Ipswich Select News Today

It would be fun, I think, to run for a position on the Ipswich Select Board. Making speeches, inspiring the masses with brilliant rhetoric, shaking hands, slapping backs, kissing babies.

Doug Brendel Worried about what, exactly? Helen Weatherall can tell you. She’s that high-energy member of Ipswich’s Green Energy Committee and Community Development Steering Committee, and an associate member of the Planning Board, who’s now running for the lone soon-to-be-open position on the Ipswich Select Board. Helen has been out campaigning, street to street, door to door, and she’s gotten an earful from local residents. They’re worried about lots of things, she reports: the stat...