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Largest Literary Festival Yet

By Stewart Lytle, Reporter –––––––––––––––––

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April 27 - May 3, 2016 Vol. 12, No. 26

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NEWBURYPORT – The 11th annual Newburyport Literary Festival, which opens Friday night and continues all day Saturday, “promises to have something for every reader.”

With its highest number of authors – 79 – attending, founder Vicki Hendrickson predicted last week that the festival will not only be the largest, but “will be fabulous.”

Highlights include a discussion with former Maine Senator George Mitchell, who will talk about his career as outlined in his book, The Negotiator, with local journalist Dyke Hendrickson.

Vicki Hendrickson, who heads the festival with Jennifer Entwistle, said she was thrilled that Mitchell could squeeze in an appearance Continued on page 3

Fiddler on the Roof in Ipswich For the first time in many years, Ipswich Middle and High School have gathered all their theatrical talent in one very big show -- Fiddler on the Roof, playing May 6-8 at the Dolan Performing Arts Center.

While the community looks forward to another high quality performance of a favorite musical, theatre in the school is also an educational experience. Combining the two schools allows for the younger students to learn and be mentored by the more experienced high schoolers.

Actors in a wider range of ages also adds depth and realism to the casting, with younger students playing the roles of The Town Common Courtesy Photo Tzeitel & Motel: Tevye’s oldest daughter Tzeitel Tevye’s children and the older (Joy Bergner) and her betrothed, the tailor Motel (Jonah Fouser) students playing the adults.

Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor dairyman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich in historical and ethnic detail, Fiddler On The Roof ’s universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy and sadness.

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RVA Launches College Scholarship Program

Upcoming COA Trips Page 6 Bugg LaRouchelle with his friend Charlie Hardy

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By Stewart Lytle, Reporter ––––––––––––––––– ROWLEY – It was always Charlie support our veterans and the Hardy’s dream to raise money to community,” the announcement of fund a scholarship for a graduating the scholarship states. “It was one Triton Regional High School of his goals and desires to initiate senior. a scholarship fund for a graduating Hardy, who served in the Army’s student at Triton Regional High 82nd Airborne Division, was the School.” manager of the Rowley Veterans Now, RVA members are fulfilling Association (RVA) for five years, Hardy’s dream and taking it a few “where he worked diligently to steps further.

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Fiddler on the Roof in Ipswich

The Company at Ipswich Middle and High School presents Fiddler on the Roof, Book by Joseph Stein, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, Based on Sholem Aleichem’s stories by special permission of Arnold Perl. Friday May 6 and Saturday May 7 at 8pm and Sunday May 8 at 2:30pm. At the Dolan Performing Art Center, 134 High Street, Ipswich.

Tickets: $10 adult, $8 Student/Senior. Available at TicketStage.com and at the door

Letters To The Editor Marc Maravalli, B.S., R.Ph. Publisher/Editor, The Town Common

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The Town Common encourages all citizens to submit letters concerning issues of interest and concern to the local community.

Letters selected for publication may be edited for length and clarity.

Some letters may serve as a catalyst for other articles or coverage, and community leaders and agencies will be offered an opportunity to respond to letters concerning their areas of responsibility.

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Community Announcements Ipswich’s Upcoming Electronic Voting Decision

Community Connections Privacy, Accuracy and Speed in Voting in your town meeting Wayland adopted electronic, wireless, keypad voting for their open town meeting in the spring of 2010. After a free trial, Wayland has Business Spotlight used electronic keypad voting for every town meeting and every vote of town meeting to present day. For detailed information on this go to www.electronicvoting.info • For I was the initial starter of thisEstate effort in my town but others caught Real Sale the wave quickly and a number of people, including our moderator, worked together to implement the most important improvement to New England town meeting in 400 •years.

Sports Sports • Sports With electronic voting you get a level of accuracy, which is not possible by any other means. We all believe that every vote should count and that one vote can change the outcome. When then vote Pets, Animals, is close, showing hands or counting standing peoplePlus is human error prone. Think about the methods that your town meeting uses to count votes and then compare those methods to electronic machines doing Health the work – just like they do in most & otherFitness banking and financial areas of your life. Zoning and borrowing articles require a 2/3rd’ margins

The Editor by statute. These non-50% margins make it all the more difficult for

c/o The Town Common a human to gauge the results. If you want to know that your vote was

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Rowley, MA 01969 or preferably via e-mail to: the outcome, then electronic voting is the only way to go. editor@thetowncommon.com.

