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Longtime Manchester residents Mary and Larry Kirby celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary this past Sunday, April 11. When the Kirbys married in 1946, gasoline was 21 cents a gallon and Bing Crosby’s “Swinging On A Star” topped the music charts.
It’s part of a natural cycle that’s been recurring for thousands of years. Every April, the alewives return from the open ocean, enter the Essex River Estuary, and follow their sense of smell up Alewife Brook to Chebacco Lake—the place of their birth—to spawn.
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.
This week the Board of Directors of the Cape Ann Community Foundation (CACF) opened for proposals for the Foundation’s fifth annual round of grants.
This week's news from the Board of Selectmen.
Find out what is new from the Manchester library this week.
The LIP (Local Initiative Project) negotiations between the Board of Selectmen and SLV, the applicant for an apartment complex at Shingle Hill, have ended without an agreement. At the Board’s public negotiation session on Tuesday, April 6, Mr. Engler of SLV concluded that it was no longer i…
40B Public Meeting: The next 40B negotiation meeting hosted by the Board of Selectmen is currently scheduled for Tuesday, April 6. Please see the Town website for meeting details and past recordings.
There is a lot going on at the library this week, stop by!
Manchester Police Chief Todd Fitzgerald says since the onset of COVID, his department has been receiving a steady stream of scam reports. This week, after two Manchester residents lost $15,000 and $50,000 to lottery scammers, he decided to push out a fresh public warning to residents.
Last month Manchester and Essex successfully secured state-funded technical support from the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development under a program designed to help towns get back to business.
Our Annual Town Meeting, where voters will decide on next year’s municipal budgets, has been delayed until June 21. None-the-less, we are seeing an uptick in discussions about town finances. There are certainly many aspects of a town’s budget. In the end it is the choices voters make that…
Manchester Essex Rotary Club 2nd Annual "Run for the Roses" Raffle $7,500 first prize only 300 tickets get yours now! Buy your ticket today and support our local community!
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.
This is the first of a series of articles in the Cricket addressing adjustments currently being considered by the Planning Board as part of the zoning “recodification” process. Voters will be asked to consider these changes at a special Town Meeting in the Fall.
With all the attention development proposals and options for new zoning are receiving, there has been renewed interest in the status of the Town’s drinking water and sewer systems. These utilities are often taken for granted but they are critical parts of our infrastructure that provide ess…
40B Public Meeting: The next 40B negotiation meeting hosted by the Board of Selectmen is currently scheduled for Tuesday, April 6. Please see the Town website for meeting details and past recordings.
It will soon be April, and this new edition of The Waterline is all about gearing up for the start of the boating season. There’s a lot to report from the Harbormaster’s office in Manchester
On Tuesday the 23rd the Manchester Memorial Elementary School welcomed back grades K-5 to full time, in person classes. As this reporter noticed and after talking to several parents and students, it was clear that all parties were relieved to return to some semblance of normalcy. One parent …
Catch up with the Manchester library this week.
Police officers and firemen from three area towns and Massachusetts State Police air responders were called to a rescue two off-trail hikers who became stuck in a swamp in the Manchester Essex woods Tuesday. The afternoon rescue took several hours of coordination between state and local saf…
We are Ava Ricci and Sophie Zalosh, sophomores at Manchester Essex Regional high school. This year, we felt that helping kids less fortunate than us was more important than ever. This thought led us to start a fundraising club for children and teenagers in the foster care system through Com…
It seemed like all of Beverly Farms had spilled out into the streets and headed to the MBTA Commuter Rail Station that had been transformed into a 1980s era Westport, Connecticut train station. It was the set of the new George Clooney-directed feature film, The Tender Bar, based on the awar…
Last week at the local meeting of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, a fundamental shift signaled a solution to one of Manchester’s most dogged parking challenges: creating a path from the public parking lot behind Town Hall to the heart of Manchester’s downtown shopping district.
The Manchester Housing Authority (MHA) and the Manchester Affordable Housing Trust (MAHT) have been working together on a plan to improve the existing 84 public housing units at Newport Park, The Plains and Loading Place Road, that have served the town well for over 50 years. As part of the…
Chief Todd Fitzgerald announced this week that his department has produced a video introduction to detail the Manchester-by-the-Sea Police Department and its role in the community.
