The Manchester Club met last Thursday at the Legion Hall for its March meeting. Todd Crane and his kitchen crew served up a delicious garden salad, chicken parmesan dinner with ziti and green beans and Klondike bars for dessert and then it was on to the business part of the meeting.
WHAT TO DO WITH BREAD AND VEGGIE BAGS?Earth Day is coming up next month. The Manchester Sustainability Committee is offering regular everyday tips we all can do to show a little love to Mother Earth. This week’s tip is ….
At this year’s Annual Town Meeting, scheduled for Monday, April 3, 6:30 p.m., at the Memorial Elementary School, nine of the twenty articles are proposing changes to accept a new local option provided by state law, adopt, or change a general bylaw or amend our zoning regulations.
Every Monday (except public holidays), between 10 a.m. and 12 noon, Manchester seniors have been getting together at the “Chapel” (behind the Santander Bank) for Coffee and Connections.
Maggie Tomaiolo’s 5th Grade student ambassadors at Manchester Memorial School were sorting hundreds of articles of clothing on Monday that will be donated to Cradles for Crayons.
Massachusetts Lt. Governor and former Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll was the featured speaker Wednesday morning at the Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Economic Outlook Breakfast. Driscoll addressed new initiatives in Governor Maura Healy’s proposed $50 billion state budget addressing educati…
About 70 residents attended a public hearing Monday where Manchester’s Planning Board (PB) approved final language on four articles for April’s Annual Town Meeting to change the town bylaw to create the town’s first senior housing bylaw, regulate “adult entertainment,” update the accessory d…
On Thursday, a fundraiser was held by the ME Regional Middle High School gym. The event was to raise money to support the Doyon family of Essex that suffered a total loss in a house fire on the 6th of February. The successful fundraiser collected over $2,000. (Photo Paul Clark)
In this week's Town Hall Notebook we tune in to Town of Manchester budgeting, Essex zoning, the state's housing district mandate for commuter rail towns, the Fire Dept's challenges with the FinCom, and Cell Signaliing's request for a MassWorks grant application to connect Manchester's Limite…
Officials from Cell Signaling Technology (CST) appeared before the Planning Board Monday to share preliminary plans to build a new research campus in the old rock quarry off Atwater Avenue. It would be a “campus for the future,” they said, that would heal a blighted property and use the lat…
With just a handful of games left in the regular season, a team that has already enjoyed a special season so far has the opportunity to add to its list of impressive accomplishments.
Some big items this week, with the ME Regional School District Committee approving a final FY24 district budget to present to voters and the Manchester Select Board agreeing with a recommendation by the Manchester Affordable Housing Trust to pull a key property from a joint plan with the Man…
Saturday unseasonably mild morning was a good time for a three-hour tour as members of the Manchester Conservation Commission walked wetlands along Atwater Avenue owned by Cell Signaling, the biotechnology company that last year acquired just under 50 acres off upper School Street in the Lim…
Construction has begun on a new composting facility at the town’s former landfill site off Pine Street. Andrew Brousseau, a partner in Black Earth Compost, now operating off School Street, not far from the Manchester Athletic Club, says the new facility should be completed by October enablin…
The forecast for Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3-4, calls for extreme cold in Essex with wind chills below zero by mid-afternoon Friday, and wind chills as low as minus 20 degrees overnight into Saturday morning. Essex Chief of Police Paul Francis and the Essex Police Department are warning loc…
On Cape Ann, where there is a need, the community always seems to respond. That is the message received by numerous non-profits located in the area from those who live in it. In an age where inflation and COVID pose barriers on a daily basis to accomplishing traditional goals and benchmarks…
In this week's Town Hall Notebook, the Manchester Essex Regional School District Committee held a public hearing with town boards to discuss the draft FY2024 in its last meeting before a final vote February 6, and the Manchester Affordable Housing Trust expands its successful mortgage and re…
The Manchester Club kicked off its 118th year last Thursday night at the Legion Hall. Todd Crane and his kitchen crew served a delicious meal of a garden salad, Virgilio’s rolls, Baked Stuff Shrimp with rice and cookies and ice cream for dessert. At the conclusion of dinner, outgoing club …
The membership of Masconomo Council 1232 Knights of Columbus Manchester-by-the-Sea annually votes to honor two brother knights for their service to the Council, their fidelity to the organization’s foremost founding principle of charity, and the support of their faith community.
