http://www.towncrossings.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164125158.html Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:53:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164125158.html Volunteers stood behind a long line of tables in Topsfield's Emerson Center as the Strawberry Festival began at 10 a.m. Saturday. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164130546.html Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:02:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164130546.html Ann Noyes of Middleton and Heidi Fox of Topsfield were honored recently along with 268 other women as the 2007 Unsung Heroines of the Year at the Statehouse. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_156143758.html Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:38:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_156143758.html On June 15, local cancer survivors will don purple shirts and walk a triumphant lap on the grounds of the North Shore Technical High School in Middleton, marking the kick-off of the first time a Relay for Life will be held here. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164144005.html Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:03:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164144005.html Over a recent weekend, four Topsfield teens drove to Bethlehem, Penn., to represent the Lower New England states in one of the more competitive lacrosse tournaments in the country. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164144136.html Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:41:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164144136.html The Topsfield Town Library's Meeting Room will take on a surreal and abstract feel for June. The library is featuring lifelong Topsfield resident Meri Turcotte's paintings in an exhibition called "Dreamscapes." http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164144343.html Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:43:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_164144343.html Topsfield news in brief http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_156131057.html Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:11:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_156131057.html The Tri-Town Rotarians had two honored guests recently at one of their weekly luncheons at Angelica's Restaurant. They were joined by Nancy and Holger Luther of Topsfield, this year's recipients of the Rotary Club's Annual Outstanding Community Leaders Award. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_149123951.html Tue, 29 May 2007 12:39:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_149123951.html Just in time for summer, the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary will celebrate with its annual Audubon Nature Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_149122317.html Tue, 29 May 2007 12:34:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_149122317.html The annual Strawberry Festival, in its 40th year, will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 9, on the Topsfield Town Commons. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_149110901.html Tue, 29 May 2007 11:09:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_149110901.html The halls of Masconomet Regional High School on a recent Wednesday were quieter, when an estimated 200 students observed a Day of Silence, organized by the school's Gay-Straight Alliance to represent and draw attention to the quieted voices of a gay community. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_142132642.html Tue, 22 May 2007 13:24:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_142132642.html The Topsfield Fairgrounds will come alive with color, flavor and music for the 12th annual Americana Arts & Crafts Festival on Saturday, May 26, Sunday, May 27, and Monday, May 28, (Memorial Day) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_142132351.html Tue, 22 May 2007 13:20:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_142132351.html After their summer vacation, many teenagers will talk about the beach, but 25 students from the Topsfield area will have a different story to tell. They'll spend a week in July rebuilding a neighborhood in New Orleans still in ruins nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_135112959.html Tue, 15 May 2007 11:28:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_135112959.html Fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at the Proctor School were entertained at a recent event by doing somethig most people would find as exciting as watching paint dry. They watched bread rise. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_135112714.html Tue, 15 May 2007 11:27:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_135112714.html A bright new exhibit has moved into the Topsfield Town Library's meeting room for May: work by children ages 4 to 14 from Topsfield, Boxford, Middleton, Danvers and Ipswich. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_135110741.html Tue, 15 May 2007 11:06:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_135110741.html Middleton in brief http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_129165501.html Wed, 09 May 2007 16:53:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_129165501.html After several days of windy, overcast conditions recently, the skies finally cleared for a beautiful day of hiking at the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary. Three groups of 10 children, led by sanctuary staff and volunteers, began their trek at 10 a.m. as the sun began to poke through a few leftover clouds. It was the third day of the wildlife sanctuary's April vacation activities, aptly named "Splash Splosh." http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_129165030.html Wed, 09 May 2007 16:48:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_129165030.html About 20 tots sat on the carpeted floor of the library's meeting room, intently listening to children's librarian Jane Johnson share three tales about trees. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_122115836.html Wed, 02 May 2007 11:56:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_122115836.html In brief: Topsfield, Middleton http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_122115437.html Wed, 02 May 2007 11:55:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_122115437.html The Topsfield Fairgrounds will be bustling with the over-60 crowd in Topsfield, because the bee keeping building will now be the Council on Aging's new semi-permanent home. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_slideshow_115110150 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:01:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_slideshow_115110150 The clock at Topsfield Town Hall has been restored and now runs on its own, thanks to Norm Isler and Bob Winship who created a mechanism so the clock no longer needs to be wound. Photo by Linsey Wuepper http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_113163507.html Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:35:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_113163507.html By the time Yoko Kawashima Watkins was 12 years old, she had seen more autrocities and experienced more tragedies than most people might experience in a lifetime. But she survived. Now 73, the prize-winning author travels to schools to share her story of post-World War II Japan. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_113163141.html Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:29:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_113163141.html As part of Town Clean Up Day on Saturday, April 28, the Town Keepers of the Clock are offering free tours of the Clock Tower at Topsfield Town Hall from 8 a.m. to noon. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_113162737.html Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:27:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_113162737.html The Topsfield Council on Aging welcomed its helping hands to an annual luncheon at the Gould Barn April 12 and honored three volunteers with the Silver Tree Award for volunteers of the year. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_107120507.html Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:03:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_107120507.html As spring temperatures begin to melt winter's heavy frost, flowers are beginning to bud all over New England. Even inside the Topsfield Town Library, flowers -- as well as art -- will be in full bloom. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_107120159.html Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:02:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_107120159.html The ABT Yoga Studio on South Main Street holds a weekly class at about half at the cost, with all the money going to benefit Help for Abused Women and their Children, a Salem-based organization that offers free and confidential domestic-violence programs and services. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_100104707.html Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:00:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_100104707.html This month, the walls of the Topsfield Town Library will come alive with the bright, primary colors of six artists in an exhibit called Making Art. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_100104107.html Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:00:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_100104107.html Children in Uganda live much different lives from those growing up here. But thanks to 38 advanced placement senior art students at Masconomet Regional High School, some of those orphans now have a piece of their childhood to hold on to forever. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_100104438.html Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:44:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_100104438.html Many home-schooled children don't have the same performance opportunities as their public-schooled counterparts, so a group of mothers formed a theater program for them. Their production, "American History Alive," makes its debut Saturday. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_093152820.html Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:26:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_093152820.html The Trinity Episcopal Church will be showing the Academy Award-winning film "An Inconvenient Truth" at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18. http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_093152612.html Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:24:00 EDT http://www.towncrossings.com/topsfield/local_story_093152612.html Advanced Placement art students at Masconomet Regional High School, led by teacher Terry Meinelt, just completed paintings for the Memory Project, a nonprofit organization started in October 2004 by Ben Schumaker, a University of Wisconsin student who became inspired while in Guatemala.