Topsfield News

Mike Annese has been named market center director of KW Commercial, a division of Keller Williams Realty, Beverly.

The economy stinks. Health costs keep soaring. The trees are now bare. But, still, we give thanks.

The Cape Ann Symphony kicks off the holiday season with "Holiday Sparklers," the orchestra's annual winter pops concert, on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Fuller Auditorium, off Blackburn Circle, Route 128, Gloucester.

BioSystem Development LLC., a Madison manufacturer and supplier of analysis products for the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries, said it has completed an investment round that raised more than $1.4 million.

The Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary will conduct a two-hour, naturalist-guided Big Woods Hike on Sunday, leaving every 15 minutes between noon and 1:30 p.m. to visit marshes, ponds and an old-growth forest.

A football signed by Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker and a one-hour massage are among the raffle prizes up for grabs at a fundraiser this Friday to benefit the Salem Alliance of Food Pantries.

Kim Folan of Ipswich, a full-time real estate broker/agent for almost a decade, has joined J. Barrett and Co.

The Beverly Mothers Club will hold its second annual school information fair on Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. at the Beverly Golf & Tennis Club, 134 McKay St.

Neiland Douglas was recently recognized by the board of directors of the Turtle Woods elderly housing facility for his efforts on behalf of low- and moderate-income seniors.

First Lt. John "Jack" David Lawson's brothers and sister remember the day his body was returned home in 1970.

School officials have sent out notices to all parents notifying them of the district's response to the H1N1 virus.

There are preachers who teach and teachers who preach. Teachers whose lives are prisms refracting the spectrum of their knowledge, experience and standards as beams illuminating paths for others.

Frank Cutietta has been selected as a new artist member of the Marblehead Arts Association in the photography category.

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.

Paul DiMarino was in a car accident on June 1, 2009. He is doing well and continues to make great strides in the recovery process.

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.

After 18 months, seven design patents, five prototypes and responses from 5,800 gardeners to an online questionnaire, Topsfield resident, businessman and inventor Jim Ugone has come up with a better watering can.

If you want a theme for this fall's Special Town Meeting, you'd do worse than the first line of the song that was said to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's favorite.

Police received a report at 10 p.m. of an unwanted guest at an apartment building at 30 School St.