WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.000 Manchester's Finance Committee finally voted on the senior center. Three in favor, four against. 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:11.000 Gloucester field hockey is fifteen and oh, and the football team won a game nobody played. 3 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:18.000 And the oil truck came to my house this week. I'm not telling you what I paid. I will tell you what the state says. 4 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 It's all coming up on The Weekly Current. 5 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:36.000 Good morning, Cape Ann. This is The Weekly Current from the Cape Ann Current, a free source of public information for Gloucester, Rockport, Essex and Manchester-by-the-Sea. I'm Kerry Jane. It's Sunday, October 25, and this is episode two. 6 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:49.000 Every Sunday we go through the week. What we covered, why, what it means for you, and what gets decided this week, before it's decided. Ana Lucia is here. Waterfront, business and history. 7 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:50.000 Good morning. 8 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:57.000 And Mateo Daniel. Sports, schools and community, and the police and fire logs every morning. 9 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.000 Let's go. Week two. 10 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.000 All right. Before the week, your week. 11 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.000 Ana Lucia. You first, because you teased it. 12 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:12.000 So. The oil truck came Wednesday. First delivery of the season. And I know what everybody wants to ask. 13 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:13.000 What did it cost? 14 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:26.000 I'm not telling you what I paid. That's between me and Rui and the man with the hose. But the state's weekly survey came out Monday. The average for heating oil in Massachusetts is six dollars and twenty three cents a gallon. 15 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.000 It was six eighteen when you wrote the story. 16 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:46.000 Six eighteen. A nickel more in a week. And 75 percent above this time last year, when it was three fifty five. Fill 150 gallons at that average and it's about 935 dollars. The calculator on the site does the math for your tank. 17 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.000 Wait. Did Rui know the truck was coming? 18 00:01:49.000 --> 00:02:03.000 Rui was at work. Rui found out when he got home and the radiators were on. He said, and I'm quoting, it's October. And Sardinha was on the bathroom radiator, judging the harbor. So two votes to one in my house. 19 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:16.000 And yesterday Carla had to work, so I took the kids to ClamFest in Essex. Lucas, Bea and Tomás. Shepard Memorial Park. It was 36 degrees when I picked them up, and sunny, and by noon it was fine. 20 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.000 You were in Essex and you didn't text me. 21 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.000 Farnham's is in Essex too. I'm just saying. 22 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.000 Woodman's is in Essex. I'm just saying. 23 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.000 I don't care. Onion rings. Moving on. What did the kids like? 24 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:40.000 The police dog. The Essex police did a K-9 demonstration at eleven, and Tomás, who is five, stood as close as they would let him and did not blink. Bea wanted to know if the dog gets paid. 25 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.000 That's the age. 26 00:02:42.000 --> 00:03:01.000 And Avó's saying this week. Em outubro, sê prudente: guarda pão, guarda semente. In October, be careful. Save bread, save seed. Put things away before the cold. We're making massa sovada this morning, the sweet bread, because she says the dough rises slow in a cold house. 27 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.000 Mateo Daniel. 28 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:19.000 Okay so. My Friday night got canceled. Gloucester was supposed to play football at Saugus, and Saugus called it off Monday. Safety concerns and not enough players, the Gloucester athletic director said. So it's a forfeit, and I had nowhere to be. 29 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.000 So where did you go? 30 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:36.000 Newell Stadium. Field hockey. Gloucester and Saugus, senior night, five o'clock. Clear, that north wind finally dying, 37 degrees by the time we left. Tito was outside the fence in his spot by the end line. 31 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.000 Did he bark at the seagulls? 32 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:49.000 He barked at the Saugus bus. Full bark. Then they read the seniors' names, and he sat down and didn't make a sound. That dog knows. I get quiet at senior nights too. 33 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:50.000 And they won. 34 00:03:50.000 --> 00:04:09.000 Four to nothing. Fifteen wins, no losses. The other thing. Thursday the wind was ridiculous, gusts to 35 on land, a gale warning on the water that night. And I ran anyway, because the 5K is Thanksgiving morning and I've been stuck at two and a half miles for three weeks. 