West Newbury News

In an effort to quell "much incorrect and inaccurate information and gossip," Laura Dillingham-Mailman, director of the Merrimac Council on Aging, presented West Newbury selectmen with charted response to concerns raised over a possible merger of senior services between the two towns.

The planned merger between the Merrimac and West Newbury Councils on Aging is moving forward, Council on Aging Executive Director Laura Dillingham-Mailman told selectmen last week.

If you like lettuce, this is the summer you've dreamed of. But if tomatoes and corn are more to your liking, all the rain and cold weather we've experienced means it's going to be a longer wait.

Summer is made for relaxing. And what could be easier than a concert performed in the fresh air.

Police are asking the public's help in finding new details on a motorcycle accident last week that claimed the lives of two people.

Two men are accused of sending sexually explicit photos and texts to a West Newbury girl.

The town will try some experimental changes over the next couple of months to improve traffic flow and safety in Byfield Village.

A Haverhill man is dead and a woman is in serious condition after a motorcycle accident in West Newbury last evening.

Congressman John Tierney invites small businesses, nonprofit agencies and municipalities to a free seminar on special funding opportunities available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

"My crop is better than last year," Glenn Cook, co-owner of Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, said yesterday.

Results of an exam designed to assess readiness for Algebra II given to all ninth-graders this spring were dramatic enough to prompt a change in the math curriculum for next year, Assistant Superintendent Bill Hart told the Pentucket Regional School Committee on Tuesday.

Shari Wilkinson, who spearheaded the market, said its success exceeded her greatest expectations.

The 2009 West Newbury Summer Community Bandstand Series kicks off this week with a performance by the 35-member Merrimack Valley Concert Band.

The ringing of the bell at the historic Old South Church at 10 a.m. Sunday will launch the inaugural Newburyport Farmers Market.

Selectmen think regionalizing services for the town's senior citizens could be a financial and cultural plus, but some of West Newbury's older residents are not yet convinced it is the right step to take.

"The act of saying 'I don't know what I want to be when I grow up' is awesome... brave, honest, inspiring," commencement speaker Steve Kidd told members of Pentucket Regional High School's graduating class yesterday.

Town officials think they're getting gypped $161,000 by the state for prime beachfront land, and they're not planning to take the insult without a fight.

In a week that brought ethics scandals and heaps of criticism on the Legislature, Greater Newburyport's two House members are speaking out on ethics reforms and growing public scrutiny.

Now that Salvatore DiMasi has been indicted on federal charges, local lawmakers who voted to re-elect him speaker of the Massachusetts House in January say hindsight is 20/20. "There was absolutely no substantiation of anything , and so I have to act with the facts that are presented before me," said State Rep.

Going into executive session with union representative Jim Peters and union stewards Lee Delp, Butch Hills and Michael Dwyer, Finance Director Tracy Blais and DPW Superintendent Gary Bill.