Essex Daily Current, Saturday, October 17

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Good morning, Essex. It's Saturday, October 17. From the Cape Ann Current, I'm Kerry Jane, with your Essex Daily Current, free public information for Essex. Today, the school building committee sends the new elementary school design to the state. Plus sports and Cape Ann library costs.

At its Tuesday, October 13, meeting, the Essex School Building Committee voted 10 to 0 to send the schematic design for the new Essex Elementary School to the state. The total project cost is $95,351,985. Town meetings in Essex and Manchester by the Sea will vote on the funding on November 16, with ballot votes following on December 10.

In high school sports, the Manchester Essex girls soccer team lost to Marblehead 1 to 0 on Friday. The Manchester Essex football team played at Triton Friday night, but a score was not posted early today. On Monday, the boys soccer team plays at Mystic Valley at 4:30 p.m.

This weekend in Essex, Choate Island Day runs today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Crane Wildlife Refuge. Tonight, Gigi and The Noize play at The James from 7 to 10 p.m.

A review of state records shows the four Cape Ann towns spend about $62 a person each year on their public libraries. State library commissioners say publishers often charge libraries five to six times the consumer price for digital book licenses. A profile of the Essex library will be published in two weeks.

The National Weather Service expects a cooler and windy day today, with a high near 49. A small craft advisory is in effect until 2 a.m. Sunday. Tomorrow is expected to be sunny and near 53. High tide in Gloucester Harbor is at 4:33 p.m. today. Tides in the Essex River run from about 9 minutes earlier to 20 minutes later.

That's the Essex Daily Current for Saturday. Everything we share is free public information from public records and government data. For updates from all four Cape Ann towns, and every source, go to capeanncurrent dot com. I'm Kerry Jane, the Cape Ann Current's host. Catch the Daily Current again tomorrow. Keeping Cape Ann current.

Stories in this episode

• Cape Ann's best deal: 400,000 books, movies and more for about $62 a person
• Essex school building committee sends its $95.4 million design to the state, 10 to 0
• Cooler and windy Saturday near 49, patchy frost possible early Sunday, small craft advisory on the bays
• Scoreboard: Gloucester field hockey wins 1 to 0 at Masconomet, Gloucester football beats Swampscott

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