Seven months into a formal exploration of shared services opportunities between Manchester and Essex by a professional consultant, the Boards of Selectmen for Essex and Manchester came together for a joint meeting on Monday night to preview t…
The number of staff in Town Hall has been virtually unchanged for decades. However, during this same ten year period the demands and public expectations have grown. Th…
Manchester-by-the-Sea Board of Selectmen Weekly Update
Essex Board of Selectmen’s Meeting of August 12, 2019. Report covers from July 27, 2019 to August 9, 2019.
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At 7:30 a.m. last week, Kris McGinn Straub and this editor met up with Susannah Winder and Christopher Stepler of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s boat launch and boarded an old-style oyster tonging boat as the pair took a dry run to the museum’s upcoming Great Rowing Adventure, an overnight trip it has planned with Lowell’s Shop. Ted Watkinson of the museum grabbed us at the Greenheads Gone party in Essex several weeks ago and told us of this planned museum overnight, hatched by Winder and some colleagues at Lowell’s Boat Shop. The morning was a stunner.
When the artist Winslow Homer came to paint on Cape Ann in 1869, he arrived a busy commercial illustrator for popular magazines of the time. Over the next elven years, spending significant time in coastal areas across the northeast, including Gloucester and Manchester, Homer left a fine artist whose paintings captured evocative moments of coastal life, particularly in Gloucester and in Manchester. This was a theme in last weekend’s truly thought-provoking lecture by Elizabeth L. Block, PhD, senior editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, “Winslow Homer and Women’s Bathing Practices,” which was jointly presented by the Cape Ann Museum and Historic New England at Coolidge Point: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial.
In late July, and much to the excitement of locals, Dede and Bruce Warren purchased the down…
Nationally acclaimed Native American Flautist Jonah Littlesunday has been performing for in …
The Manchester Historical Museum invites you to a wonderful and novel evening of fun on Satu…
A letter to the Editor from Gifford West of Beverly Farms.
Letter to the Editor from George P. Smith, Manchester. The second of a two part comment on Global Warming.
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