35 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:10.000 And? 36 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:21.000 Three miles. No stopping. From my place in Rockport out past Front Beach and back. Into the wind going out, which was a mistake, and the wind pushing me home, which I'm counting. 37 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.000 The wind counts as a player. 38 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:34.000 And Sofia was on nights all week, so we talked at seven in the morning, her coming in, me going out. But she's off next weekend. So next Saturday I'm taking her to Woodman's. 39 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.000 So. 40 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:50.000 No. We did this already. My week. Last Sunday, the Halloween party at Stage Fort Park. Owen went as a harbormaster, as promised. And he told every adult who would listen that the traps have to be off St. Peter's Landing by November 15. 41 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.000 He learned that from us. 42 00:04:52.000 --> 00:05:02.000 He listens. And Maggie came, and stood exactly ten feet away from us the entire time. She took one picture of her brother. I saw it. I will never mention it to her. 43 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:03.000 And the week? 44 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:17.000 Wind. All week. Here's the thing about our house. The bulkhead door leaks when it rains sideways. It did not rain. So for the first storm in three years the bulkhead was dry, and Dan walked around like he'd fixed it. 45 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.000 Ha. Did he? 46 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:20.000 He did not. 47 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:21.000 Plum Cove? 48 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:38.000 Saturday, first light, 36 degrees, flat calm after all that wind. Nobody there. Chowder read every rock. And Friday night Dan and I went up to Halibut Point for the sunset. It was 37. We checked in on the app. That's 36 this year. 49 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:43.000 Dan said, we could watch it from the car. We did not watch it from the car. 50 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:47.000 Okay, the question. One week to go. Is the heat on? 51 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:58.000 The heat is not on. Dan's rule is November 1, and that's next Sunday. The kitchen thermometer said 58 Saturday morning. I had coffee in a hat. 52 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:59.000 And Ma? 53 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:10.000 Ma called Friday night and said, turn the heat on, and I said, Ma, it's a rule, and she said, it's a dumb rule. She's right. I'm holding anyway. 54 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.000 The landlord turned mine on two weeks ago. I have no notes. 55 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.000 Mine's been on since the 16th. I have a delivery. 56 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:23.000 One more week. Then we talk. All right. The Three. 57 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:38.000 Every week we pick the three things that matter most. A decision got made, or it's about to. It costs money or changes a rule. And it touches the most households. Ties go to the nearest vote. Number one is Manchester, and it's mine. 58 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:53.000 Thursday night the Manchester Finance Committee voted on whether to recommend the senior and community center borrowing for the November 16 special town meeting. Three yes, four no. So the warrant book, the booklet voters get, will say the committee does not recommend it. 59 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.000 Explain it to me like I'm at the game. What's the article? 60 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:14.000 It lets the town borrow up to 7 and a half million dollars for a senior and community center at the former Masonic building. Two locks on it. Nothing can be borrowed until voters pass a debt exclusion at the ballot box on December 10, and until 3 million dollars in gifts or donations is committed in writing or paid. 61 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.000 And last week the fight was over one word. 62 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:28.000 Grants. The committee wanted it out, so any grant lowers the town's borrowing instead of counting toward the 3 million. The Select Board took it out Monday. The committee still voted no Thursday. 63 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:29.000 Why? 64 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:37.000 The members who voted no said the town should wait until spring, that the cost is high, and that a big capital bill is already coming. 65 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.000 And the other side? 66 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:54.000 A Select Board member who was there said the board had rewritten the article to meet the committee's concerns and called the result disappointing. He said the no vote makes raising the 3 million harder. We don't take a side. The committee chair will explain the vote at town meeting. 67 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.000 Why did we cover it? 68 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:13.000 Because the finance director handed out a draft debt schedule the same night. Town debt payments, not counting the schools, are 2.38 percent of the operating budget this year. They climb to 6.89 percent in fiscal 2031. Town policy says stay under 10. 