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Having a cookout for Memorial Day Weekend? Check out this list of starters and sides available from Carry Out Cafe. Call 978.499.2240 to order by Wednesday, May 20. Pick up Friday and Saturday. Chili  or Haddock Chowder  Combo Sweet & Baby Red Potato Salad Chef Bobby’s Sicilian Potato Salad  All American BLT Shell Pasta Salad Off…

Port Signworks is considered essential and is still operating offering professional COVID-19 signage to businesses and anyone in need of directional or informational signage. Signage is available whether it’s alerting customers that you’re open for take-out, encouraging proper hand-washing techniques, or reminding customers to keep practicing social distancing. See samples here and here.

Seaglass Restaurant and Capri Seaside Italian Grille, sister restaurants under the Atlantic Hospitality Group family of businesses in Salisbury, Massachusetts, are offering a selection of fresh seafood, fish, burgers, and Italian favorites at reduced prices from each restaurant prepared from scratch daily by their Seaglass culinary team. Guests can order for curbside pickup by calling…

This spring, Greenbelt is offering a series of kid-friendly events at the beautiful Cox Reservation in Essex that give families a chance to get outside, connect with nature and enjoy some fresh air together!  Learn about owls and encounter them up close at “Eyes on Owls” on Thursday, March 19th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm…

The Whittier Home announces that due to concerns for the health of attendees, and in light of the recent coronavirus reports, the 10th Annual “Celebrating Whittier” fundraiser that was to be held on Sunday, March 22nd, 2:00 p.m., at the Friends Meetinghouse in Amesbury, MA will be postponed until later in the spring when it…

Newburyport is the final resting place of one of our nation’s forgotten founding fathers. George Whitefield was the English evangelist who galvanized the eighteenth-century religious revival known as “The Great Awakening.” His revolutionary message that all people are equal in the eyes of their heavenly ruler spurred the colonists to rebel against their earthly king,…

Newburyport’s Own Essex Street Inn & Suites Recognized as ‘Historic, Boutique, and One of a Kind’ Newburyport, MA: Newburyport’s own historic boutique hotel, the Essex Street Inn & Suites, is now a part of the Ascend Hotel Collection by Choice Hotels. The Ascend Collection is an elite group of properties known for being “historic, boutique and…

The Whittier Home will host the 10th Annual “Celebrating Whittier” fundraiser to be held on March 22nd, 2:00 p.m., at the Friends Meetinghouse in Amesbury, MA.  The program for the event will be a presentation by Ron and Donna Lasko entitled “HATS OFF TO WOMEN!”.  This program will commemorate the 100th anniversary of American women…

The Cat in the Cradle Coffeehouse welcomes the Julie Dougherty Band on Saturday, February 22. Julie is a legend in the area coffeehouse scene, having performed her original songs at just about every folk venue in the Boston/ North Shore area. This Saturday she brings her full band to the stage and her pure folk…

Artists – painters, sculptors, potters, photographers, jewelry makers and more – are invited to submit their work to be considered for Greenbelt’s 31st annual “Art in the Barn” exhibition and sale.  “Art in the Barn” is a juried show. To be considered, artists must submit five digital images and their jury form by April 5,…