http://www.gloucestertimes.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:45:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_200223550.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_200223550.html There's a brand new addition to your edition of the Times this morning. It's the new TV Spotlight magazine and mdash; a 16-page magazine that outlines the schedule for the TV shows you'll get on the Comcast or satellite channels available across Cape Ann, and it offers a variety of other features, too. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:15:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_200224001.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_200224001.html Much attention has been paid in Gloucester recently to the issue of families. The national, regional and local spotlight has focused on who is starting families, what kind of supports are available to kids in families and how we as a community can address the "issues" we see in families. Missing from the conversation seems to be the great deal of support for families already in existence. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_200224159.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_200224159.html Much attention has been paid in Gloucester recently to the issue of families. The national, regional and local spotlight has focused on who is starting families, what kind of supports are available to kids in families and how we as a community can address the "issues" we see in families. Missing from the conversation seems to be the great deal of support for families already in existence. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:20:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230238.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230238.html The airwaves these days are full of get-rich-quick schemes: Lottery games that will turn you into an instant millionaire, lawyers who will get you money on the flimsiest of pretexts, and Internet sales schemes that will deliver triple your current income with no money down, no product, no effort. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:20:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230257.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230257.html If there is a way and mdash; any way and mdash; for Gloucester officials to slow the city's skyrocketing water and sewer rates, they should embrace it. And there is, according to some city councilors and mdash; simply by getting more people to pay their bills. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:09:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230216.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230216.html Just like an egg, a human being and mdash; or even an entire society and mdash; finally, as has so often been said, either hatches or rots. We can argue all we want over whether life has gotten better or worse over the decades that have come and gone since members of the Greatest Generation returned from the battlefields of Europe and Asia 63 years ago. The fact is, the challenges we face as a nation today are challenges that will require a unified effort on the part of each and every member of society if ever they are to be successfully met. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:09:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230151.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230151.html To the editor: Thank you, Jim Munn (My View, the Times, Monday, July 14) for writing your piece on civic pride and judgement. I saw the ridiculous Beverly Farms floats on YouTube and thought to myself "those poor kids" and mdash; and I wasn't talking about the pregnant Gloucester girls. Thanks to YouTube, the crass and low brow "humor" of those paraders has been captured now, forever. Their ridiculous demeanor will be in the public record, for good. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:09:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230203.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230203.html The Cape Ann Social Club, has been in operation for 27 years, and is with the Health And Education Services. It is a vital saving grace, to this area, and community, and works with adults who have emotional challenges. This is a safe loving place, where people can come, meet new friends, have more meaning, comfort, and structure in their lives, and find acceptance. Statistics show, that one in five adults have emotional challenges and mdash; and many do not always have family, proper support systems, or places to go, and meet people, make friends, and feel acceptance. The Social Club is a place where the pain of loneliness, and stresses of life can be buffered, by support, comfort, and understanding. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:09:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230140.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_198230140.html To the editor: I grew up in Gloucester, and went to Gloucester schools and mdash; and although I now reside in Salisbury, I visit Gloucester weekly, still. The one thing I know about Gloucester is that, for the most, her citizens are good, very decent people, brought up with strong values, passed down from generations of good decent people. So now this fine city has a small problem come up, gets more bad media press than a little town deserves and mdash; and everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon of hate mongers. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:04:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197230409.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197230409.html I must confess to loving an ordinary day, a day when I wake early enough to enjoy a few hours of quiet solitude. Perhaps it's a June morning when there are spectacular cloud formations stretched across the sky above the Annisquam River when I wander out onto my rooftop deck with a mug of coffee to sit and listen to the birds. No humidity in the air would be good, too, and life's drudgery held back from view as if by a great sun visor. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:58:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197225844.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197225844.html The mayors of Beverly, Gloucester and Salem have all agreed that the floats in horribles parades in Beverly Farms and the Salem Willows that mocked the teen pregnancy spike at Gloucester High School this year were "unacceptable." Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:58:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197225810.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197225810.html Many times over the years I've met with people who come to me for spiritual direction, I've listened to a similar story. A directee has experienced a crisis moment of one sort or another. Sorting it out, the person has wrestled with getting stuck in the shame and blame position or in deciding to use the experience to deepen and grow. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:57:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197225745.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197225745.html To the editor: Well, we just had our nation's Fourth of July annual celebration of our independence from tyranny and government control, and this year, to me, it just didn't feel the same. It's tough to feel so independent when there is such a high level of federal, state and local government taxation of the working and property-owning American. How can I truly say that I am a free man when all levels of government spending go unchecked? Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:57:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197225721.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197225721.html To the editor: Pregnancy is not to be taken lightly and mdash; no matter what the age. I am 18 and a senior in high school. After seeing the YouTube video on the Horribles Parade in Beverly, my heart dropped. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:38:00 +0000 http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197013802.html http://www.gloucestertimes.com/puopinion/local_story_197013802.html To the editor: Just when we thought that perhaps Gloucester's fiscal woes were being managed a bit for the better, a potential future catastrophe has surfaced in a recent edition of the Boston Business Journal.