Amy Palmer

The Special Town Meeting was scheduled to start at 7 p.m. last Tuesday. It was almost 10 p.m. before the first article came up for a vote. The first delay was the lengthy check-in. Some residents waited more than 30 minutes in a line that stretched down the Middle/High School hallway and out to the football field. Then came the technical difficulties. As residents continued streaming in, town officials worried they did not have enough electronic voting devices. Ipswich owns roughly 800 working c...

The Ipswich Police and Fire Chiefs pleaded with voters for a new public safety facility at Town Meeting on Tuesday night. “My station is over 90 years old and was built as a warehouse,” Police Chief Paul Nikas said to the packed room. “The building is now unhealthy and a danger to everyone who works in it and everyone who visits it.”“This project isn’t for Chief Nikas and I,” Fire Chief Paul Parisi said. “It’s for men like Blake Emerson, Beau Gauthier, Jack Bowen, Charles Ciccotelli — Ipswich so...

IPSWICH — The results are rolling in for the Massachusetts primary election on Tuesday, including right here in Ipswich.

IPSWICH — The flyers arrived first, appearing in mailboxes just before Annual Town Meeting with no indication of who funded and distributed them.The glossy orange-and-black leaflets outlined five reasons voters should reject a $9.8 million funding request for the proposed public safety facility. Then came the emails and text messages urging residents to support or oppose the measure. Some were sent on May 12, the day of Town Meeting. Others continued after voters narrowly rejected the funding re...

IPSWICH — Ipswich voters will decide whether to urge Congress to exercise its authority over President Donald Trump.

IPSWICH — Under a new state law, residents don’t have much of a say if their neighbors decide to build an accessory dwelling unit (ADU), according to building inspector Jim Bone.

IPSWICH — When Meagan Schmitt lost her younger brother Dan to substance use disorder in 2023, she felt utterly alone.

ROWLEY — When Len Charney signed up for Jumpstart Your Memoir, a writing workshop offered through the Greater Newburyport Adult & Community Education program, he didn’t realize that he would be the only “old man” in his class.

IPSWICH — When bestselling author Jenny Jackson returned to Ipswich this week, she began to see her hometown in a whole new light.

IPSWICH — Eight months ago, Ipswich High School graduate Reilly Miner set off for Cambodia without a return ticket or a clear timeline for coming home.The young musician was leaving home to join Cambodian Living Arts, an organization dedicated to reviving traditional Cambodian music and arts.Miner first connected with the organization through Orchestra on the Hill, where he performed as a featured soloist as the recipient of the Frederic and Susan Winthrop Young Artist Award and now serves as di...