Middleton News

After talking it over with family and friends, Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett has decided against running for attorney general if, as now seems likely, incumbent Martha Coakley is elected to the U.S. Senate in January.

Gloucester may have to decide whether to join a new regional vocational high school sooner than expected.

Town officials want to head off the possibility that dozens of homeless families living in motels could spend Thanksgiving without turkey and all the fixings.

In the first week of December, the town will begin using a new chemical to disinfect water in the pipes in both Danvers and Middleton, Department of Public Works Director David Lane said.

When a mother found out her kid was one of a few dozen underage teens partying at a Middleton house Tuesday night, she became irate - at the police officers breaking up the house party.

Roger R. Savoie, 62, died in Florida on October 13, 2009, after a brief illness.

My Uncle Don, Donald Arthur Champoux, was another silent member of "The Greatest Generation." While serving in World War II in the Army Air Force, he contracted tuberculosis.

A domestic dispute between a husband and wife took a potentially deadly turn yesterday, when, according to police, 38-year-old Manuel Grieco attacked and beat his spouse, 40-year old Dawn Tanski.

CASINO NIGHT. Hosted by North Shore Arc to benefit people living with developmental disabilities, at Angelica's, Route 114 in Middleton, Friday, Nov.

A Rockport man was arrested in the IGA market parking lot early Sunday after he reportedly got into a verbal argument with two women and struck one of them.

Saturday, November 14, at 7:00 p.m. Wordplay, a monthly reading series co-sponsored by Inkberry and Papyri Books , 45 Eagle Street, will present poets Janet MacFadyen, Susan Middleton, Susie Patlove, and Paula Sayword, who will read from their work.

" We don't just scare them. We want to mess them up for life. " Holly Travis, a professional actor who has a seasonal gig at Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery in Salem " Topsfield has the strawberry festival and Boxford has the apple festival.

A federal-state-local crackdown on drug trafficking continued yesterday morning with the arrest of two people on cocaine charges.

After being on the run for a week, a man described by police as a large-scale cocaine dealer has been captured by police.

The staff at Salon Bogart in Manchester is hosting "Hot to Trot," a dance benefit for Wind-rush Farm in Boxford, which offers therapeutic equitation for the disabled.

Masconomet senior Michael Doherty Jr. and his friend Evan Wiendczak were speeding along a narrow street Sunday when their car veered out of control, hit three trees and threw Doherty from the passenger seat into the road, police said.

What began as a string of illuminated jack o'lanterns lining Maple Street 25 years ago has evolved into a weekend long festival enjoyed by generations of Middleton families.

When five Masconomet Middle School students allegedly sexually harassed a female classmate late last month, they each earned a 10-day suspension.

The principal job of the Army is to protect the United States from foreign and domestic enemies, but a local soldier added catching a suspected bank robber to his mission this week.

The Middleton Pumpkin Festival celebrates its 25th birthday this weekend. Here's the lineup: Friday, Oct.