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Ex-assistant assessor will fight dismissal
Former Georgetown assistant assessor Paul D'Olimpio is challenging his recent dismissal, contending that the town violated its personnel rules and the state Open Meeting Law.

ATV ban brings quiet to forest, few complaints
It's a quiet afternoon in the Georgetown-Rowley State Forest, and that's not a bad thing.

Feeling all too foreign
There are whispers in Revere about drivers who are stopped by police because they look foreign. In Everett, there are similar anxieties.

Citizens sue FAA over air traffic
A group of Chelsea residents, including a city councilor, has sued the Federal Aviation Administration, arguing that noise levels over the city have become intolerable as a result of the increased use of runway 33L for departures at Logan Airport.

Water bank aims to lessen demand on Ipswich River
Danvers has become the first community in the Ipswich River watershed to establish a water bank, a fund required by the town's agreement with state environmental officials to limit the amount of water - and promote conservation - in the fragile river basin.

Groveland override bid loses, but three others advance to polls
Residents advanced a number of proposed property tax increases but turned thumbs down on several others in local voting that began Saturday.

Hoping to build a superior court
SALEM - Witch hysteria built the walls on Courthouse Row: It was here that the state's superior court system was born, just a few months after 20 people were sentenced to die as witches in 1692.

Mystic malady
Matt Shuman has trudged through some miserable weather, inched down icy rocks, and wrapped numb fingers around carefully collected samples of frigid river water as a volunteer foot soldier in a regionwide brigade of citizen scientists.

Finance board chairman is let go
After nine years on the Finance Committee, including six as chairman, Sandy Jacques will not be serving another term.

For many, nursing is a mid-career choice
We've all heard the old nursery rhyme about the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker.