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RE/MAX Insight opens office in Seabrook

RE/MAX Insight, based in Salem, N.H. and licensed in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, announces that it has expanded to the Seacoast area with the opening of its second office, in Seabrook Beach.

"We are very excited about the opportunity and wanted to build on our existing Seacoast presence," said Darlene Dolan, managing broker for the new office. "We already have several agents based in and serving the seacoast communities and we are seeing more demand for this unique RE/MAX Insight business model from more and more seacoast Realtors. We see this as a fantastic time to build upon our talented agent base and serve the customers in this region."

This office, at 12 Ocean Blvd., will serve the needs of the customers and real estate agents in the Seacoast communities and will have a particular focus in Seabrook, Hampton, North Hampton, Hampton Falls, Rye, Exeter, Salisbury and the Greater Portsmouth, N.H., area, among others.

Jendrysik now creative director of Mechanica

Ted Jendrysik, award-winning copywriter and creative director, joins Mechanica as creative director. He will work on a variety of the agency's accounts. Before joining Mechanica, Jendrysik was creative director at Arnold and prior to that, an SVP creative director at Mullen, both located in Boston.

Mechanica, a 7-year-old Newburyport-based firm, employs 20 strategists, creative directors and brand directors pioneering a new approach to creating compelling, profitable brand experiences. Current and recent Mechanica clients include: Saucony, Global Pari-Mutuel Solutions, Weight Watchers, FCHP, Communispace, Kronos, PTC, Abt and Associates, Symantec, the U.S. State Department and Irving Oil.

Bank continues to sponsor concerts series

Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank's President and Chief Executive Officer Janice C. Morse recently announced that the bank has renewed its sponsorship of the Saturday evening concert series at Maudslay Arts Center at Maudslay State Park in Newburyport. The bank was the founding sponsor of the Maudslay Arts Center series during 2005/2006. To view the 2011 summer season, visit http://www.maudslayartscenter.org/category/events/

Dr. Jim Sisolak Joins Videyko Chiropractic

Dr. Jim Sisolak of Georgetown has joined the team at the office of Dr. Robert Videyko in Newburyport. Sisolak received his bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland before continuing to Parker Chiropractic College in Dallas, Texas, and earning his doctor of chiropractic degree. He then spent three years with a chiropractic spinal rehabilitation facility in the Dallas area before working for several years with a large practice in the Merrimack Valley area.

Family friendly hotel, Amherst/North Hampton/Holyoke, MA area ...

My husband and I want to take our daughters (almost 4 and 18 months) for a short two day trip to Western, MA sometime this summer. Two places we want to hit are the Eric Carle museum in Amherst and the children's museum in Holyoke. We need a family friendly hotel to stay at for two nights. We would like it to have a pool, but it doesn't have to be fancy. Where do you suggest we stay? Amherst or North Hampton or Holyoke? We would like to be pretty close to the town we stay in. Any info would be helpful as I do not know much about this area, even though I have lived in eastern and central MA my entire life. Any ideas on what other things to do with younger little ones in this area?

There are a bunch of chain hotels along Route 9 in Hadley that will put you between the Eric Carle Museum and Rt 91 to Holyoke. A colleague comes to town often and stays at the Quality Inn, which she likes very much (and they have a pool for the kids.) Also on Rt 9 there's a Hampton Inn, EconoLodge, Holiday Inn Express, Courtyard by Marriott, Howard Johnsons. Surprisingly neither Amherst nor Northampton have much in the way of hotels, although there is a Clarion in Northampton with both an indoor and an outdoor pool, though the hotel itself is kind of skeevy. The Autumn Inn is nice in Northampton and has a sweet small pool. It is set up motel style but is right near the Smith College campus ( beautiful for walking) and pretty near Look Park, which has a small kid sized water park, bumper boats, mini golf, big fields to run in, a train which runs around it and a sweet small zoo with deer and other local animals. I have never met a kid who did not love Look Park.

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