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Northshore October 2025
  Salem’s South River Canal was once home to Pickering Oil Company. The narrow waterway, barely there at low tide, was flanked on both sides by industry. Now, historic buildings, stripped to their bare bones, are slowly beginning to house creative types, nonprofits, and a popular brewery, biergarten, and taproom. Just down from the Derby Street neighborhood that once housed Polish and Russian immigrants, classic German and Czech beers are served on communal tables. Beer drinkers can observe fish jumping and ducks making their landing beneath little twinkly lights. When Notch opened to much fanfare this summer, it was obvious
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