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Northshore October 2025
  Ashley Bush enjoys the hours just before dawn, when most people are still fast asleep but the first hints of a new day are stirring—so much that even when her bakery, Buttermilk Baking Co. in Newburyport, doesn’t require her to prepare the day’s offerings, she’s still awake. “There is something about the four o’clock hour that I love,” says Bush, who opened Buttermilk in 2012. “Just before daylight, it’s quiet—like a Zen hour. It’s one of my most favorite times to bake alone.” Bush enjoys that predawn vibe even more since moving into her new space this spr
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