Based upon our experience prioritizing city investments, and the specific plans that have passed through the City Council since we left, we believe that the project will have lasting value to Newburyport, fully commensurate with its cost...
Today, we face a new opportunity: whether or not to create a modest, reasonably priced Recreation and Youth Services Center that will serve our young people as well as us older folks...
I am writing in support of building the new Newburyport Recreation and Youth Services recreation center. I consider the cost of constructing this facility reasonable and well worth paying given the benefits...
Newburyport has had a positive and progressive history of recognizing and addressing the needs of its community constituents. From the investments in the school system...
I am voting yes in the special election on May 13 to ensure that Newburyport Recreation and Youth Services finally has a permanent home, and I encourage all of my neighbors to do the same...
The vote on May 13 is not a vote of seniors vs families or renters vs. homeowners. This vote is a chance to make clear that we are a city that prioritizes community...
I ran for office because watching the City Council repeatedly kick the can down the road on this issue was deeply frustrating. Thankfully, after years of hard work, we are finally at a turning point...
As president of the Newburyport Girls Basketball Association (NGBA) the board and I have volunteered thousands of hours coordinating basketball programs for Newburyport girls. We use every available hour in the winter in Newburyport schools...
This project has been extremely well vetted, researched, debated, and years in the making. There have been over 50 public meetings and opportunity for comment...
I came of age in Newburyport when teens sarcastically called our hometown "Nothing-to-do-buryport." Fast-forward to today, where we have Andi Egmont and the Department of Recreation and Youth Services doing heroic work...
NEWBURYPORT — For a few minutes Friday afternoon, six current and former city mayors, along with two past state officials, stood outside the proposed home for Newburyport Recreation and Youth Services...
Newburyport has an important decision to make on May 13. For 20 years, we’ve invested in our Youth Services department, which has continuously met the evolving needs of our community...
I am on a fixed income. And...I looked carefully at the actual cost of the proposed recreation center. I have already voted yes by mail and with confidence...
Some on the City Council continue to talk out of both sides of their month concerning the recreation center. They say they are in favor of it, yet they continue voice opposition...
As a Newburyport resident, and a parent who works full-time outside of the home, I'm writing to share my support for the proposed new recreation center...
I am a senior citizen, and I’m tired of people using my age group as a reason to say no to the rec center. No one on the City Council or at City Hall has ever asked me...
While I respect Councilor Preston's fiscal concerns, voting no on May 13 would likely cost us more, not less, all while delaying the benefits the NYRS location will bring...
I remember being taken aback the first time I realized what Newburyport Recreation and Youth Services had been relegated to after they lost access to the Brown School...
On May 13, we have an opportunity to show up, once again, for each other. The 40 assets published by The Search Institute, guides my practice as a clinician working with families...
As president of the Newburyport Education Foundation, I've spent much of the past 13 years helping to raise funds in support of Newburyport Public Schools...
As a working mom of a kindergartner at Bresnahan Elementary, I know firsthand how badly Newburyport families need more options for after-school care...
As a city councilor since 2018, I've watched the youth services department move from place to place through two administrations as pathways were explored for...
