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  • Elementary school green screen takes kids around the world

    Jim Sullivan, The Daily News of Newburyport|Dec 11, 2016

    AMESBURY, Mass. (AP) — While Amesbury Elementary School has been serving the city's students for 57 years, there's very little room left to grow. But the spark of innovation is glowing and one hall in particular is now a doorway into whatever world the teachers want it to be after technology teacher Bruce McBrien turned it into a TV studio. "We have a wall in a hallway here that is just a pass-thru," McBrien said. "And I thought, what if I paint the wall green?" A 22-year AES veteran, McBrien has been making use of green-screen technology for m...

  • Man's garden thriving in dry conditions due to water method

    Jim Sullivan, The Newburyport Daily News|Sep 4, 2016

    AMESBURY, Mass. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — With local cities and towns putting water bans into place at an alarming rate this month, Ed Tivnan would like everyone to know the state of his garden. "My garden has never been better, it's always watered," Tivnan said. "But the chipmunk is getting at it more than I would like it to be. I have to get up early in the morning to keep the chipmunk away. I've got the only tomatoes around." The chipmunks have been able to gorge on tomatoes in the middle of this summer's severe drought at Tivnan's A...