GLOUCESTER — A $29 million project to modernize and expand the Sawyer Free Library on Dale Avenue, a plan that has been in the works for years, officially broke ground on Friday.
With speeches, applause, hardhats and ceremonial shovels thrust into a pile of sand, the ceremony for the library was held in a tent in the library’s School Street parking lot where the building’s 14,000-square-foot addition will go at the back of the building.
It’s expected that construction fencing will go up in mid-October for a project scheduled to take 18 months.
The event featured a display of a Lego model of the new Sawyer Free Library. It was attended by more than 200 people, including library supporters, officials and…
