Peabody Downtown Street Sweeping For Spring Begins Soon

PEABODY, MA — Peabody will begin its annual downtown spring street-sweeping program this month.

The Department of Public Services will perform the operations during the night and overnight hours of April 17.

The sweeping will help prepare downtown Peabody for the Patriots Day ceremonies on April 21.

• Peabody, Danvers To Co-Host 250th Anniversary Patriots Day Events

"This is indeed a milestone in our region’s shared Revolutionary history," Peabody Mayor Ted Bettencourt said. "Patriots Day is always such a poignant holiday and this 250th anniversary commemoration will be something truly special."

Peabody police will post "No Parking" signs on the afternoon of April 15 and will be on hand to ensure vehicles are removed from the streets according to this schedule:

• Walnut Street: No Parking 10 p.m. - 5 a.m.
• Washington Street: No Parking 11 p.m. - 5 a.m.
• Foster Street: No Parking midnight - 5 a.m.
• Main Street: No Parking 1 a.m. - 5 a.m.

Peabody and Danvers are teaming up to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the actions and battles that launched the Revolutionary War.

A speaking program and presentation by re-enactors from the Danvers Alarm List Company will include markers set at Peabody's historic Lexington Monument — erected to honor the seven soldiers from Danvers that gave their lives in April 1775. The Danvers Alarm List Company has marked the loss of the Danvers residents at the Battle of Menotomy in Arlington for the past 50 years.

More than 300 ordinary citizens joined the Danvers Militia, Minute and Alarm list companies and answered the call on April 19, 1775, marching 16 miles from the training field in Salem Village, now Danvers, for four hours to confront the British troops, driven by unwavering determination and commitment to liberty.

From 9 a.m. to noon, Peabody will close a portion of Washington Street from Main Street to Pleasant Street. Parking is available in several nearby lots, so visitors can enjoy the temporary plaza from the Bell Inn property at historic Eagle Corner to the Peabody Historical Society HQ in the General Gideon Foster House at 35 Washington Street

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)