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Northshore October 2025
Aside from opening presents on Christmas Day, baking holiday cookies may just be one of the most joyous—and tastiest—of seasonal tasks. The sweet aroma of sugar cookies baking in the oven mingles with the scent of a twinkling evergreen standing sentinel in your family room. The snow falls silently outside your kitchen window—all is right with the world. Darlene Vella, owner of Bellavella Cookies in Topsfield and winner of this year’s Best of the North Shore cookie award, grew up on the North Shore in a big Italian family and learned how to cook and bake from her mother and aunts. Later, as a stay-at-home mom, she wa
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