Over the past 6 years of using electronic voting, Wayland has had

many votes which were within +/-10% or 5% or even right on the The Town Common deadline is knife edge. When the electronic machines told the moderator what the 5pm Wednesday (except when a counts were and when the moderator announced those counts – the federal holiday necessitates an people just accepted it and were confident that the vote was accurate earlier deadline). and that their vote counted. Just this last town meeting in April 2016 we had votes, which were within a margin of 1. Just imagine the The Town Common amount of time we saved not having to count those votes by standing serves the communities of the Upper North Shore of Mass. & and sitting and have roaming tellers.

Coastal New Hampshire and A couple of years back, the town of Acton held a secret vote by paper welcomes your participation. ballot. The process was painful and lasted for one hour. They even said Send your Organization or Group that if the numbers exceed the number who checked in, they would Notices, Birth or Engagement Announcements, Photos, Articles and have to recount. Luckily for Acton – they only had to go through Letters to the Editor, by mail, phone, one secret, one-hour ballot. Since Wayland has started using electronic fax, or e-mail to: 77 Wethersfield St., voting, every vote has been a secret ballot.

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They are raising $500 this spring for the club’s first scholarship for a Triton senior.

But that is only the beginning, said Bugg LaRouchelle, who is spearheading the fundraising along with Jimmy Edwards, the RVA club manager, Dave Leavitt, the club president, and Bill Gaynor, the club secretary.

Next year, the association plans to raise $2,000 through raffles and other fundraising events to fund four $500 scholarships, awarded to a Triton senior and seniors from Georgetown, Ipswich and Newburyport high schools.

The purpose of the scholarships, LaRouchelle said, is “to honor Charlie and do good for our communities.”

At 19 Bradford Street, just behind the Bradford Tavern on Haverhill Street, the RVA is a non-profit social club that is open to the public.

The scholarship committee said it is looking for a good student, who helps the community and “really needs the money” to attend North Shore Community College or Salem State University.

“We are not looking for the

straight A student who is going to Harvard and has a bunch of scholarships,” LaRouchelle said.

“We want to help a kid who is going to be good for his community.”

Being a veterans organization, the committee would also like for the scholarship recipient to have some ties to the military with either family members being in the military or planning himself or herself to enter the military. “But that is not a requirement,” he said.

The veterans association wants the scholarship recipient to stay in touch through Facebook or in person, telling those who funded the scholarship how he or she is doing in school.

“We are not going to give them the $500 and just say ‘see you later,’” LaRouchelle said. “We want them to be part of our extended family.”

And if they need emergency funds during the year, the student can apply to the club for help, he said.

The new scholarship is being announced at Triton High School.

To apply, a student needs only to ask the guidance office for the application, fill it out and submit it to the office.

“We hope we have hundreds of students who apply,” LaRouchelle said.

The RVA, which is open to the public, helps a number of community organizations. It raises money through raffles, which go on all year long, LaRouchelle said.

The club members have helped the Red Cross, using its function room upstairs to hold blood drives.

The Boy Scouts use the space after its Pinewood Derby. The American Cancer Society and other charitable organizations have held fundraisers there.

The club also supports veterans groups. It raises money to help the Veterans Outreach Center in Haverhill, which houses 22 veterans. In addition to food drives at the holidays, the club two years ago bought the center two turkey roasting ovens at Thanksgiving.

And several times a year, Edwards empties out the collection buckets and buys toiletries for the homeless veterans.

For more information or to donate money or a raffle item for the scholarship program, contact Jimmy Edwards or Bugg LaRouchelle at the RVA.

in Newburyport between talks at Harvard University and a Red Sox game at Fenway Park.

The former majority leader in the Senate has been a special presidential envoy to Northern Ireland and the Middle East and a negotiator between Major League Baseball and its players union. Expect him to be asked the differences between negotiating with the warring Protestants and Catholics in Ireland and the battling Muslims and the Jews in the Middle East.

He will probably also be asked his assessment of the U.S. Presidential race.

The event, scheduled for 4 p.m. at the Firehouse for the Arts, is sold out.

The festival’s opening ceremony begins at 6 p.m. at the Firehouse, starring the late Edna St. Vincent Millay, who was considered “the most seductive woman of her time” and America’s foremost love poet.

Millay grew up across the Merrimack River on Ring’s Island.