69 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:14.000 What does it mean for you? 70 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:27.000 If you live in Manchester, you decide this twice. At Memorial School on November 16, where the book says the Finance Committee says no and the Select Board says yes. And at the ballot December 10 if it passes. 71 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:29.000 Anything before that? 72 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:35.000 A public forum and open house on the center at the Masonic Hall this Tuesday, October 27, at 6:30. 73 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.000 What did we learn? 74 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:58.000 The same meeting fixed the explanation of the Essex school article. It says the state pays up to 36.84 percent of eligible costs. But the grant the district expects is about 20.9 million dollars, closer to 22 percent, because the state only counts construction up to 605 dollars a square foot. The book now says so. 75 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:05.000 Number two. Gloucester. Ana Lucia, it's yours, because it's every tax bill in the city. 76 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:24.000 So. Every fall the City Council decides how to split the property tax between homes and businesses. The total doesn't change. It's the same pile of money. The vote decides who carries more of it. Thursday, the council's Budget and Finance Committee recommended the same split the city has used for ten years. Three to nothing. 77 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.000 Explain it to me like I'm at the game. 78 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:48.000 The city can raise at most 113 million, 667 thousand, 604 dollars in property taxes this year. The committee backed a small shift onto business, a factor the assessors call 1.03. Homes pay about 9 dollars and 3 cents. Businesses about 9 dollars and 33 cents. 79 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.000 What does it cost? 80 00:09:50.000 --> 00:10:07.000 For a 750 thousand dollar home, the shift saves about 15 dollars a year compared with one rate. A business worth the same pays about 210 dollars more. Both rates are down from this year, 9 31 and 9 61, because values rose about 7 percent. 81 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:10.000 Wait, so my taxes go down? 82 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:26.000 The rate goes down. Your value probably went up. The median single family home in Gloucester is now 775 thousand, 500 dollars. Single family values rose 7.37 percent on average. So most bills go up a little even with a lower rate. 83 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.000 Why did we cover it? 84 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:43.000 Because homes are now 91.7 percent of all taxable value in Gloucester. In 2014 it was 88.8. One councilor said he'd have liked a bigger shift onto business, back toward the old 90 to 10 split, but had no support. 85 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:44.000 And the chair? 86 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:52.000 The chair said a single rate would be fairest to the small business base. The mayor said keep 1.03. They kept 1.03. 87 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:53.000 What does it mean for you? 88 00:10:53.000 --> 00:11:07.000 Tuesday night. The full City Council holds the public hearing and the vote Tuesday, October 27, at 6:30. People who came Thursday were not allowed to speak, because the committee only recommends. Tuesday is where you speak. 89 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.000 What did we learn? 90 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:27.000 The same committee backed a 132 thousand dollar state grant for more downtown wayfinding signs and new HarborWalk signs, two to one. The no vote came with a statement that the first signs cost 33,800 dollars each, and that the sign and art projects are part of a pattern pushing out the fishing industry. 91 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:28.000 And? 92 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:33.000 Another councilor asked what signs had to do with a hoist. That's the record. 93 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:41.000 Number three is Essex, and it's Mateo Daniel's, because it's the school. 94 00:11:41.000 --> 00:12:03.000 Okay so. Monday night, Essex selectmen signed the warrant for a fall town meeting on Monday, November 16, at 6:45 at Essex Elementary. Nineteen articles. And they set the special election on the school for Thursday, December 10, 7 to 8, at the Public Safety Facility. 95 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:04.000 What's the number? 96 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:21.000 The warrant lists the whole project at 95 million, 351 thousand, 985 dollars. The state grant at about 21 million. The Essex share at about 24.8 million. Manchester's share at about 49.6 million. 97 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.000 What does it cost, per house? 98 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:38.000 The town administrator said the district's financial adviser ran it two ways. If the payments stay level every year, the new cost is about a dollar eighteen for every 100 thousand dollars of property value in Essex. In Manchester, about 84 cents. 99 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.000 Why the gap? 100 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:46.000 Manchester homes are worth more, so the same house has more hundred thousands to spread it over. 101 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:47.000 And the other way? 102 00:12:47.000 --> 00:13:01.000 Pay more up front, less every year after. That drops the peak to about 95 to 99 cents in Essex and about 70 cents in Manchester, and you pay less in total. Nothing's decided. The district picks after the December 10 votes. 