ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester: Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk, left, dropped by to ask Beeman Elementary School fifth graders about what they were learning on Thursday while they participated in the new Ocean Explorers Program, a collaborative effort between Maritime Gloucester and NOAA and the schooner Ardelle. The students were learning what it's like to be a marine or physical scientist.

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