Friday, March 2nd– Amidst pouring rain and intense gusts, the school day continued as usual for the students at Essex Technical High School, with one exception. On the ground floor, informational tables were being set up for Taste of Essex; an event organized to give everyone in the school’s community the chance to explore all […]
Keeping water clean is an important part of protecting the Ipswich River. This job requires community members coming together and looking out for the river. This basically describes the RiverWatch program; a community driven, volunteer monitoring program which tracks indicators of river health. Many dedicated individuals take part in the program and we are pleased
Middleton: drive through this central watershed town and you may notice green posts placed alongside the road at various spots. The posts mark and name the places where roads cross the Ipswich River and its tributaries as they flow through town. Tributaries vary in sizes and in the openness of their banks. Without these posts,
Efforts to improve river health and enhance public safety on the Ipswich River recently got a big boost thanks to a state grant strongly supported by our local legislative delegation. On February 16, 2018 the Baker-Polito Administration announced a $22,397 grant to support surveys for the removal of the South Middleton Dam. In the press release every
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Parent volunteers usually help Greenscape Coalition staff run the six stations that make up the Greenscapes Keeping Water Clean program, but at South Elementary in Andover our help came entirely from the enthusiastic teaching staff. After gathering in one of the 5th grade classrooms and doing a brief run-though, the teachers were geared up to
“Some photographers take reality… and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.” Ansel Adams The late winter and early spring are perhaps not New England’s most attractive periods of the year. Certainly their palettes can’t
Starting at 8am on a recent Monday morning, streams of elementary students poured into Topsfield’s Proctor Elementary School, carrying instruments and heavy backpacks. Soon, band music came drifting down the hallways. Meanwhile, in the school library, Ipswich River Watershed’s Outreach Manager, Rachel Schneider, was hard at work preparing for another kind of stream. This one
We love the spring and are excited for all the fun events that it brings: Beginners Paddles, gardening days, and Paddle-a-thon 2018 to name a few. Winter, though, offers its own opportunities for exploration and discovery. While the only way to get out on the river right now is to walk on ice (and only
