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Northshore October 2025
Donna Roy moved to Essex with her family when she was 11 years old. As an adult, she stayed in town to raise her own three children. Now her grown children have returned to start their own families in the place where they were brought up. And Roy wants everyone to discover what her family has known for so long. “I tell anyone shopping for a home, ‘This is where you want to be,’” says Roy, who is the manager at The Essex Room, the banquet facility that is part of the iconic seafood restaurant Woodman’s. “It has the best of what the surrounding communities have come to offer.” Essex is nestled between a pair of
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