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Library offers latest in audiobook technology
Director Hope Coffman said the library began to circulate Playaways - portable audio devices similar to MP3 players that contain an entire book - last week.
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Earl's path seen passing Cape Ann tonight
Mary Muckenhoupt/ Gloucester Daily Times Jonathan Kabak, captain of the Summerwind, doubles up on dock lines and adds chafe gear as he prepares the schooner for whatever Hurricane Earl has in store, behind the Maritime Heritage Center Thursday afternoon.
Hurricane Earl edged closer to the New England coast Thursday, already triggering cancellation of several traditional Labor Day weekend events in Gloucester and Cape Ann, and dimming the prospects for a lucrative final weekend of the summer tourist season.
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Tribe fishing off fishermen-leased boats
At least 20 commercial fishing and scalloping boats owned or leased and crewed by members of the northern Maine-based Passamquoddy Tribe have been working the heavily regulated Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank this summer with tribal, but no federal permits, a tribal fisherman and broker said Thursday.
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City's DPW Chief Hale gets 20-percent raise
The city has approved a 20-percent pay raise for Public Works Director Michael Hale, boosting the job's salary from the current $96,374 maximum to $116,252.
Continued ... - Bank site projects top Rockport meeting warrant
- Tens are wild for doctor's fund-raiser
- North Shore college ranks expected to swell
- Gloucester Police/Fire: Woman faces drug charges over Klonopin
- Rockport Police/Fire: Driver cited after Nugent Stretch crash
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- Fireworks, boat parade canceled due to hurricane forecast
- Wednesday, September 1, 2010
- AGH cuts: 7 jobs, 2 programs
- Cape Ann gears up for potential Earl visit
- Schooners races, concert may be competing with Earl
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