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The City of Beverly's inauguration ceremony was held on Jan. 3, with the swearing in of all newly elected or re-elected public officials.

Despite calls to temporarily pause the installation of a transmission line through Beverly, National Grid intends to go forward with the project.

BEVERLY — An industrial site on Sohier Road continues to show high levels of contamination d… The online meeting, which was hosted by Mayor Mike Cahill and attended by about 60 people, marked the first public meeting in nearly two decades about the cleanup at Varian. Cahill called for the meeting after residents raised concerns following a story by The Salem News detailing high levels of contamination in the groundwater at the site at 150 Sohier Road, despite a cleanup that has been going on since 1992. BEVERLY — New testing found no evidence that contamination from the former ...

By Paul Leighton Staff Writer Dec 24, 2020 Feb 26, 2021 JAIME CAMPOS/Staff file photoThe former Varian site on Sohier Road in Beverly, where a hazardous waste cleanup has been going on for nearly 30 years.  Jaime Campos BEVERLY — New testing found no evidence that contamination from the former Varian site is impacting nearby homes, according to a report released this week by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. But the report indicated that chemicals from the site could be seeping into a commercial building ...