Essex Daily Current, Monday, October 19
Essex Daily Current · Monday, October 19 · 2:27
Essex selectmen vote on Fall Town Meeting dates, school committee weighs budget
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Good morning, Essex. It's Monday, October 19. From the Cape Ann Current, I'm Kerry Jane, with your Essex Daily Current, free public information for Essex. Today we look at upcoming votes on the Essex Elementary School project and Fall Town Meeting.
The Board of Selectmen votes tonight on holding the Fall Town Meeting on November 16 and a special election on December 10. Tomorrow at 6 p.m., the Manchester Essex Regional School Committee meets at the middle high school and online. The agenda includes approving the Essex Elementary School project budget and borrowing. The Essex School Building Committee approved the project's schematic design on October 13. On Wednesday, October 21, the Community Preservation Committee meets at 5 p.m. to review requests for kayak racks, erosion control, and a downtown rail trail design. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Planning Board holds a public hearing at Town Hall on proposed articles for the Fall Town Meeting.
In public meetings today, the Board of Selectmen meets at 6 p.m. in Essex.
The Burnham Public Library hosts a self portraits storytime and art session today from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tomorrow, the Land and Sea Club meets at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum from 3 to 5 p.m.
In high school sports, the state athletic association had not posted a score for Friday's Manchester Essex football game at Triton by early today. On today's schedule, boys soccer plays at Mystic Valley at 4:30 p.m. Tomorrow, boys soccer travels to Georgetown at 4 p.m., and girls soccer hosts Georgetown at 4 p.m.
The National Weather Service expects a sunny day today with a high near 56. A small craft advisory takes effect tonight through Wednesday evening, with northeast winds expected to bring gusts up to 29 miles per hour and seas forecast to build to 5 to 7 feet tomorrow. High tide in Gloucester Harbor is at 6:29 p.m. today, and tides in the Essex River run from about 10 minutes earlier to 1 minute later.
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That's the Essex Daily Current for Monday. 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
- Tuesday on Cape Ann: Manchester Essex school board takes up the Essex Elementary budget and borrowing, Gloucester weighs a higher shellfish catch limit
- Sunny Monday near 56, then a windy northeast stretch: small craft advisory on the bays from tonight to Wednesday evening
- Scoreboard: five varsity games Monday, six more on Tuesday's MIAA schedule
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