Essex News

Many high-end chefs are into farm-fresh foods these days but for Frank McClelland, award winning chef-owner of two top Boston restaurants, L'Espalier and Sel de la Terre , the farm is his own Apple Street Farm in Essex, MA.

Voters at last week's Essex town election confirmed some of the choices made at annual Town Meeting the week before.

A Beverly woman was sentenced to six months in jail and six months of house arrest after being found guilty of allowing her daughter host a house party where alcohol was served in 2010, the Essex district attorney's office said.

The following activity for theA Hamilton Police A andA Fire Department A comes from the Hamilton-Wenham Emergency Center log for Sunday, May 6 through Tuesday, May 8. Sunday, May 6 11:18 a.m. A 911 hang-up call or wrong dial came from a Porter Lane address.

After a year hiatus, the Hamilton-Wenham Free Press returned to mailboxes in the two towns last week.