July 4 Parade Rescheduled: Due to COVID restrictions, the parade on July 4 will be rescheduled to September 25. The new date will celebrate Manchester’s 375th Anniversary. More details to come!
Last week’s tease of warm weather sparked our anticipation of the many summer time activities that abound here on our stretch of beautiful coastline. With any luck, as more and more people are vaccinated against COVID, this coming summer will start to feel more normal. We are not yet at th…
Rotarians volunteered their services to pack and distribute food to 160 households as part of a District Grant. Families received produce, dry goods, fish, meat, specialty items like olive oil, coffee and baking mixes. It was a fabulous spring day to be outside. Manchester-Essex Rotary Club…
This week's news from the Board of Selectmen.
Find out what is new from the Manchester library this week.
The LIP (Local Initiative Project) negotiations between the Board of Selectmen and SLV, the applicant for an apartment complex at Shingle Hill, have ended without an agreement. At the Board’s public negotiation session on Tuesday, April 6, Mr. Engler of SLV concluded that it was no longer in his best interest to continue the negotiations.
40B Public Meeting: The next 40B negotiation meeting hosted by the Board of Selectmen is currently scheduled for Tuesday, April 6. Please see the Town website for meeting details and past recordings.
There is a lot going on at the library this week, stop by!
Manchester Police Chief Todd Fitzgerald says since the onset of COVID, his department has been receiving a steady stream of scam reports. This week, after two Manchester residents lost $15,000 and $50,000 to lottery scammers, he decided to push out a fresh public warning to residents.
Last month Manchester and Essex successfully secured state-funded technical support from the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development under a program designed to help towns get back to business.
Our Annual Town Meeting, where voters will decide on next year’s municipal budgets, has been delayed until June 21. None-the-less, we are seeing an uptick in discussions about town finances. There are certainly many aspects of a town’s budget. In the end it is the choices voters make that determine how much in taxes is collected and what services these dollars provide.
Manchester Essex Rotary Club 2nd Annual "Run for the Roses" Raffle $7,500 first prize only 300 tickets get yours now! Buy your ticket today and support our local community!
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.
This is the first of a series of articles in the Cricket addressing adjustments currently being considered by the Planning Board as part of the zoning “recodification” process. Voters will be asked to consider these changes at a special Town Meeting in the Fall.
With all the attention development proposals and options for new zoning are receiving, there has been renewed interest in the status of the Town’s drinking water and sewer systems. These utilities are often taken for granted but they are critical parts of our infrastructure that provide essential services to residents.
40B Public Meeting: The next 40B negotiation meeting hosted by the Board of Selectmen is currently scheduled for Tuesday, April 6. Please see the Town website for meeting details and past recordings.
It will soon be April, and this new edition of The Waterline is all about gearing up for the start of the boating season. There’s a lot to report from the Harbormaster’s office in Manchester
On Tuesday the 23rd the Manchester Memorial Elementary School welcomed back grades K-5 to full time, in person classes. As this reporter noticed and after talking to several parents and students, it was clear that all parties were relieved to return to some semblance of normalcy. One parent …
Catch up with the Manchester library this week.
Police officers and firemen from three area towns and Massachusetts State Police air responders were called to a rescue two off-trail hikers who became stuck in a swamp in the Manchester Essex woods Tuesday. The afternoon rescue took several hours of coordination between state and local safety officers and involved drones, helicopters and all-terrain vehicle before the couple emerged on their own with the help of two Manchester and Essex police officers.
We are Ava Ricci and Sophie Zalosh, sophomores at Manchester Essex Regional high school. This year, we felt that helping kids less fortunate than us was more important than ever. This thought led us to start a fundraising club for children and teenagers in the foster care system through Comfort Cases, a nationwide organization.
It seemed like all of Beverly Farms had spilled out into the streets and headed to the MBTA Commuter Rail Station that had been transformed into a 1980s era Westport, Connecticut train station. It was the set of the new George Clooney-directed feature film, The Tender Bar, based on the award-winning memoir of the same name by J.R. Moehringer.
Last week at the local meeting of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, a fundamental shift signaled a solution to one of Manchester’s most dogged parking challenges: creating a path from the public parking lot behind Town Hall to the heart of Manchester’s downtown shopping district.
