Vikings comeback once but not twice ROCKPORT — Clinching a state tournament spot will have to wait for another day for the Rockport baseball team as they lost, 11-5, to visiting Pentucket at Evans Field yesterday afternoon.
The Vikings (8-6, 5-5) came back to tie it after being down 5-0 early but couldn't answer Pentucket's (8-4, 6-3) six runs in the last two innings. ...continued
Rockport's Motif No. 1 Days schedule of event Schedule of events for Rockport's 60th annual 'Motif No. 1 Days'
Saturday, May 17 r RHS Concert Band, 10 and 11 a.m.
Haskins Building, 37 Main St. "The Way We Were" and "The Pirates of the Caribbean"...continued
Editorial: Firefighters' vote against OT deal betrays residents Mayor Carolyn Kirk seemed clearly frustrated by the vote. Firefighters' union president Barry Aptt said he, too, was "disappointed" after the department's rank and file shot down a deal carved out between Kirk and Chief Barry McKay, and the union's leadership. ...continued
Victory gardens: An idea whose time has come — again Victory gardens — also called war gardens — were promoted twice in the last century, during World Wars I and II, to reduce the pressure on the public food supply caused by the wars.
The concept was also considered a morale booster. Planting and maintaining fruit and vegetable gardens empowered the people who participated and rewarded them with inexpensive and wholesome food....continued