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Dreamtown Finder: Massachusetts town search calculator

A tool to help you find the ideal Massachusetts communities for your needs ...
Vintage Rockport

Granite Pier, Rockport, Mass., circa 1907

This is the first early-1900s postcard I’ve seen that refers to the Rockport Granite Company pier by the name Granite Pier ...
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Rockport Ramblings: My Place hosting Monday fireworks benefit

News and event listings around the town of Rockport ...
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For Motif No. 1 Day, A Gallery of Motif No. 1 Views

In recognition of Motif No. 1 Day tomorrow in Rockport, here is a gallery of views of our famous landmark.
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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 ...
North Shore Dish

Let Us Eat Cake

One of our readers wrote to us about Buttermilk Baking Company, saying we had to get ourselves to Newburyport to try their pastries (thanks, Laura!) ...
North Shore Dish

From Lunch to Brunch to Gourmet Dinners, We’ve Got Plenty of Ways to Celebrate Mom

Forgot Mother’s Day is this Sunday and scrambling to make plans? We’ve got a quick round-up of brunch ideas as well as some less traditional options ...
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Straitsmouth Point, Rockport, Mass., circa 1925

This postcard, with its beautiful view of Straitsmouth Island and lighthouse, is unique ...
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Student's classical composition premiered in Malden

, known locally for playing guitar and singing the blues, will have his first classical composition for piano performed in Malden on Sunday ...
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Finalists named in regional business plan competition

The Enterprise Center at Salem State University has announced the finalists in the 2013 North of Boston Business Plan Competition.
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Officers from Cape Ann answered the call in Watertown

During Friday's hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Watertown, members of the Cape Ann Regional Response Team, which includes officers from the Ipswich, Essex, Manchester, and Rockport police departments, answered a call for mutual aid from the State Police ...
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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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Vintage Rockport

For Earth Day: Toad Hall Bookstore, 1973

In honor of Earth Day today, we present this February 1973 photograph of Toad Hall Bookstore in Rockport, another photo from the series of Rockport photographs taken for the U ...
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Dock Square, Rockport, Mass., circa 1908

This postcard was postmarked in Rockport on July 31, 1909 ...
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Vintage Rockport

Inside Poole’s Rexall Drugstore, 1973

Can you identify the people in these photographs? They are from a series of Rockport photographs taken for the U ...
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