Last week at ME Regional Middle School, Ross Cowman’s 6th Grade Science class got a hands-on robotics lesson, thanks to parent Dan Ochs who brought in an operational robotic arm operated simply with the “driver” moving their hand and arm to pick up a rope. Here, Katie Jay celebrates success…
The teams at Greenscapes, an environmental education group based in Salem, MA, made a visit to Manchester Memorial School last week to give students a hands-on education about the protection and conservation of local natural resources.
Author Allegra Goodman signs copies of her latest novel Sam at The Book Shop of Beverly Farms on Tuesday evening. The event was lively and well attended. A delightful Goodman read from her novel, a story of girlhood set in Beverly, and answered questions before mingling and signing copies o…
The challenge of navigating the state’s mandate for encouraging housing density in towns served by the MBTA has begun in Manchester and the other three Cape Ann municipalities impacted by the new law. And at a joint meeting Monday, the Planning Board and Select Board approved the first mand…
Last month the Manchester Public Library held an event entitled a “Celebration and Stories: Ron Borel and the Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library.” It was a commemoration of former resident and patron Ron Borel. And Ron Borel has given an amazing gift to our library to benefit the people…
There’s a lot set to happen with the Council on Aging (COA) in the coming weeks. Check them out here, and for further information on any of these great trips or to reserve your seat on the van, please call 978-526-7500.
Same time this year! Keeping with the decades long tradition of plucking up your courage and bravely jumping into the icy waters of Singing Beach, local residents participated in the annual Polar Plunge on an unseasonably warm New Years Day.
The holiday gave boards in Manchester and Essex a bit of a slowdown before opening 2023 and tackling big issues like budgets, schools, capital initiatives and zoning. But just before the break, at a heated December meeting of the Manchester Select Board, Alexander Westerhoff of 3 Colburn Ro…
There’s a lot set to happen with the Council on Aging (COA) in the coming weeks. Check them out here, and for further information on any of these great trips or to reserve your seat on the van, please call 978-526-7500.
If this is how the 2022-23 winter season is going to go for the Manchester Essex indoor track teams, then this promises to be a memorable season for both Hornets squads. Members of the boys’ team set school records and the girls’ team saw some personal bests in the season-opening Winter Fes…
This time of year, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is a familiar musical program during the holiday season. And on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m. under the musical direction of Dr. Herman Weiss, the First Parish Congregational Church in Manchester will lead an ambitious cooperative “sing-along”…
The community festivities this past weekend held on despite tough weather, with plenty of locals getting out to celebrate. In Manchester by the Sea, the Lighting of the Friendship Tree, the Manchester Historical Museum decorations and Holiday Stroll, and Santa taking requests at the Masonic Lodge!
The ME Hornets met their annual rivals, the Georgetown Royals, on Thanksgiving Day. After a slow first half the Hornets turned up the heat and left the field 30-0 winners. It was ME’s fifth win in a row in the Thanksgiving Day Classic. The Hornets take home the Fran York/Eric DiMaio Troph…
7:09 a.m. Story St., directed patrol, secured/checked.
10:46 a.m. Martin St., motor vehicle stop, citation issued.
6:35 p.m. John Wise Ave., motor vehicle stop, verbal warning.
7:30 p.m. Eastern Ave., suspicious activity, spoken to.
We gather for worship each Sunday at 10 a.m. and welcome you to join us for a time of studying the scriptures and praising the Lord. Other ministry updates and details can be found on our website, www.CornerstoneNorthShore.org. If you have any special needs or concerns, please let us know! We’re here to serve!
Report covers from February 25, 2023, to March 10, 2023
The TA attended the subject meeting to represent the Town on March 10, 2023. The meeting was held in the Essex Town Hall auditorium and officials from each of the five communities represented in the Chamber provided local updates. The group had a chance to discuss questions of common interest and both Senator Tarr and Representative Ferrante were on hand to provide the Commonwealth’s perspective.
To kick off a second year as its Artist-in-Residence, violinist Scott Moore presents the first of two spring recitals at the Annisquam Village Church, Sunday April 2 at 3 p.m. Joining forces with pianist Tianhong Yang, Moore presents “Mirror in Mirror,” a program exploring the range of sonorities for violin and piano—from fiery and virtuosic, to deeply tender and profound.
