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Northshore October 2025
  Merri-Lee Steeves always wanted to own an ice cream shop. Back when she was a little tot, she told her mom she wanted to sell ice cream when she was a “big girl.” “Apparently I’m a big girl now,” Steeves says with a laugh. After careers in home staging and early childhood education, she opened Harbor Creamery in July in Newburyport, making small-batch ice cream in the town where she grew up. The cozy shop has a good amount of indoor seating, including an adorable children’s table stocked with the classic Mo Willems Elephant and Piggie book Should I Share My Ice Cream? Inside space was cri
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