Gloucester Morning Current, Wednesday, October 7

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Good morning, Gloucester. It's Wednesday, October 7. From the Cape Ann Current, I'm Kerry Jane, with your Gloucester Morning Current. Today we look at every change to the city's budget this year.

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The City Council's Budget and Finance Committee meets Thursday to review changes to Gloucester's spending plan. A new tracker shows the committee has looked at 130 requests since January. Those include a 3.32 million dollar loan for Saint Peter's Landing and Marina and 400,000 dollars for overtime during the summer 2025 trash strike. Tomorrow's agenda includes police grants and 12,000 dollars for wayfinding signs.

A plan for an indoor pickleball complex at 36 Whittemore Street goes back to the Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday. The property owner is asking for a change of use and fewer parking spaces than zoning requires. The board meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall and on Zoom.

In city meetings today, the School Committee's Building and Finance Subcommittee meets at 5 p.m. The Conservation Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. The City Council Planning and Development Committee meets at 6 p.m.

Today at the Sawyer Free Library, you can catch a free film screening of Secret Knowledge followed by a question and answer session from 2 to 4 p.m.

In high school sports, the Gloucester field hockey team beat Beverly 1 to 0 on Tuesday to stay perfect at 9 and 0. The golf team fell to Marblehead 47 to 25. Today, boys soccer hosts Winthrop at 4:30 p.m., and girls soccer plays at Winthrop at 5:30 p.m.

The National Weather Service expects a sunny and milder Wednesday with a high near 62 and southwest wind gusts up to 23 miles per hour. High tides in Gloucester Harbor are at 9:16 a.m. and 9:37 p.m.

We also remember James F. Dort Senior, 90, and Mary Jo Montagnino, 82.

That's the Gloucester Morning Current for Wednesday. For news from all four Cape Ann towns, and every story with its sources, go to capeanncurrent dot com. I'm Kerry Jane, the Cape Ann Current's newsreader. Catch the Morning Current again tomorrow. Keeping Cape Ann current.

Stories in this episode

• Follow the money: see every change to Gloucester's budget this year
• Meetings today and Thursday: Rockport water and schools, Gloucester budget changes, the Essex school's next community meeting
• Sunny and milder Wednesday, near 68 Thursday with a stray shower possible
• Indoor pickleball complex proposed for Whittemore Street goes back to Gloucester's zoning board Thursday
• Scoreboard: Gloucester soccer takes on Winthrop, Rockport and Manchester Essex field hockey on the road

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