At sunset today, the sky was suffused with orange. At the Lynn end of the Nahant Causeway, it was enough to give you a sense of what it would be like to be on Mars, if Mars were a bit warmer and had oceans and people and a causeway.

Sean Sullivan captured the orange sky near North Station.

An established community concert band, founded in 1932, is looking for additional players. If you're a current player, come sit in. If you're a musician who played a concert band instrument,and would like to be playing on a regular basis, please give us a look.

Our pages are located at:

http://rockportlegionband.wordpress.com

Non-profit to shut doors next month - unless some generous type gives it a bunch of money to keep open.

Wicked Local Swampscott reports a Jewish education and outreach group has suspended operations and fired all its workers because it invested all its money with Bernard Madoff, whose assets the feds seized yesterday after charging him with running a $50-billion Ponzi scheme (named after Boston's own Charles Ponzi).

With Thanksgiving around the corner and the holiday season fast approaching, many people are in the market for holiday greeting cards for family and friends.

Project Bread, The Walk for Hunger is offering a wide variety of holiday cards for the 2008 season with unique images and heart-warming messages that will appeal to all. “Through the sale of holiday cards we help hungry families in need during the winter months,” said Ellen Parker, executive director of Project Bread. “It’s a program that does a lot of good.”