Ipswich Select Board News Today

The dam, which has existed in some form since the 1600s, is now at the center of a heated debate.

Ipswich residents will vote Tuesday on whether to remove the town's aging Ipswich Mills Dam. Some say the dam is a piece of the North Shore town's history, and still provides the locals with recreation, while others argue the dam is compromising the river's fish and natural flow of water.

Recount is over and there won't be any more. Final resolution will be decided in Superior Court if Lenny Mirra files a challenge.

Select board to review how dead end has worked over the last year.

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...