Essex County News

Despite an appeal from State Sen. Sue Tucker, D-Andover, the Massachusetts Highway Department will not pay to replace new curbing on North Main Street near Elm Square.

A Topsfield man accused of striking his elderly mother when she refused to drive him to the pharmacy has been indicted on a charge of manslaughter.

On Aug. 4 of last year, prosecutors offered to recommend a sentence of six months in jail for James Flaherty and no jail time for his son Kevin Flaherty.

Scott W. Delp, a Peabody man with a lengthy criminal record who was arrested while toting a handgun as he fled through a North Street yard in September, pleaded guilty Thursday in Salem Superior Court to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, Essex County District Attorney spokesman Stephen O'Connell said.

SDLqI'm not the brightest bulb on the tree, but over a year ago, I knew the economy was going in the toilet.SDRq - Methuen City Councilor Philip Lahey Jr., questioning why School Superintendent Jeanne Whitten last year approved three-year contracts with big raises for her employees.

With summer here, Massachusetts health officials have begun urging residents to take steps to avoid mosquito bites and help prevent West Nile Virus and eastern equine encephalitis.

Imagine hiking through cool, dark forests, by babbling brooks, silvery streams, and along a mighty river.

Scriptwriters hate it when movie stars change their lines - here's a movie about changing lines.

"When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, that's amore!" The late Dean Martin is unavailable to croon for the reception band, but reputed Boston Mafia godfather Carmen "The Cheeseman" DiNunzio has been shot by Cupid's arrow and is engaged to be married, the Herald has learned.

For a dozen years, Timothy A. Bassett and Katherine O'Leary worked together on an Essex County pension board to approve retirement packages for hundreds of police officers, firefighters, and other municipal workers on the North Shore.

Kids have the opportunity to earn patches, badges or pins for successfully completing Junior Ranger activities.

Buying flood insurance now could save many area homeowners thousands of dollars over time, according to federal and local officials.

The following item was recorded in the Newburyport police log: Michael Weber, 48, 17 Walnut St., Newburyport, was arrested at 11:06 p.m. Thursday and charged with disorderly conduct and threatening to commit a crime.

They are known as commons, greens, training fields, or sometimes all of the above.

Momentum is slowly building toward Gloucester's entry into a proposed regional emergency dispatch center in Middleton.

That was the gist of the mood of more than 30 angry town officials from across Essex County who gathered in Ipswich Town Hall yesterday morning.

Town officials are reviewing proposed new federal maps that could drastically increase the number of coastal properties in flood zones across the region, forcing them to pay thousands in additional insurance costs and potentially forcing highly restrictive building regulations on the properties.

Police are asking the court to take over the case of who receives the $178,496 found in a shoe store safe dumped in a vacant lot on Cross Street last November.

Council on Aging members are gearing up for their annual field trip tomorrow with the Pine Grove School fifth-graders from John Collyer's class.

Although the Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds has seen an increase in the number of recordings that relate to the refinancing of mortgages, it is still nowhere near what it should be.