Applications for the two-year term are due June 5th SALEM – Mayor Dominick Pangallo today announced that residents of Salem can now apply to be Salem’s next Poet Laureate. This initiative, a collaboration with the Salem Public Library, helps promote and celebrate the diverse community of the spoken word art…

MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA — Superintendent Pam Beaudoin and Director of Curriculum and Instructional Technology Heather Leonard are pleased to announce that Manchester Essex Regional School District (MERSD) has received a grant from the One8 Foundation. $34,900 will be awarded to MERSD over…

SALEM – The City of Salem High School Building Committee invites members of the public to join one of two upcoming informational webinars about the Salem High School Building Project.  These sessions are designed to provide the community with an…

GLOUCESTER — Interim Police Chief Michael Williams reports that the Gloucester Police Department is investigating a stolen motor vehicle. On Friday, April 10, at about 2:18 a.m., a resident walked into the Gloucester Police Station to report that his 2022…

LAWRENCE – Today in Essex County Superior Court in Lawrence, John Carey, 66, of Braintree was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of Claire Gravel on June 29, 1986, the Office of…

Major exhibition then moves onto The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC Mark Rothko, Untitled (wharf, Gloucester, Massachusetts), 1934. Watercolor and gouache on construction paper. Collection of Christopher Rothko, 1076.25-27. © 2025 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights…

Essex School Building Committee Community Meeting A community meeting about the Essex Elementary School Building Project will be hosted on April 16. MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA — Superintendent Pam Beaudoin invites community members to attend an upcoming community meeting on the Essex Elementary…