Wenham News

As a gallon of milk approaches $4 and gasoline exceeds that price, another sign of the tighter times is the increased demand at North Shore food pantries.

A powerful thunderstorm rolled through the North Shore and caused heavy damage to some communities as large branches, and even some whole trees, gave way to strong winds.

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.

Amid concern from parents, the School Committee has delayed approving a plan to add a dozen early-release days to the school calendar next year to provide more time for teacher training.

A mother and her three children escaped a two-alarm fire at 10 Harry Homans Drive on Thursday night.

Julie Coulton joins Mullen's MediaHub. BOSTON Mullen said it has hired Julie Coulton as svp, director of digital media, a new position at the Wenham, Mass.-based IPG agency's MediaHub unit.

By SANDRA E. CONSTANTINE sconstantine@repub.com SOUTH HADLEY - The trial date for former Department of Public Works Superintendent Gregory Kereakoglow on sexual assault charges that had been set to start ...

Just as fall prevention has moved to the top of the agenda at many public health organizations, Gordon College in Wenham has expanded its Center for Balance, Mobility and Wellness.

A two-alarm fire caused an estimated $100,000 worth of damage to a house on Radcliff Road on Saturday.

Pat Oliver, a member of Northeast Bonsai Society, leaned over a tiny privet hedge set on a workbench in the backyard of her Hamilton home and delicately pruned the plant with small cutting shears.

The schools' plan to send students home early 18 days next year is unusual but not unprecedented on the North Shore.

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.

Voters will go to the polls at Town Hall on Sturbridge Road today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. to decide on three contests and a nonbinding referendum question asking whether they support continuing a study on ...

Yesterday's recount of the Hamilton election results switched the voting totals, but not enough to make a difference.

The selectmen's vote this week to enter into a long-term lease with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for an abandoned rail bed through town drew an outburst of applause from some, and silence from ...

The biggest question facing the city today is whether voters will pass a $2.5 million Proposition 2 1 / 2 override.

Property taxes in Beverly are lower than in many nearby towns, but still rank in the top 25 percent in the state, according to figures from the state Department of Revenue.

There may come a day when people old enough to remember the Dewey Decimal System will use the town's former library as a gathering place, a center where they can play cards, gossip or share a cup of coffee.

I guess the proposal for a new tax on Massachusetts colleges with big endowments is, as they say at the Statehouse, a "nonstarter" - for the moment.

Traffic on Route 128 was mired yesterday behind two motor-vehicle crashes, including a rollover crash that hurled a Peabody man out of his car.