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This is the last week to purchase a Pigeon Cove Circle Calendar. They are only $10.00 each and you could be a lucky winner. You can win up to $2500.

The drawing is January 8th at the Pigeon Cove Circle with a complimentary Chili dinner. The proceeds of this event go to the building fund. Please support us. You can Venmo me if you wish. Also, you can pay by check or cash. Thank you!

Judith Harris

Gloucester Fire Department Directs Community Members with Emergencies to Only Call 911

GLOUCESTER — Fire Chief Eric Smith is asking community members to call 911 in the event of an emergency and no longer use direct phone lines to reach the Gloucester Fire Department.

Chief Smith and the Gloucester Fire Department direct anyone reporting an emergency situation or fire to call 911. This is now the only number for requesting assistance and reporting emergencies.

“Everyone must dial 911 in the event of any emergency,” said Chief Smith. “Our 911 lines continue to fully function. 911 is the only number used in Gloucester for requesting assistance, reporting fires and calling in other emergencies.”

For any Gloucester businesses or city residents that has a monitored fire alarm system or a monitored medical alert system, please check with your alarm monitoring company to determine what number it uses to report emergencies in the City of Gloucester. If that number used by your alarm monitoring company ends with “2424,” then you and/or your alarm monitoring company must contact the Gloucester Fire Department to receive the new alarm reporting number. In order to make this change, please call the Gloucester Fire Department’s non-emergency business line at 978-325-5300 and select the option to speak to a fire officer.

Author Talk at Sawyer Free: Thursday, Jan 9th

 ~ SAWYER FREE LIBRARY ~ 

Please join the Sawyer Free Library on Thursday, January 9 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm for an Author Talk with Diane C. Bradley.  The Boston-based author Diane C. Bradley will discuss The Summer Before, her gripping novel about trauma, guilt, and the resilience of friendship which explores the shattering impact of abuse and healing journey that follows. 

All are invited, no registration required. The discussion will take place at the Sawyer Free Libraryat 21 Main Street in Gloucester. If you have questions, please contact: lsvensson@sawyerfreelibrary.orgor 978-325-5500.

About The Summer Before:

If the perpetrator is also someone you love, there are no words. 

Madeline and Summer are more than best friends. They might as well be sisters; they’ve claimed the title, anyway-and sisters tell each other everything. But Summer has a secret she’s been hiding for years. Someone’s been hurting her, someone close, and when it comes out, it destroys everything around her with the force of dying stars.

Six years after the trial, Madeline is a haunted young woman trying to build a new life in Boston, but the guilt of her betrayal brings her to the brink of suicide. To let go of the past, Madeline must confront her father, mother, and all those involved with the trial that split her family apart-or continue her descent, finishing what she started to escape it.

About the Author:

A raw, gritty New Englander, Dianne C. Bradley, is a registered nurse and freelance writer. Dianne and her family, both human, furry, and feathered, are firmly planted in a small town north of Boston, not far enough away to lose her city edge. After falling in love with Martha’s Vineyard on a weekend visit as a girl, she returns every summer, reigniting her passion for writing in the magical place that inspired it.

Fire In The Sky

I took this at White Beach in Manchester last evening.

Thought you might like to share this with your readers.

Ruth Goutal

17 Desmond Ave

Manchester

Ruth Goutal Photo

Celebrating a great 2024 at the Gloucester Education Foundation!

 ~ gloucestereducationfoundation ~ 

As 2024 winds down, the Gloucester Education Foundation is celebrating a banner year of community support and dynamic programming benefitting the 2,862 students of the Gloucester Public Schools. We distributed over $500,000 in grants to support 24 different programs in GPS this year! Thank you to everyone – students, educators, administrators, volunteers, board members, families, and especially our generous donors – for your work to strengthen teaching and learning in our local schools. Here’s to a great 2025!

Ring in the New Year with a Laugh!

 ~ coliecatherine ~ 

Join us for a Bad Xmas Gift Yankee Swap at the American Legion Post 3 on December 31st @ 6PM!

Unleash those unwanted Xmas gifts! Bring a wrapped, unwanted, funny, or slightly embarrassing gift to participate in the Yankee Swap.

Details:

  • Time: 6:00 PM
  • Food: Delicious Chinese Food Buffet (included!)
  • Swap: Bring a wrapped gift to join the fun!
  • Lounge: Open until 10:00 PM

Let’s swap those bad gifts for something (hopefully) better and celebrate New Year’s Eve together!

Gloucester Little League is selling Super Bowl squares. Each square is $25. Half of the proceeds are prize money and half goes to GLL.

Venmo @gll01930 with your full name, number of desired squares and your cell number to partake.

A Question from karen Fuhrman RE: Colored lights on Gloucester City Hall clock tower

Colored lights on Gloucester City Hall clock tower

Hi Joey,

Can you do an update on this post, or new version of it? Do the lights on top of Gloucester City Hall tower serve as a weather beacon? Or something else? Either way, what do the colors indicate?

Who decides, and do they post that info somewhere? I saw purple the other night.

Thank you!

Karen F.

What do the colored lights on Gloucester City Hall clock tower mean