Topsfield News

If the riders are the stars at Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation, and the horses are the supporting characters, the volunteers are the behind-the-scenes crew.

Topsfield has issued a mandatory outdoor watering ban because of dropping water levels in the Ipswich River.

While police officers were trying to round up some 50 youths at a party Saturday, someone snuck into a police cruiser and stole its laptop computer, police Chief Evan Haglund said yesterday.

After losing a bid to have a vehicular homicide charge thrown out because police never gave him a ticket, a Danvers man is considering whether to try to strike a plea bargain in the case.

No beer. No wine. No liquor. And no apologies. When the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition arrives Thursday, this Hampshire County hamlet will not be celebrating.

There's an odd extension on the front porch of Al and Marie Masse's summer cottage on Baker's Island, a play area just big enough for a child to pedal a toy tractor around in circles.

The Rockland Courier Gazette identifies the victim as 73 year old Janet Strong of Topsfield, Massachusetts.

A pilot killed when a light plane crashed in shallow waters about 300 yards off the Maine coast has been identified as a 73-year-old woman from Massachusetts.

Not many communities have barns in their downtown, and Topsfield - one of the few towns to boast such a landmark - is likely to lose that particular rustic link to the past.

For as long as his friends can remember, Martin Johnson loved bikes. Early yesterday morning, Johnson, 22, apparently lost control of his motorcycle on Washington Street in Topsfield.

There was a time when Essex County was defined by dairy farms. Horses may outnumber them now, but cows were once the heart and soul of many large estates, and one of the oldest farms remaining is making sure ...

The man leading efforts to build a rail trail says the backyards of several of the project's most vocal opponents are encroaching on the public land the path will traverse.

On more than 300 rolling acres on a former country estate, clever clusters of cottages and townhomes have been architected to provide discerning buyers top-shelf amenities and the best of golf course living.

Board of Health Chairman Bill Hunt figures it's unlikely that a plane will fall out of the sky and flatten Town Hall, but it wouldn't hurt to be prepared.

Selectmen have renamed a girls softball field at Great Oak School in memory of Charles C. "Tiggie" Tordiglione, who had been the town's longest-serving employee.

Speakers at Essex Agricultural and Technical High School's 95th commencement last night spoke to a boisterous group of graduates about how a school specializing in plant, animal and environmental science has ...

Proposals for two high-end 55-and-over residential developments cleared major hurdles when Town Meeting voters in Topsfield approved necessary zoning changes.

Spice racks and candle holders are not on the syllabus for Ralph Arabian's Wood Tech II classes at Masconomet Regional High School.

Picture a time when cigarettes are the last thing kids would spend their money on.

Hard to believe it is almost June and summer has almost arrived. A year has passed, filled with days some of us wondered if we would ever get through.