Her biographer, poet Daniel Mark Epstein, will talk about her life and work with art historian and poet Carl Little.

Also honored at this year’s festival is Debbie Szabo, a long-time admirer of Millay and an English teacher for 42 years, who began teaching at Newburyport High School in 1982.

At the high school, she founded the

creative writing club, which became a creative writing class, joined with students and local poets to start “Poetry Soup,” a forum for student poets; and began the Newburyport version of the Favorite Poem Project.

She coaches the prize-winning Newburyport High School poetry slam team for Boston’s “Louder Than A Bomb,” the largest youth poetry slam in the country. She will be honored at the closing ceremonies at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Firehouse.

The Dinner with the Authors is on Friday night at the Masonic Center.

It is the only event that has a price, $50.

The festival features authors in a wide variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and works for children and teens.

Saturday begins with one of the festival’s most popular events, Coffee with the Poets, at the social hall of the Central Congregational Church.

Featured will be Midge Goldberg, the recipient of the 2015 Richard Wilbur Award, the most recent of the many national prizes garnered by the Powow River Poets. Four other local poets, who have recently published new collections, will join her. They are A. M. Juster, Don Kimball, Alfred Nicol and Anton Yakovlev. David Davis will emcee.

It will be difficult to choose where to go next as authors discuss their books ranging from William

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These very popular programs provide 27 at 7:30 to discuss “Sometimes the plan_your_visit.html Special Spring an excellent opportunity to explore one Wolf” by Urban Waite. No sign up is of the most productive birding areas in required for book club and books are SEE, THINK, AND WONDER Presentation the country. To date, we have seen over available for check out at the library. WALKS FOR PRESCHOOLERS of 320 species of birds on these Wednesday For more information call 978-388In every kind of weather, our favorite field trips. Wed, Apr 27, 2016; 9:30 8148 or go to www.amesburylibrary. thing is to head outdoors to our am - 12:30 pm. Meet at Joppa Flats org. spectacular local habitats to see what’s Education Center, One Plum Island new! Not recommended for siblings Turnpike, Newburyport. $17. No INTRODUCTION TO under 3. Thu, Apr 28, 2016 2:00 pm preregistration required. For more COLLECTING AND INVESTING - 3:30 pm. Meet at Amesbury Town information, call 978-462-9998 for IN COINS Forest on Kimball Road. Fee: adult, information about additional programs Held at the Newburyport High $8/child, $7. Preregistration required.

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At 11:00 am Rowley Grange #204 is having a about coins. Learn the various aspects All programs are free and open to the public and Presented by: sponsored by the Rowley Public Library and Roast Pork Supper on April 27th. The of coin collecting that are important AUTHOR PRESENTATION Friends of Rowley Public Library e NorthIndependent Shore’s Largest Independent Community Newspaper argest Community Newspaper supper will feature roast pork and all determinants of value. Important as The Seabrook Library will present the fixings. This supper is a favorite well are that “coins are fun” to collect an author presentation and signing of amongst those who regularly attend the and satisfying collections can be formed the book, Master Thieves: The Boston AnnuAl Spring AnnuAl Spring Grange suppers. Servings are at 5 pm and enjoyed with relatively few coins for Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s pottery Studio pottery Studio and 6 pm, with continuous serving till very little money. Rick is able to answer Greatest Art Heist on Thursday, April open HouSe & SAle open HouSe & SAle 7 pm. To go dinners are also available. any questions about buying and selling 28, 2016, at 6:30 pm at the Seabrook If you make a reservation, tickets $8 for coins and assembling and appraising Library, 25 Liberty Lane in Seabrook.

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The THE SCENES TOUR! programs@buttonwoods.org. on the potter’s wheel, and see a on the potter’s wheel, and see a • Additions Langley-Adams Library, 185 Main St, Thursday, April 28th, 9:00 am freshly fired kiln load of pottery still freshly fired kiln load of pottery still FRIDAY, APRIL 29th • the Remodeling warm from fire, while having warm from the fire, while having Groveland. Please register for all events – 12:30 pm. Join a refuge ranger for at www.Langleyadamslib.org a behind the scenes tour of Great Bay light refreshments.

