Essex

Several homes on a Massachusetts street had to be evacuated Monday when a military explosive was found by a cleaning crew, authorities said. The home where the ordnance was found, on Wood Drive in Essex, had been recently sold, according to the Essex Police Department. A crew was cleaning it when the unknown ordnance was found inside. The suspicious item…

Seven young people who were detained at Vermont’s now-closed juvenile detention center and another facility are suing state officials and staff alleging “obscene abuse” at both facilities that they say state officials ignored. Vermont closed the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex last year after a drop in the number of kids housed there and a lawsuit accusing the...

A Vermont man is once again using an attention-getting SUV — decked out in hundreds of Christmas lights — to promote his family’s charity toy drive. “This community is awesome,” Troy Austin said of Essex and Essex Junction’s support for the upcoming event dubbed Troy’s Toy Drive. Austin is a security officer who last year, to spread some much-needed...

A New England man is once again driving around in a brightly lit SUV, and for a good cause.

Voters in the Vermont village of Essex Junction on Tuesday overwhelmingly decided to break up with the town of Essex and form a whole new, separate city — though that still needs approval by state leaders. It has been a full century since Vermont has seen an incorporated village splinter off from its parent town and strike out on its…

A Vermont village is facing its own miniature Brexit Tuesday as Essex Junction considers whether to break away from Essex.

When you see an alternative route to a U.S. highway (usually labeled “A”), chances are it’s going to be more scenic and interesting than what its faster-paced sibling has to offer. Take Route 6 on the Cape, for instance. Much of the road is basically designed to get drivers from one point to another as quickly as possible, while...

Police have found Barbara Nadeau, 87, of Essex, Massachusetts, after he went missing in Burlington Monday night. Nadeau was found safe by the Colchester Police Department and is being medically evaluated by Colchester Rescue. Nadeau was reported missing after having last been seen leaving a location on Mansfield Avenue in Burlington on Monday at about 9:05 p.m.

A Vermont man decorated his SUV for Christmas, aiming to bring joy to his neighbors during the COVID-19 pandemic and to generate attention for a community toy drive. “I want people to be happy,” Troy Austin of Essex told NECN. The security guard wrapped his Nissan Rogue in what he estimated was a couple hundred dollars worth of Christmas lights….

Vermont resident Troy Austin decked out his SUV with Christmas lights

A gas heater is to blame for a two-alarm fire at a popular seafood restaurant in Essex, Massachusetts, fire officials said Monday. The fire broke out at Essex Seafood at 142 Eastern Ave. just before 11 p.m. Sunday. Fire departments from Gloucester, Hamilton, Manchester and Ipswich responded to the scene. Video from the scene showed flames tearing through the roof…

A town in Vermont’s Chittenden County is asking its neighbors to keep their eyes out for a distinctive weather vane that was stolen from an elementary school. “It’s devastating that it’s gone,” said first-grade teacher Susan Ayers, talking about what should be sitting on top of a gazebo that watches over Essex Elementary School. The weather vane in the...

A distinctive, weather vane with a deep and somber meaning was stolen from a Vermont elementary school.

Police say a woman using a snowblower near a road in Essex was hit and injured by a drunk driver. Essex police say the driver fled the scene Tuesday afternoon. He was found with help from a witness. The woman was taken to University of Vermont Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. Thirty-year-old Michael Arnold, of Essex, was charged with leaving…

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department is ending its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it announced on Tuesday. Instead, the department will pivot its focus to an expanded population of women entering the Suffolk County House of Correction, which it says is the largest growing population of incarcerated subjects in the country. This is, in part, due to an agreement...

A Massachusetts man who killed one man and wounded another in Lynn on Easter two years ago will spend at least 42 years in prison, prosecutors said Monday after his sentencing. William Cash, 47, received a life sentence for second-degree murder, 10 years for armed assault with intent to murder and 7 years for human trafficking, according to the Essex...

A Massachusetts was found guilty Friday for a double shooting in Lynn two years ago Easter Sunday that left one man dead and another injured, according to the Essex County District Attorney’s office. William Cash, 47, was found guilty Friday by a jury in Salem Superior Court.

The threat of EEE is continuing to grow in Massachusetts.

A young girl was hospitalized Thursday afternoon when she was struck by a vehicle in Essex, Massachusetts.

A child riding a bicycle was hospitalized Thursday after being struck by a driver in Essex, Massachusetts, according to police. The 12-year-old girl was hit by a Ford Edge just before 3 p.m. on Howard Street, police said. The girl was taken to Beverly Hospital, then airlifted to a Boston hospital, where the extent of her injuries is unclear.