Month: March 2012

“Rockport – Historical Photos, Then & Now” ~ Video presentation
at the Rockport Senior Center

Gil McCarthy, Rockport Council on Aging board member and Freda Collins,
meals coordinator for SeniorCare view old photos of Rockport. The photos
will be on display on Friday, April 20 at 7 p.m. at the Rockport Senior Center.
McCarthy is preparing a photo video of “Rockport – Historical Photos, Then & Now.”

The Rockport Council on Aging is extending an invitation to
all area residents to attend. The presentation will be a comparison of
historical photographs with current photos. There is no fee, refreshments
will be served. Pre-registration is requested by calling 978-546-2573.

The evening will also be an opportunity to view the
recently restored oil paintings that were placed in the
building around the boarder of the ceilings in the late 30’s.

Michelle Talisman, Chairman of the Rockport Council on Aging
said, “this will be an excellent opportunity for Cape Ann residents
to attend an enjoyable evening with friends and to share refreshment
and exchange experiences of living in the beautiful town of Rockport.”

The Rockport Senior Center is located at 58 Broadway.
To learn more about this program or upcoming programs,
please contact the center’s director,
Diane Bertolino at rockportcoa@rockportma.org

From Nancy Gaines, The GDT.

“Preliminary plans for the Beauport Gloucester hotel at the former Birdseye site on Pavilion Beach call for a four-story structure, containing 102 mid-priced rooms, a restaurant, meeting center and parking under the building.

With the developers, Beauport Gloucester LLC, already having given “perpetual use” of the beach to the community, they now promise to create a public walkway from Commercial Street to the beach.

Another special local feature, said the hotel project’s managing director, Sheree DeLorenzo, will be retaining or rebuilding the Birdseye white tower, “because it’s a local landmark,” she said.

The plans will be brought before City Council Monday in the first in a series of public meetings by the city Planning Board and the council’s Planning and Development Subcommittee.

The project, financed by Jim Davis — the owner and founder of New Balance shoes, who has a home in Bay View — could cost $75 million, industry experts say.

The plan entails amending — but not dropping — the marine industrial zoning of Fort Square to accommodate a hotel that would be subject to stiff special permitting. The proposed rezoning — with a hotel overlay district — is the subject of Monday’s hearing, which is set for 7 p.m. in City Hall’s Kyrouz Auditorium.

“We listened to the community,” said DeLorenzo, who manages Cruiseport and the Seaport Grille and who will make a presentation to the council Monday.

“We heard that people wanted friends, family, visitors or business colleagues to be able to stay in the city, in a type of accommodation they were accustomed to,” she said. “We will make Birdseye a beautiful property.”

DeLorenzo said the project may well bring up to 100 new jobs to the city, with positions in all ranges of income. A trickle-down effect, she said, would also expand business for providers of local goods like fish, cakes, candies, beer and spirits, florists.”

For much more on this story, look to tomorrow’s print and online editions of the Gloucester Daily Times and gloucestertimes.com.

To have text updates regarding this story and other local Breaking News coverage, just sign up for the Times’ free text-alert service on the gloucestertimes.com homepage. For more up-to-date coverage, follow the Times news and sports teams on Twitter at twitter.com@gdtnews or gdtsports.

Nancy Gaines is a regular Times correspondent and an editor of Boston and national publications.

Oh, you get to go out and take Photos.

Hey Joe,

                I got a feeling that wicked Tuna is goanna be a big hit,Have you checked it out yet.I think like the Deadliest Catch or anything to do with commercial fishing more people want to see more.I hope it will help promote Gloucester as the Bluefin Capital of the world and bring more people to town to charter fish.

I hope you give it some space on your blog.

Thanks,

Mike Parisi

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/national-geographic-channel/extras/wicked-tuna/ngc-wicked-tuna/

Pathways for Children will be hosting Parent & Child Drop-In Playgroups on Monday mornings from 10:00- 11:30 am, at their Cape Ann Families playspace located at 28 Emerson Ave.( across the street from Pathways) in Gloucester. On Monday March 12th Martha Morgan will be our featured guest reader. Martha is an early educator and children’s librarian. “Please join us for stories, songs, fingerplays and FUN”. Play group is open to all parents and children ages birth- five. For further information please contact Amy Larsen at 978 281-2400 x 120 or alarsen@pw4c.org.