Joseph “Skeeter” Maurice Brideau (75), died peacefully at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House on June 22, 2025, surrounded by family. Born in Fitchburg, MA, he was the son of Estelle (Bergeron) Brideau ...

Five years ago, with a raging pandemic shutting down the world, pizza was still on people’s minds. And in the the tight-knit community of Manchester, Bravo by the Sea was already leagues ahead. The ...

Was born in Beverly Hospital to Howard W. and Janet (Bullock) Towle. He was the eldest of their three sons, raised in Manchester-by-the-Sea. Dick was active in the community as a call firefighter and ...

In his first three months on the job back in 2013, Manchester Town Administrator Greg Federspiel was met with a pile of decidedly “local” issues. A grant application for sea wall repairs at Singing ...

Four months after completing a successful $18 million before its 150 th anniversary, the Cape Ann Museum announced a new donation that will fund its first named staff position as an institution. The ...

To the Editor, The Friends of Memorial Park Improvement Project, Inc. (FOMPIP) formed as a non-profit organization in 2018 with the goal of improving the Annie Gosbee Field (baseball) and building the ...

The Manchester Fireman’s Relief Association held its annual memorial service and meeting at 9 a.m. Sunday, June 8, at the Firefighters’ Memorial Lot on Rosedale Avenue, across from Crowell Chapel.

Fish City Studios is launching its second annual MARITIME exhibition, a bold, immersive celebration of Gloucester’s coastal identity through the lens of outsider and experimental art. The exhibit, ...

Jack Schylling grew up in Manchester and lives in Essex. His eyes light up as he recounts a day back in 1974, when he was working a desk job at Harvard College and noticed a small flying object ...

Dr. Philip George Levendusky passed away peacefully on April 17, 2025, after a courageous battle with Frontotemporal Dementia & Alzheimer’s Disease. Philip was born on October 21, 1946, in Lowell, MA ...

While the end result was essentially the same, both Manchester Essex lacrosse teams found different ways to earn decisive wins in the first round of the MIAA Div. 4 Tournament this past Saturday. The ...

An Essex resident since 1997, I live on Pickering Street with my husband Gordon Martin, where we’ve raised four kids. I’m a Senior Product Manager in the school and library market at EBSCO, where I’ve ...