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Monday, October 5, 2026
A Danvers home sale cracked $1.4 million last month as September closings across town held steady.
From Danvers News
- Danvers home sale tops $1.4 million in September. Danvers News' September real estate roundup leads with a home sale that cracked $1.4 million, tracking how closings across town held up through the month and what it signals heading into fall.Danvers News
Today in Danvers
- Topsfield Fair sets giant pumpkin record. A 2,598-pound pumpkin set a state record at the 208th Topsfield Fair's opening weekend, which also crowned youth royalty and held its traditional hot dog eating contest, Danvers Patch reports.Danvers Patch
Coming up
- Mon, Oct 12, 5:00 p.m.: Fingerprint appointments offered for firearms licensing. Danvers will offer fingerprinting for firearms licensing applicants on Oct. 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. at 120 Ash St., part of the town's standard process for prospective gun owners.Town of Danvers
- Mon, Oct 12: Town offices closed Oct. 12 for holiday. Danvers town offices will be closed Monday, Oct. 12, in observance of Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day, with normal hours resuming the next day.Town of Danvers
Recent editions
- Saturday, October 3, 2026 — Precincts 4 and 6 residents can meet town officials Oct. 8 at Smith Elementary
- Thursday, October 1, 2026 — Danvers Municipal Light Board reviewed a possible change to the fuel adjustment charge on electric bills
- Wednesday, September 30, 2026 — Danvers Department of Public Works to begin overnight road paving work this Thursday night with D&R Paving
- Monday, September 28, 2026 — Danvers Electric plans public open house at its Burroughs Street facility Oct 1
- Sunday, September 27, 2026 — Danvers conservation officials ordered a peer review of wetlands claims at two Cherry Hill Drive properties
- Friday, September 25, 2026 — Nor'easter with damaging winds and heavy rain threatens Danvers weekend plans
- Tuesday, September 22, 2026 — Danvers continues sanitary sewer rehabilitation program as two new projects get underway
- Sunday, September 20, 2026 — Danvers logs 15 property transfers this week with sale prices reaching $1.1 million