103 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.000 Why did we cover it? 104 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:25.000 Because now it's real. There are dates. Two thirds at town meeting, a majority at the ballot. The Finance Committee chair said six of her seven members backed the project in a straw poll, and that fixing the current school would cost about 53 million with no state money, about 7 million less for the town. That's her saying it. 105 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.000 And the rest of the warrant? 106 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:38.000 Six zoning articles. Wednesday the Planning Board recommended all six, six to nothing each, and nobody spoke at the hearing. Nobody, in the room or online. 107 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.000 What are they? 108 00:13:39.000 --> 00:14:04.000 New wetlands district lines, because the current ones use maps from April 1974. Definitions for battery storage and data centers. A special permit for battery storage. A moratorium on data centers until January 1, 2028. Ten percent affordable in any project of six or more homes. And the top zoning fine goes from 20 dollars a day to 200. 109 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:05.000 Twenty dollars. 110 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:25.000 Hold that, it's my one thing. And article 8, a full time fire chief. Essex runs its fire department through a Board of Fire Engineers, a group of fire officers. The article adopts a state law so the selectmen can hire a full time chief starting February 1, 2027. 111 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:26.000 How do they pay for it? 112 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:38.000 By moving 50 thousand dollars inside the department's own budget, mostly from training salaries and administrative hours the new chief takes on. The Finance Committee chair said these are reallocations, not cuts. 113 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:39.000 What does it mean for you? 114 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:57.000 If you live in Essex, November 16 is a long night and a big one. The selectmen meet November 2 at 6 with time for questions about the warrant. The last community meeting on the school is November 4 at 6 at the school. And the Finance Committee chair said she hopes to avoid another override next year. 115 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.000 What did we learn? 116 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:14.000 The building inspector caught something. As written, the battery rule means a house with solar panels and a backup battery would need a special permit. The warrant is signed and can't change. So the board is asking town counsel whether it can be fixed on the floor of town meeting. If not, it waits for spring. 117 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:26.000 One line of history. Those wetlands maps are from April 1974. Fifty two years. Essex is retiring a map that's older than Mateo Daniel. 118 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.000 Older than Kerry Jane. 119 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.000 Thank you for that. The Desk. 120 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:34.000 Quick ones. Ana Lucia, business. 121 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:52.000 State spending. Massachusetts agencies paid 592 and a half million dollars to Cape Ann over the last six budget years. Only 26 and a half million of that bought things from Cape Ann businesses. That's about 5 cents of every 100 dollars the state spent on goods and services. 122 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:53.000 What did it buy? 123 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:57.000 A quarter of it, 6.6 million, was plowing state roads. 124 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:59.000 And people can look that up. 125 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:23.000 The State Spending Explorer is live under Business. Any payment, any year. Also the Rockport Public Library lent 18.4 items per resident last year, the most on Cape Ann. The state median is 10.4. And the Gloucester Cultural Council has about half its usual money to give this year, 10,175 dollars, because grants promised last year were never set aside. 126 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:44.000 Mine. Rental registry. Gloucester landlords who still haven't renewed got one last letter. About 32 properties were left as of October 8, down from 394 notices in September. If they don't register, the city files in district court and asks for fines of up to 500 dollars a day. A judge decides, not the board. 127 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.000 Cable. 128 00:16:45.000 --> 00:17:01.000 The four towns are starting talks with Comcast on new cable licenses, and the regional committee heard a survey. 202 people answered. 89 don't subscribe to Comcast at all. More watch local meetings on YouTube, 105 mentions, than on cable, 66. 129 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:24.000 Okay, roads. The big one from Wednesday. We matched four years of police crash reports, about 2,500 crashes across the four towns, to the state's pavement ratings. Washington Street in Gloucester had 266 crashes since January 2023, the most of any road on Cape Ann. Route 128 through Gloucester, 196. Grant Circle, 22, the most of any intersection. 