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The Springhouse at the Josiah Benner farm in Gettysburg, Pa., was used as temporary cover for skirmishers of both armies and would have provided water and "refrigerated" food for wounded in the hospitals of the Benner house and barn. Until the National Park Service purchased the property in 2011, the springhouse was in grave danger of collapsing. Last winter park staff completed emergency stabilization on the structure which included archeology, and rebuilding several of the walls.

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  • Developer plans $20M plaza A proposed land swap with the state would allow a private developer to build a $20 million shopping plaza on Brimbal Avenue with stores, restaurants, a bank and medical offices. The plaza, to be called North Shore Commons, would have about twice as m

    June 19, 2013

  • Route for cable work changed A Salem neighborhood got a partial reprieve yesterday when National Grid announced it no longer plans to install an underground transmission line down Derby Street, a narrow roadway that runs through a downtown business district. Not laying the new c

    June 19, 2013

  • Police get a two-fer during robbery investigation SALEM -- A Salem robbery investigation took a "Law and Order"-style turn when, police say, while seeking to question witnesses to a robbery, they discovered a prostitution business being run by the suspect's girlfriend. Now, both Aaron Pelletier, 44

    June 19, 2013

  • Former attorney for victims of plant explosion indicted DANVERS -- A lawyer who represented some business and property owners affected by the 2006 CAI ink plant explosion in Danversport has been indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury on charges that he invented additional, fictitious victims of the disas

    June 19, 2013

  • 130510_SN_KYU_PIONEER Salem Pioneer Village may stay open for summer

    SALEM -- The city is working on a plan to keep Salem Pioneer Village from closing this summer. Gordon College announced last month that it will not renew its agreement to manage the city-owned living history site. The Wenham college will finish its c

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