Ipswich News

As a kid growing up in Amesbury, Jeffrey Donovan didn't make it to too many Sox games.

A family of six and their dogs escaped injury shortly after midnight yesterday when a fire caused extensive damage to their home.

Selectmen in Salisbury are joining those in Rowley, Hamilton, Ipswich and Manchester in asking the Essex Regional Retirement Board to transfer their pension funds to the state retirement system.

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.

We would like to thank all who helped out and turned out for the first annual "Ride to Remember." With more than 125 bikers on hand to ride throughout the North Shore, the run was a great success.

The Trustees of Reservations will open the trails at Appleton Farms once again for the seventh edition of the Ipswich Rotary's 5K and Family Fun Day.

On Friday, May 15, the Doyon School in Ipswich held a tree dedication ceremony in honor of our first principal, William E. Waitt, Doyon's principal from 1965 to 1987.

A series of accidents involving elderly drivers, tragically culminating in the death of a 4-year-old girl in Stoughton over the weekend, has prompted several North Shore legislators to throw their support behind a bill that would require mandatory testing at 85.

Get out of the investment business. That's the advice town officials across the North Shore are giving the Essex Regional Retirement Board.

The only time telephone poles make the news is when a car leaves the road and crashes into one.

Think inside the box Interior designer and color expert Susan Sargent, who has a home on Beacon Hill and a paint, textile, and ceramics business in southern Vermont, put together a "spice" palette for the home pictured at right.

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.

The area we know so well as Cape Ann was once inhabited by a people we now refer to as the Agawam.

Ipswich is preparing for one of its most festive celebrations ever - the town's 375th birthday! This summer, Ipswich will be alive with activity and fun, from festivals to concerts to an elegant jazz ball.

The Essex Regional Retirement Board posted a 33 percent loss last year, the worst of the 107 retirement systems in Massachusetts.

Who needs a backyard pool? These homes offer beach access. The home at 26 Hollis Road in Lynn was custom-built in 1946 and has a small, private beach in the back yard.

Take a day trip, or make it a weekend. There's adventure to be had, and you don't have to go far to find it.

A 3-year-old boy is being rushed to a Boston hospital this afternoon after he fell out of a second-story window in Ipswich and landed on a driveway, suffering head injuries, police said.

A lot of 8-year-old boys might think about new bikes or video games when they look forward to birthday presents.

Aileen Ang testified today in a Boston courtroom that she drove the man who goes by the name of Clark Rockefeller and his kidnapped daughter from Boston to New York City last July.