130 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.000 Outside Gloucester? 131 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:45.000 Rockport, Main Street, 51. Essex, John Wise Avenue and Eastern Avenue, 32 each. Manchester, mostly Route 128. And Gloucester, Rockport and Essex each had about one mile in five of their numbered routes rated poor by the state. The Gloucester report is next. 132 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:46.000 Scores. 133 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:58.000 Gloucester field hockey. Six to one over Swampscott Tuesday, four to nothing over Saugus Friday. Fifteen and oh. Football gets the forfeit over Saugus, so they're six and one, and play at Beverly Saturday the 31st at 11. 134 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:10.000 Gloucester boys soccer beat Peabody three to two and lost to Salem two to one. Volleyball swept Georgetown and Whittier. Girls soccer beat Whittier four to nothing Friday after losing to Peabody and Salem. 135 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.000 Rockport. 136 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:32.000 Rockport boys soccer. Two to one over Amesbury Tuesday, two to nothing over Lynnfield Thursday at home. Girls soccer beat Amesbury three to one, then lost to Lynnfield eight to one. Field hockey lost to Amesbury and Lynnfield, and hosted Essex Tech yesterday at one. That score wasn't posted when we recorded, so check the scoreboard. 137 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.000 Manchester Essex. 138 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:48.000 Boys soccer beat Mystic Valley two to one and Georgetown four to one, then lost to Essex Tech one to nothing. Girls soccer tied Georgetown two two and Essex Tech one one. Field hockey beat Essex Tech two to nothing. 139 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.000 And the football score? 140 00:18:49.000 --> 00:19:01.000 Finally posted, from the Friday before. Triton 48, Manchester Essex 8. Every game is on the site, from the MIAA. Win or lose. 141 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.000 Tito's game report? 142 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:15.000 Tito reports the Saugus bus received a full and fair bark, and the seniors received silence. He also reports Essex Tech is in Danvers, which confuses him every time. 143 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:30.000 It confuses everyone. One from the water. Little River is open for clamming as of October 15. The upper Mill River stays closed for high bacteria. And a Liberty ship. Hold that. 144 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:33.000 One thing we learned. Ana Lucia. 145 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:53.000 So. At low tide off Rockport, on the ledges called Flat Ground, a piece of machinery breaks the surface. It's the steam engine of the Charles S. Haight. A Liberty ship, one of more than 2,700 the United States built to carry cargo in the war. Built in Georgia in October 1944. 146 00:19:53.000 --> 00:20:12.000 By spring 1946 the war was over. It had carried coal to Newport in England and was coming home to New York empty. Southeast wind, poor visibility, rough seas. It hit the ledges at 12:07 in the morning on April 2, 1946, and never left. 147 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.000 Where's that from? 148 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:21.000 Federal maritime records and the state's underwater archaeology board. I've kayaked past that spot and never knew. 149 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:37.000 Mine is the 20 dollars. The top fine for breaking the zoning rules in Essex is 20 dollars a day. The building inspector said it hasn't changed in all his years there, and a board member said it's more like a fee than a fine. If voters say yes, it's 200. 150 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:39.000 Twenty dollars. 151 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:43.000 A rule can sit there for decades with a number nobody looks at. 152 00:20:43.000 --> 00:21:01.000 Mine is a process thing from Manchester. Once the warrant is posted, the words can't change. So when the Finance Committee votes no, that no gets printed in the book next to the article. But the motion made on the floor of town meeting can be worded tighter than the article. The town administrator will ask legal counsel how tight. 153 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.000 So the article is the ceiling. 154 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:12.000 The article is the ceiling. The motion can come down under it. All right. Know Before It's Decided. 155 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:30.000 This is the part where we tell you what gets decided this week, before it's decided. Monday, October 26. The Gloucester Licensing Board, 6:30, hybrid on Zoom. The city's last annual all alcohol license, two restaurants asking, Mehfil on Washington Street and Rocky Neck Lobster Company II on East Main Street. 156 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:31.000 Tuesday. 157 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:45.000 Tuesday, October 27. The Gloucester City Council, 6:30. The public hearing and the vote on the tax split. This is the one where you can speak. And Manchester's senior center forum and open house at the Masonic Hall, 6:30. 158 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:46.000 Wednesday. 