Ipswich News

Want to run for mayor, city councilor or for a seat on the board of selectmen in your community? Spend five or 10 minutes with your city or town clerk, and you're likely to learn everything you need to know.

Careless disposal of a cigarette is the likely cause of a two-alarm fire at a Great Neck home more than two weeks ago, fire officials said.

The current "The Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel" exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum provides both a dramatic contrast to the outfits and fashion associated with the very early settlers of our fair region and a glimpse at where the early rebellion against its inherent plainness would eventually lead us.

The cause of a fire at a Pleasant Street home on Saturday is under investigation.

Todd Wilson of Ipswich, Massachusetts, plays with his daughter Nicole, 7, in a swimming pool as waves crash onto the shore in the background in Cancun, Mexico, yesterday.

The Boston-based Jubilee Trio has a vast repertoire of American art songs and African-American spirituals and gets its name from the Hebrew scriptures description of the year of Jubilee: a time when slaves were freed, debts were canceled, and wrongs were redressed.

EBSCO is bringing its EBSCOhost databases to users-even if users are on their smartphones.

Better late than never. The Essex Regional Retirement Board finally did the right thing by taxpayers this week, voting to transfer the remainder of its assets to the state Pension Reserves Investment Trust.

A five-year study of conservation efforts, released yesterday at a Statehouse forum, proved there are things homeowners, and cities and towns, can do to relieve the stress on the Ipswich River.

Aris Manoloules' brother and the man charged with killing him allegedly had lunch together on the day of his murder.

A woman and her dog are safe after a fire swept through their home on Great Neck last night and caused massive destruction.

A two-alarm fire demolished an Ipswich home early Thursday evening. FOX25 viewer Lorne Sullivan captured video the fire.

In the '60s and '70s it was almost impossible to travel any distance without spotting a bright orange roof and that Simple Simon weathervane.

Farrah and Michael Seidler of Yardley, along with big brother Benjamin, announce the birth of their son and brother, Daniel Ethan , on Jan.

About 20 gallons of oil contaminated a swampy area off Old Right Road when someone illegally dumped it there, along with assorted car parts.

Town officials were disappointed to learn this week that the repaving of South Main and Central streets won't be paid for with federal stimulus funds.

William Sargent, a science and nature author from Ipswich, will read from his children's book "Lily and Minot, The Story of a Princess Who Falls in Love With a Bull," which is set in Ipswich and dedicated to the town on its 375th birthday.

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.

In Taste Tests: This week the Serious Eats team tastes a slew of traditional New York cheesecakes and lets us know which cakes are really the big cheese.

Be the first to review! >> Good cider donuts close to Boston? Oh boy you must try the ones from Russell Orchards in Ipswich they are amazing.