When we moved to the South End of Newburyport a year and a half ago, We were surprised to find that we didn’t hear about any Neighborhood Associations. We came here from the South End of Boston, which has many NAs. We asked a few people, but no one knew of any.

Rather than write a treatise on what NAs could do, we suggest anyone with even a mild interest check out www.cnaboston.org, which is the web site of the NA to which we belonged in Boston.

When we first sent this posting to Mary, she told us that there is a South End NA, although it seems to be inactive. We have written to the email address she has, asking to get involved. Although we’re sensitive to our position as newcomers (although we did live across the line in NH for 25 years and spent lots of time in Newburyport), we think there are going to be lots of reasons to have an active NA in the near future, and we’d like to help.

Dick & Nanci Monahan, Newburyport