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  • Bird Watch: Sightings in Essex County and beyond

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    These recent sightings are compiled by Sue McGrath of Newburyport Birders. Report your sightings to Newburyport Birders at newburyportbirders@comcast.net or 978-204-2976.

    Bell Avenue/Gilman Park, Exeter, N.H.: Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, American Black Duck, Mallard.

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  • Woman’s body recovered from water in Newbury

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    NEWBURY — A woman’s body was pulled from the water Thursday on Plum Island north of Fordham Way, according to Essex County District Attorney Paul Tucker.

    Newbury police responded to a call about a body in the water near Harvard Way at 11:46 a.m. The unidentified woman’s body was recovered by the Newburyport Fire Department and transported by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Tucker said in a statement late Thursday.

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  • Words on Birds: Gannets, loons and ducks on the move

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    Large numbers of the water birds are migrating over the ocean this time of year and each time we look is different.

    Salisbury Beach State Reservation and Plum Island are excellent view points where you can see gannets, loons, grebes and sea ducks. When the wind is off the water, many come close enough to see with the naked eye, but a pair of binoculars or spotting scope helps to see the birds farther out.


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  • Words on Birds: Autumn on Plum Island can be magical

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    Autumn is a special time on Plum Island, especially on those crisp, sunny fall mornings. Such mornings remind me of a tale told by the late Doug Chickering a number of years ago when he paid a visit to the Parker River Refuge in autumn and shared with us the magical spirit that this natural place holds. I thought that this would be a good time to share it with you once again:

    “I drove onto the refuge a half hour before dawn and started the day with a walk out to the edge of the marsh from the Wardens – looking for sparrows. It was a splendid way to start a perfectly cut gem of a mid-autumn day. I stood in the shadows as the rising sun illuminated the broad sweep of the salt marshes and the hills of Newbury on the far side. In places the sun flashed off the windows of the distant houses. Heading north were small groups of Egrets laboring in low flight, almost yellow in the new sunlight, off to fishing pools somewhere out there.


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  • Bird Watch: Sightings from Greater Newburyport and beyond

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    These recent sightings are compiled by Sue McGrath of Newburyport Birders. Report your sightings to Newburyport Birders at newburyportbirders@comcast.net or 978-204-2976.

    Great Neck, Ipswich: Eurasian Wigeon, Mute Swan, Gadwall, American Widgeon, Mallard, Green-winged Teal, Mourning Dove, Killdeer, Semipalmated Plover, Greater Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Semi-palmated Sandpiper, Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Little Blue Heron, Snowy Egret, Great Egret, Osprey, Yellow-shafted Flicker, Blue Jay, American Crow, Black-capped Chickadee, Tree Swallow, House Wren, Marsh Wren, Carolina Wren, Gray Catbird, American Robin, Cedar Waxwing, House Sparrow, House Finch, American Goldfinch, Song Sparrow, Bobolink, Baltimore Oriole, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Common Yellowthroat, Northern Cardinal.


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  • Plum Island drawbridge work resumes

    Plum Island drawbridge work resumes

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    NEWBURY — Repairs to the Plum Island Turnpike drawbridge resumed Thursday, reducing the only way on or off the island to one lane – a traffic pattern that is expected to remain for roughly two months, according to town officials.

    As a result, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation will employ a temporary alternating traffic pattern on the bridge as crews complete structural steel repairs. Work is scheduled to take place from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. until mid-December but crews may work around the clock if necessary.

    In a statement, Newbury police Chief Patty Fisher called the repairs “necessary” and said she is pleased work is taking place when it will have the least possible impact on Plum Island traffic.

    “I appreciate that it’s expected to be completed before the first snowfall,” Fisher said. “It goes without saying that people traveling through the single lane should use caution and abide by the traffic signals and speed. Be mindful that pedestrian and vehicle traffic are sharing the lane.”

    While temporary traffic control signals and barriers are in place, a 24/7 signal-controlled, alternating traffic pattern will be used as work is performed beneath the bridge deck.

    Signs and police details will also be used to guide drivers through the work zone. Drivers traveling through the work zone should expect delays, reduce their speed and use caution as the eastbound/westbound traffic patterns are subject to change, according to MassDOT.

    Fisher said workers will be often stationed under the bridge.

    “Just because you can’t see them, doesn’t mean they aren’t there,” Fisher said.

    The work is being completed as part of a $7.7 million districtwide drawbridge operations and repair contract.

    In March, MassDOT noted some deterioration in the steel along with some heaving of a limited portion of the bridge deck. MassDOT worked with the U.S. Coast Guard to implement a detour to keep the bridge closed to marine traffic until the interim repairs were performed, according to a MassDOT spokesperson.

    That prompted MassDOT officials to devise a plan to shift motorists away from the center of the bridge where deterioration was discovered so that the interim repairs could be made. The temporary traffic plan was implemented April 19 right before those repairs began.

    An April 19 advisory from MassDOT stated the drawbridge would not be open to marine vessels through Aug. 5 to allow for repairs to the road surface. The speed limit on the bridge was reduced and traffic was periodically limited to one lane to allow the state to restore the bridge to full capacity. Because one lane will remain open at all times, Newbury first responders will not be stationed on the island during construction, according to Fisher.

    “We only station responders there if we anticipate the turnpike will flood or they’re opening the bridge,” the police chief said.

    Fisher encourages residents to sign up for the town’s CodeRed rapid response notification system and to follow the Newbury Police Department on Facebook for the latest project information and for important messages throughout the year. To sign up for CodeRed, visit public.coderedweb.com/CNE/en-US/943F7ED331D9.

    Dave Rogers is the editor of the Daily News of Newburyport. Email him at: drogers@newburyportnews.com. Follow him on Twitter @drogers41008.

    Dave Rogers is the editor of the Daily News of Newburyport. Email him at: drogers@newburyportnews.com. Follow him on Twitter @drogers41008. 

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  • History Happenings: Sept. 23, 2024

    History Happenings: Sept. 23, 2024

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    On this day in 1661, Newbury families were given their rightful piece of Plum Island “to everyone his just right” beginning at the upland near “Merrimack barre and so extending to Sandy Beach.”

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