Newburyport's Mayor-elect Donna Holaday will join other newly elected mayors at a meeting with Gov. Deval Patrick at the Statehouse today. Holaday was called by Patrick following her win on Nov. 3. That phone call was followed up with a message from his aide inviting her to the meeting. Holaday earned 55 percent of the vote on election day and will become the city's next mayor in January. Last night, she was congratulated on her victory by Council President James Shanley and given a standing ovation.
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Salisbury police officer fired
SALISBURY — Mark Thomas, a 24-year veteran of the Salisbury Police Department, has been fired, culminating a lengthy investigation into his behavior that began more than a year ago.
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According to Town Manager Neil Harrington, Thomas was notified of his termination Wednesday, after his disciplinary hearing closed on Feb. 3 and Harrington made his decision. Thomas was fired for being found "culpable" of two counts of conduct unbecoming an officer: specifically, failure to devote full attention to duty by studying for the bar exam while on duty, and a lack of truthfulness, for falsifying his career record on his application for admittance to the FBI National Academy. -
ConCom endorses open space
NEWBURYPORT — The Conservation Commission voted this week to "express interest" in 19 acres of open space the city stands to receive if Tropic Star LLC of New Hampshire is successful in winning a rezoning on Storey Avenue.
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Missing Merlin
For more than a week, Caitlin Pumphrey and Steve Brunton of Haverhill have been searching for Merlin, their 10-year-old miniature greyhound who slipped his collar while just outside Merrimac Valley Animal Hospital on Route 110 and took off into the surrounding area.
But yesterday, the search for Merlin drew several random people into the fray after they reported seeing the fleet-footed dog inside St. Joseph's Cemetery down the road, at the on-ramp to Interstate 495 at Route 150 and at other nearby areas.
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Proposed Triton assessments up 5 percent
BYFIELD — The Triton Regional School Committee Wednesday night approved a $36 million budget for fiscal 2013 that will require an almost 5 percent increase in the overall net assessment for the three towns in the district.
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Officers receive suspensions for barroom brawl
SALISBURY — Two Essex County correctional officers were suspended without pay yesterday for a total of four months for their roles in a barroom brawl that broke out at a fellow corrections officer's birthday party last month.
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Salisbury police officer fired
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