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The Mary Prentiss Inn

Last fall I began a new project, The Mary Prentiss Inn, located on Prentiss Street off of Harvard Square ...
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CBS and Boston Magazine Cover Our Darth Maul Lobster

Here Is a Lobster that Looks Like Darth Maul Because Monday ...
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Haverhill man ID'd as driver in Pond View death case

A Haverhill man has been identified as the driver who is under investigation in the death of a Salem man who was reportedly struck or run over by a car in the Pond View Village housing complex early Saturday morning ...
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Mother mourns Pond View victim as 'hard-working, caring'

The mother of the 29-year-old Salem man who was killed after reportedly being struck or run over by a car early Saturday morning in Gloucester's Pond View housing complex remembered him Sunday as being hard-working, fun-loving and caring, adding that
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Kirk eyes plan for fishing 'transition'

Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk's office has released a proposed "bridge plan" to have the federal government finance a transition for fishermen displaced by drastic reductions in landings for 2013 and reinvent the nation's oldest fishing port, long th
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Many households cutting cable, but not their favorite TV shows

Mounted to one side of their living room, the television set in the McElhennys' Gloucester home is essentially wallpaper, a memento of a prior era when consumers were tethered to their sets and the cable or satellite providers that dictated their entertainment choices.
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YMCA teens travel to New Orleans for fourth annual rebuilding NOLA service learning trip

For the fourth year in a row, teens from the YMCA of the North Shore traveled to the Gulf Coast to rebuild homes lost during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ...
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Newburyport to auction off 'ghost ship'

The city of Newburyport is auctioning off a 37-foot boat that has sat idle for months since the German man who owned it apparently drowned in the Merrimack River last year ...
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Biking opportunities outside of Boston

The regions north and west of Boston offer a rich array of options for mountain bikers of all abilities ...
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Obituary: Evelen M. Howe

HOWE, Evelyn M. 46, of Gloucester, and a former Norfolk resident died suddenly on May 5, 2013 the victim of an accidental drowning ...
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Man struck and killed by commuter train in Gloucester

A man was struck and killed by a commuter rail train in Gloucester today, an MBTA spokesman said ...
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Cape Ann's first off-leash dog park to open in Gloucester

Several years ago Gloucester residents Mary Lou Maraganis and Judi Masciarelli had the idea to create an open area for dogs to roam free ...
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Top 10 best locations to live in Mass.

If you were to move to any Massachusetts community, where should you go? We analyzed and ranked each towns crime rateincluding violent and property crime,the number of public transit options, the number of historical sites per resident, the percentage of acres that are open space, and the number of grocery stores ...
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Cheapest places to live in Massachusetts

Here's a slideshow of the 10 towns with the cheapest home values in Massachusetts ...
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Top 10 Most Fun Places to Live in Massachusetts

How fun is your town? We ranked the top 10 most fun communities in Massachusetts by analyzing the number of restaurants, theaters, and museums, using Tripadvisor and other online sources, per population data provided by the US Census ...
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Top 10 towns with best schools in Massachusetts

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Top 10 hipster places in Massachusetts

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