Unlike many families in the North Shore, mine often chooses the mountains over the beach as a place to spend time in the summer. Climbing Monadnock is in our annual repertoire, as well as some other favorites in the southwest corner of New Hampshire – Skatutakee and Thumb, Gap, Pack Monadnock, and more. With my […]
August is a dream. Groggy mornings start out warm, ambling along into lazy humid afternoons. The air lingers on your skin like salt spray, not unwelcome, recalling a satisfying day in the surf. Mid-month, the full Sturgeon Moon rises and sets, and menacing green heads make a hasty retreat. Visitors to beaches and banks in
On an exceedingly hot summer day (one of many this summer) a friend and I went down to the river. What started out as a quick dip in the river evolved when we had the shared idea that it would really be a lot of fun to take a tube over the nearby beaver dam.
River herring are remarkable fish that are overlooked today for the important role they once played in the ecology and history of the Ipswich River. The once thriving herring run of the Ipswich has almost entirely disappeared due to dams and other obstructions along the river as well as low flows. The Ipswich River should
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Hello, I’m Alex Paul. I am studying environmental engineering at Purdue University and have the pleasure to be doing volunteer work for Ipswich River over the summer. The main project that I am working on is the herring habitat assessment of 4-mile pond in Boxford. This entails taking measurements and readings to see if it
Despite what might be a universal desire for lazy summer afternoons and long summer vacations, that doesn’t seem to be the norm across the North Shore this summer. Town and city staff and volunteer board members are on the receiving end of more and more applications for development and redevelopment projects. One local Planning Board
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