Authorities are investigating whether a person fell through a hole in a frozen pond in Wenham.

A bill now under consideration on Beacon Hill could provide a revenue boom for the cities and towns participating in the Community Preservation Act.

The proposal drew no organized opposition, no controversy, and the special election to approve a Proposition 2 1/2 debt exclusion override drew very limited participation from voters in Wenham and Hamilton.

Police Chief Kenneth Walsh is one of four finalists for the chief's job in Cohasset.

Prosecutors this Monday handed over six computer discs containing potential evidence in the case against former Hamilton police Chief Water Cullen and three others for their roles in a wide-ranging scam of state medical training records.

Still looking for a gift for that avid reader on your list? Here are three more suggestions; all have Cape Ann ties.

For many in New England, it's tradition in early December to visit a farm or roadside stand and pick out a Christmas tree.

As many as 3,000 people visited Pioneer Village during the summer and fall, breathing life back into the city's replica 17th-century historic settlement that had been shuttered since 2003.

Local political and business leaders chatted it up at the 91st annual North Shore Chamber of Commerce dinner on Wednesday.

Launched more than 50 years ago and dominant in the Massachusetts economy from the 1970s into the 1990s, Digital Equipment Corp.

A Beverly native is leading an effort to help residents of Nicaragua recover from a devastating hurricane.

The regional school district's assistant superintendent and business manager, Paul Szymanski, is the lone finalist for the school business manager's job in Billerica.

It hardly felt like the winter holiday season yesterday as the sun shone brightly and temperatures hovered in the 50s, but holiday cheer abounded at the 62nd annual Beverly Holiday Parade.

It'll never last. That's what everybody said. Mel Cole and Betty Rohr were too young, they said, and only children at that, used to being the center of attention.

Hamilton Town Hall offices will be closed Thursday and Friday this week. In addition, some offices may be closed tomorrow.

"As a worker, April Stanton is right up there at the top," said her boss, John Tognazzi, operations manager for Hiltz Waste Removal Co.

Whirligigs and whimmydiddles sound like the sorts of toys Alice would have found underneath the caterpillar's mushroom or that Willy Wonka would have created if he'd been a toy maker.

One actor, Bobby Kerrigan of Wenham, has starred in so many roles that he stopped counting.

Despite the sputtering economy, seven area communities this fall are plunging ahead with campaigns to raise property taxes for multimillion-dollar school construction projects.