Topsfield News

Six months after state Senator Frederick E. Berry announced plans to retire after this term, a wide-open race for the veteran Peabody Democrat's Second Essex seat is kicking into gear.

In a major step toward eventually finding a permanent replacement for its popular superintendent, the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee voted last week to hire Anthony Bent to fill an interim position pending the results of a formal superintendent search process.

When Barry Eager looks across the Berlin Town Common, he thinks it hasn't really changed much in the past 100 years and there is much the same from 150 years ago, but as the town celebrates its 200th anniversary the changes are significant.

The following is an excerpt from theA Danvers Police A log: Tuesday, April 8 Alexander Buzzi, 19, of 6 Madison Ave., was arrested at 7:03 p.m. on charges of domestic assault and battery and liquor possession.

The Patton family estate in Hamilton is being offered to the town by Joanne Holbrook Patton, daughter-in-law of the famous general.