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IPSWICH READS...ONE BOOK! Closing Reception at the Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main St. Friday, April 29th at 6:30pm. Come help us celebrate another successful year of our community-wide read! Light hors d’oeuvres, wine, and musical accompaniment. Sponsored by the Friends of the Ipswich Library. $5.00 donation per ticket - All proceeds benefit the Ipswich Museum MERROHAWKE NATURE SCHOOL FUNDRAISER All are invited to the Blue Ocean Event Center on Friday, April 29th from 6:30 to 9:30 for Merrohawke’s 6th Annual Earth Day Bash, Fundraising Auction Benefit. Guests will be able to bid on signed sports memorabilia including a David Ortiz baseball and Tom Brady jersey, trips to Ireland, France and aboard an America’s Cup Yacht, priceless local art, and fantastic gift certificates to many of greater Newburyport’s finest businesses.

Proceeds will support nature education programs and scholarship awards.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 30th SPRING BIRDS OF DODGE RESERVATION Join Jim Berry for an early-morning walk to look and listen for spring migrants and returning breeding birds at a new open space area in Rowley, the Dodge Reservation. Discover this beautiful woodland as we look for returning warblers and other songbirds, barred owls, Cooper’s hawks, woodpeckers, and more. Saturday, April 30, 7:00-10:00 a.m. Fee: $18 ($15/Mass Audubon members). Directions will be sent. Advance registration is required; call 978-887-9264 or register online at massaudubon.org/ipswichriver.

DRUG TAKE BACK DAY See Page 13 AMERICAN GIRL DOLL CLOTHES AT ARTS/CRAFTS FAIR An Arts - Crafts Fair & Bake Sale will take place at the Market Street Baptist Church, 37 Market Street, Amesbury on Saturday, April 30 from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. This is a fundraiser to help pay off our building renovations loan.

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978-462-9998 for information about additional programs and events, or visit THE LONG WAY AROUND HIKE This hike explores the wild wonders the website at www.massaudubon.org/ of the Crane Estate! We’ll launch our joppaflats. long walk at the Cedar Point Trail and follow it to the Ipswich River, then ROWLEY LIBRARY BOOK meander along the beach and through DONATION DROP-OFF DAY The Rowley Library Annual Book seldom-traveled paths to the trailhead & Bake Sale will take place on the at the Crane Wildlife Refuge. We’ll weekend of May 13-15. The Friends wander the dunes to Essex Bay, then of the Rowley drop-off day is at the make our way along the backside of library, April 30, from 9 am - 12 noon. Crane Beach to reach the Essex River.

Please donate only clean, gently used A bag lunch will be delivered to us at books. We cannot accept broken, dirty, the approximate halfway point, and musty, or books with odors. We also do will give us the sustenance we’ll need not accept textbooks, magazines, VHS to finish the hike! Come prepared for tapes or audiocassettes, encyclopedias, a leisurely long-way-around walk of or outdated computer, travel and about 8 miles. Crane Estate, Ipswich reference books. If you would like to Saturday, April 30| 10AM-2PM. Prehelp sort books or volunteer for the sale registration is required. Members: $28 Nonmembers: $35 (Bag Lunch email booksale@rowleylibrary.org included!) Recommended for ages 15 & up. Please note: Children ages 15 ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR & BAKE and older are welcome to participate SALE An Arts + Crafts Fair & Bake Sale if they are capable of keeping up with will take place at the Market Street the group when hiking through soft Baptist Church, 37 Market Street, sand for a distance of approximately Amesbury on Saturday, April 30 from 8 miles (round-trip). www.thetrustees.

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Community Announcements AMESBURY- The Market Street Baptist Church, 37 Market Street, Amesbury is hosting an indoor Yard Sale & Bake Sale on Saturday, May 14 from 8:00 am – 12:00 noon. Something for everyone! Donated items fill the gym Community Connections at the back of the building. Nothing is priced- pay what you can afford. Yard Sale proceeds go toward funding the traveling expenses for church volunteers’ mission trip to Canada this summer and Bake Sales go to Building Renovation Fund. This will be the 8th year connecting with Pastor Ian MacFarlane and the members of the Living Hope Community Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Each year volunteers spend the week with this church helping with children’s programs like Vacation Bible School and Bible Basketball. The Canadian church’s volunteers also come to Amesbury to help with similar programs. Both churches have made a supportive bond with each other from these trips.