159 00:21:46.000 --> 00:22:08.000 Wednesday, October 28. Manchester Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 p.m., four hearings, including the Essex County Club's request for a restroom building on the golf course. Thursday, October 29, the Gloucester Zoning Board of Appeals holds a full hearing on the Maplewood Avenue housing project, where the stormwater tanks went in about 4 feet too high. 160 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:09.000 And after that? 161 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:27.000 Monday, November 2, Essex selectmen, 6 p.m., with time for questions about the warrant. Wednesday, November 4, the last Essex school community meeting, 6 at the school, and the Gloucester Conservation Commission at 5:30 with the Wingaersheek dune and Kondelin Road back. 162 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:28.000 And then. 163 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:38.000 November 9, the Manchester sign bylaw hearing. November 16, both town meetings. December 10, the ballots. 164 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:40.000 How do people take part? 165 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:56.000 Go. Every one of these is public. Watch, because the towns post video and we link it. Write, because boards take written comment and the agenda says where. And the Meeting Finder on the site has them all by town. Tuesday in Gloucester is the one with the microphone open. 166 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:59.000 The week ahead. Mateo Daniel. 167 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:21.000 Today, Gloucester competitive cheer has an event at noon. The MIAA doesn't say where, so check with the school. Monday, Saugus at Gloucester boys soccer, Newell, 4:30. Triton at Gloucester volleyball, 5:45. Gloucester at Saugus girls soccer, 6:30. Triton at Manchester Essex field hockey, 7. 168 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:37.000 Tuesday, Rockport girls soccer hosts Essex Tech at 4, Gloucester field hockey hosts St. Mary's at 4:30, Manchester Essex girls soccer hosts Triton at 6:30. Saturday, Gloucester football at Beverly, 11 a.m. Times from the MIAA and the school calendars. Check before you go. 169 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:58.000 Weather. Today is sunny and near 57, the warmest day in a week. Monday near 64. Then the north wind comes back Monday night, 15 to 20 knots on the water. No advisories on the bays as of yesterday morning. And Cape Ann Symphony musicians play a string program at Crowell Chapel in Manchester at 3 this afternoon. 170 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:16.000 Voting. Early voting runs through Friday, October 30. Rockport is open today, 8 to 2. Gloucester, Monday through Thursday 8:30 to 4, Thursday until 6:30, Friday 8:30 to 12:30. Rockport's weekday hours and the Essex and Manchester hours are on your town clerk's page and in our write-up. 171 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:33.000 Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, polls 7 to 8. The ballot is two cards. Campaign shirts, stickers and signs stay 150 feet from the polls. The voter guide is on the site, with the three state rep candidates side by side and every ballot question. 172 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:43.000 Halloween. Saturday the 31st in Manchester. Party at Memorial School, 5 to 6:30, trick or treat in the village 5:30 to 7:30. 173 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:52.000 And next Sunday the clocks fall back. The Dunkin' poll on the site closes that night at 11:59. It is not scientific, and the results show right away. 174 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:57.000 And November 15. Traps off St. Peter's Landing. Owen says so. 175 00:24:57.000 --> 00:25:00.000 That's the week. Ana Lucia, how's the bread? 176 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.000 Avó says I knead like I'm angry at it. She says the bread can tell. 177 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:05.000 Can it? 178 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:09.000 I'm not going to argue with an 84 year old woman about bread. 179 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:13.000 Mateo Daniel, the Revolution. One line. 180 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:30.000 Okay so. They clinched a playoff spot on the 14th with a 3 to 2 win at Cincinnati. Last Saturday they beat Chicago one to nothing at Gillette, Matt Polster scored. They played at Philadelphia last night, and we recorded this before kickoff, so no score from me. Playoffs start November 18. The scarf stays out. 181 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:31.000 And Mami? 182 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:37.000 One o'clock. She'll ask if I ate. I ran three miles this week. I earned a breakfast sandwich. 183 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:55.000 And I have one week left in a cold house, by choice. Everything we talked about today comes from public records and government data. The meeting videos, the agendas, the posted warrants, the assessors' packet, the state's crash records and fuel survey, the MIAA. 184 00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:08.000 The sources are on the website at capeanncurrent.com, with every write-up we mentioned. If we missed something, or got something wrong, send it to news@capeanncurrent.com. And if you have a question for next Sunday, send that too. 185 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:09.000 Let's go. 186 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:11.000 See you next week. 187 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:19.000 I'm Kerry Jane, with Ana Lucia and Mateo Daniel. This has been The Weekly Current. Keeping Cape Ann current.