Wenham News

Your grandfather, or maybe you, might relish telling stories about World War II, but what if those tales could really spring to life? They will at the Wenham Museum's fifth annual World War II Living History Day on Saturday.

"I plan to hit the ground running," Jennifer Turner told the School Committee last week.

Connie Durgin, left, and Sandra Friedrich of Wenham, Mass. participate in an unemployed prayer support group meeting in Beverly, Mass.

Her fellow job seekers offer knowing groans as Diane Castro recalls the day she was laid off: The fear of being summoned to the front office.

Local ambulance service providers are locked in a bidding war, and taxpayers are the winners.

Police arrested a 20-year-old Hamilton man yesterday following a search of the woods around a Gussett Road home, where a break-in was reported.

Geneva Beaudry, a Wenham resident, has put together a fund-raiser slated for Wednesday at Essex Seafood from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. to benefit the Boston Breast Cancer 3-Day Series, where thousands of men and women will walk 60 miles over three days to raise money for the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund and Susan G. Komen for the ...

We have been residents of Wenham since 1985. We live at 79 Main St., next to Canaan Farm and directly across from the Wenham Country Club golf course.

Money is tight, city and town budgets are stretched, and public employee unions, with a few exceptions, have not been inclined to give back benefits previously won at the bargaining table.

For sale: Two fully equipped, well-maintained, slightly used ambulances. The town service, mothballed since last fall, appeared to receive the coup de grace last night, as the selectmen are poised to sign a contract with Lyons Ambulance to take over medical transports for at least the next three years, and possibly five.

There are perhaps no more evocative symbols of small-town New England than the spindly white spires capping some of the oldest churches in America - which makes the steeple of the First Church in Wenham so jarring to the thousands of motorists passing it each day on Route 1A.

The former chief executive of Raytheon has donated his archives to Gordon College and has established a $100,000 scholarship at the school on Boston's North Shore.

It costs a lot to run a good school system, especially if you're not getting as much state aid as other communities.

Stream flow in the Ipswich River has been falling since Saturday, triggering mandatory watering bans yesterday in Hamilton, Wenham and Topsfield.

Superintendent Carol Jacobs is negotiating with a finalist to be middle/high school assistant principal.

The temptation to blame others for problems of your own making is almost irresistible.

Emergency responders from four communities put out fires, rescued victims and dealt with a few surprises yesterday during a simulated plane crash at Beverly Airport.

The following students from North Shore towns were named to the honor roll for the second trimester of 2008-2009 at Shore Country Day School: HONORS Grade six: Aisling Batchelder and Duncan Lechner of Manchester; Christopher Brady, Matt Sheridan and Ali Sledge of Marblehead; Samantha Brainard of Wenham; James Burr, Carter Daume, Lizzie Flynn, Lily ...

The Essex Regional Retirement Board posted a 33 percent loss last year, the worst of the 107 retirement systems in Massachusetts.

Valedictorian Kristen Brao struggled to write a valedictory address for the Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School graduation ceremony.