• -----------------------------------------------------------AMESBURY - Voices of Distinction, a community chorus with members from the North Shore and Southern New Hampshire, will perform on Friday and Saturday evenings, May 6 and 7 at 8pm at the Main Street • Congregational Church, UCC at 145 Main Street in Amesbury, MA. “Voices of•Joy…songs that make you smile” marks the 14thyear for this “little chorus with a heart” under the musical direction of Danny Smith. The chorus has regularly performed in Kingston, NH, and has performed numerous times in Amesbury. This is the first spring concert in Amesbury. The 30 men and women of the chorus, along with musicians from the local and Boston area will delight audiences with a wide variety of choral arrangements certain to “make you smile”. Tickets are available in advance for $15 at the Church office,(978-388-0982) or at the Right Cut in Kingston, NH (603642-8428), at the door the evenings of the performance, or on line at www.voicesofdistinction.org for $20.

-----------------------------------------------------------GEORGETOWN - The Country Gardeners Georgetown is pleased to offer a scholarship to one graduating senior from either Georgetown High School or a graduating senior who resides in Georgetown. The applicant is expected to continue their education in the fields of: Horticulture, Floriculture, Landscape Design, Forestry, or Environmental Sciences. To obtain an application, applicants may contact their Guidance Office or the Country Gardeners Georgetown Scholarship Committee, c/o Nancy Zapf,126 Elm St., Georgetown, Ma 01833. 978352-8331. Applications are due May 15, 2016 -----------------------------------------------------------GROVELAND - Electronic Recycling Fundraiser - Groveland Pack 113 and Troop 87, Saturday May 7, 2016. 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. Perry Park (intersection of King St. & Main St.) Help keep our environment clean by recycling your electronics, while supporting the Scouts. Bring down Computer Monitors, TV’s, VCR/DVD, etc. and we will recycle them for a small fee. For more info. contact: Troop87groveland@gmail.com For price list: www. grovelandpack113.com -----------------------------------------------------------HAMPTON - Hampton Garden Club plant sale on May 21 from 9-1 at the Hampton Town Hall, 100 Winnacunnet Rd, Hampton, NH. Annuals, Perennials, Bake sale & Rain Barrels available.

-----------------------------------------------------------HAMPTON - The Hampton Arts Network, a non-profit art organization focusing on community art education, is pleased to announce it will be offering a free Summer Arts Enrichment program. It will take place Aug 8-12 for students in grades 6, 7, 8 within SAU 21 & SAU 90. It will be held at the St James Lodge in Hampton.

Last summer HAN was able to launch this program through successful fundraising efforts by its members. The purpose of Summer Arts Enrichment program is to encourage self-expression, self-esteem, and help develop creativity & problem solving skills. It was a rewarding experience for the students to be engaged with the arts and make new friends. Each day a different art medium will be taught by a HAN teacher. Students need to commit to attending all five days. Students will be selected based on their creative & persuasive essay about why they should be selected for the program. No demonstrated artistic talent is required. Deadline for applying is May 13.

If not already in hand from the school, applications may be obtained by emailing juliamartinell15@hotmail.com.

Besides this summer program, HAN also helps organize the “Youth Impression” art show at the Provident Bank in Hampton in every March. Additionally, members share their artwork in the monthly Town Hall display and at a display of “Art in Bloom”, held on June 8th at the Partridge House in Hampton. For more information or to become a member please go to their website at www.hamptonartsnetwork.org.

-----------------------------------------------------------IPSWICH - The Ipswich Museum is looking for volunteers to work as tour guides, greeters and in the museum store. Our summer tour season begins on May 28, 2016. Tours include the Whipple, Heard and Knight Houses.

Training Sessions are during the first 3 weeks of May. Come meet new friends and share Ipswich’s rich history with visitors from far and near. To volunteer or for more information, call 978-356-2811 or email us at office@ ipswichmuseum.org -----------------------------------------------------------KINGSTON -- New Creation Gardens at New Creation Healing Center, 80 Route 125, Kingston, announces its first Open House for gardeners on Saturday, May 14th, from 9:30 to 12:00 noon. This will be the first of a series of Open Houses on the second Saturday each month from May through October. Each of these Open Houses will include a presentation by at least one Master Gardener from the Rockingham County Master Gardeners. The topic for May 14 is “Preparing the Soil.” For more information please contact Dan Weaver, danvw@prodigy.net, or 603-679-1808. Registration is helpful and a donation of $5.00 will be appreciated to continue our endeavors for the community.