This is the second of two articles offering background on Manchester’s town meeting. The Annual Town Meeting will take place this year on Monday, April 3 at 6:30 p.m. at Manchester Memorial School in the gymnasium. The first installment, which appeared in last week’s Cricket, described the function of town meeting and the roles of the Select Board and Finance Committee in preparing for it. This one focuses on how town meeting works.
Montserrat College of Art and Congressman Seth Moulton are proud to announce the winners for this year’s Sixth District Congressional High School Art Competition and Show.
Tom Pallazola and Mike Story confirm victory for their “Little League Jackets” squad Saturday with plenty of local witnesses in what many are calling the most coveted trophy on Cape Ann, the ME Gridiron Club’s 2023 Bowling Tournament that raises money annually for youth athletic programs.
Please take notice that a Pre-Town Meeting will take place at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 1, 2023 to discuss the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting scheduled for April 3.
On Monday, Lorraine Hardy-Wyatt, 97, was honored as the town’s eldest resident by Essex Board of Selectmen and State Sen. Bruce Tarr who presented her with the coveted Boston Post Cane, the ferruled, 18-ct gold-tipped walking stick made of mahogany that’s been a tradition since 1909. The ce…
At this year’s Annual Town Meeting, scheduled for Monday, April 3, 6:30 p.m., at the Memorial Elementary School, nine of the twenty articles are proposing changes to accept a new local option provided by state law, adopt, or change a general bylaw or amend our zoning regulations.
Select Board Meeting: The next Select Board meeting will be held on Monday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. Meeting details can be found on the Town website.
We gather for worship each Sunday at 10 a.m. and welcome you to join us for a time of studying the scriptures and praising the Lord. Other ministry updates and details can be found on our website, www.CornerstoneNorthShore.org. If you have any special needs or concerns, please let us know! We’re here to serve!
Manchester’s Annual Town Meeting will take place this year on Monday, April 3 at 6:30 p.m. at Manchester Memorial School in the gymnasium. Every year, hundreds of Manchester residents make time to attend town meeting, but many do not. This guide by Town Moderator Alan Wilson provides a brief explanation of what town meeting does and how it functions.
Report covers from February 25, 2023 to March 10, 2023
As the Board may recall, we recently migrated all our virtual servers from the server room in Essex to the datacenter infrastructure in the Town of Danvers. Danvers also keeps a secondary live instance of our server infrastructure in a separate location and can stay connected with Essex over the Internet should our direct, fiber-optic link go down. Now that it is evident that the migration has been completely successful, the Town Administrator (TA) has removed the host server (which had reached end of life) from the Essex server room and it is being stored for the time-being. Eventually, the hard drives will be removed and destroyed, and the server will be recycled.
The Gloucester Stage Company this week announced it has a new artistic director, Rebecca Bradshaw. The move was announced after an extensive nationwide search process. Rebecca takes over the role from the award-winning actress and director Paula Plum, who had been serving as the theater's interim artistic director since Robert Walsh stepped down following the 2021 season.
9 a.m. for Wee Ones, ages 0-2 with a caregiver
10 a.m. Preschool, ages 3-5 with a caregiver
Stories, fun, storyboards, songs, and rhymes! Register at www.essexpl.org
Every Monday (except public holidays), between 10 a.m. and 12 noon, Manchester seniors have been getting together at the “Chapel” (behind the Santander Bank) for Coffee and Connections.
9:00 a.m. Central St., walk-in, question about flag, completed.
1:52 p.m. Central St., flower purchase fraud, referred to Westford PD.
5:30 p.m. Summer St., fire, burning smell, burnt food.
8:27 p.m. Rte. 128 SB, deceased racoon on ramp, MDOT notified.
Maggie Tomaiolo’s 5th Grade student ambassadors at Manchester Memorial School were sorting hundreds of articles of clothing on Monday that will be donated to Cradles for Crayons.
Last Friday Essex Superior Court Judge Thomas Drechsler of Salem spent a morning with about 25 middle schoolers at the Brookwood School in Manchester, making the law personal for students who may not have any idea about the law and how it works.
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