-----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORT - All are invited to the Annual May Breakfast on Saturday, May 7, 8-11am, at the First Religious Society, 26 Pleasant Street, Newburyport. Breakfast will be served in the Parish Hall, the smaller building next to the church--follow the balloons. Enjoy a hearty breakfast of local eggs, ham, veggie sausages, baked beans, hash browns, apple cinnamon pancakes with local maple syrup, fresh fruit salad, and baked goods, as well as Fair Trade coffee, tea and juice. $6 adults, $4 children.

-----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORT - Rummage Sale at Belleville Congregational Church, 300 High St, Newburyport - Our annual rummage sale will be held on May 7th from 9AM to 1PM Come for great bargains!

-----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORT - On May 20th the North Seacoast Area Senior Action council will meet at the Newburyport Senior Center, 331 High St. Newburyport at 10:00. All area adults are welcome, no need to be a member.

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Our speaker this month is Ellen Gould who will talk with us about smart and affordable dental health care, an important subject for many seniors.

We will also have information about a statewide initiative to improve access Community Connections and lower costs of all dental care. Each meeting of MSAC includes a short business meeting, time for meeting new and old friends over coffee, a speaker, and time for discussion. We start promptly at 10:00 and try to end all meetings by 11:30 -----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORT - On May 21st from 1-5 p.m. Come take a wonderful walking tour throughout downtown Newburyport and stop in at 30 + stores and cafes to sample tasty chocolate treats. Everyone is welcome and we promise a fun, spirited day. Tickets are just $15. Just 400 tickets are sold so don’t • let this slip by….a great Mother’s Day gift too! The Tour is organized by the Central Congregational Church of Newburyport and 100% of the proceeds will go to three local community programs: The Greater Newbury Elder Pet Fund; Prescription Refill Programs for seniors through 4 local Councils on Aging; The Coastal Trail Coalition - Advance tickets may be • purchased at these Newburyport locations: Brass Lyon, Newburyport Olive Oil Co.,•B.C. Essentials and at Fresh Hair Studio (traffic circle). Tickets will also be available on the day of the event outside the Unitarian Universalist Church located on Pleasant Street or in Market Square (center of town). Many thanks to the Institution For Savings and Parry and Parry Corporation for their sponsorships. To volunteer or for further information, please call Diane at 978 465-1285 also www.facebook.com/newburyportchocolatetour -----------------------------------------------------------NEWBURYPORT - Belleville Roots Music presents Cheryl Wheeler in concert at the Belleville Stage, 300 High Street, Newburyport, MA on Saturday, May 14th at 8:00PM. Tickets are $30 in advance/ $35 day of show/$10 children 18 and under. For more information, please email: bellevilleroots@gmail.com or visit: www. bellevilleroots.org.

-----------------------------------------------------------ROWLEY - Rowley Reads 2016 will wrap up on Sunday May 1 with an Afternoon Tea, served in honor of this year’s author, the Victorian era science fiction master H. G. Wells. Join us from 2-4 pm on May Day at the Rowley Public Library, 141 Main St., where we’ll have all the traditional sandwiches and sweets, along with fresh brewed tea. Entertainment will be provided by harpist Carol Littlefield McIntyre. The Rowley Public Library is celebrating the 125th anniversary of its founding in 1891. The Rowley Reads Afternoon Tea is sponsored by the Friends of the Rowley Public Library and is free and open to the public. Sponsors want to acknowledge the generous gift of an assortment of china teacups and saucers by Doug Morris of Old Town Bread, also in Rowley.

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-----------------------------------------------------------ROWLEY - The Rowley Police Association is currently conducting a fundraiser. Local residents and businesses are being contacted for sponsorships and ticket sales. The association is hosting a team of former Boston Red Sox in a benefit Softball game to be held at Eiras Park on Saturday, June 25th at 12:00. The Association is raising funds for local scholarships, youth athletics and the many other worthwhile endeavors the officers support. If you would like to purchase tickets to the event you may contact 978-270-7888. We hope to see you at the game!

-----------------------------------------------------------ROWLEY - The Rowley Book Club is currently reading The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton. In wealthy and religious 17th century Amsterdam, Nella, the new young wife of a wealthy merchant, hires a miniaturist to recreate her new home. But as his work begins to mirror the real-life counterparts, secrets are being revealed, dangers await, and the future becomes uncertain for all of them. We have copies available at the library, so pick one up today, then join us for a discussion on Thursday, May 5 at 6:30 p.m. Watch for the announcement of June’s title, a classic. The Rowley Public Library is located at 141 Main Street and is fully accessible. For more information, call the library at 978-948-2850.

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