We may not feel that Spring is here but it will come and the warmth and summer will follow.
Month: April 2020
Restaurants and Retailers That Are Open List From The Cape Ann Chamber Of Commerce
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RALPH PUOPOLO AND PAUL GIACALONE PRACTICING PHYSICAL DISTANCING
These two friends practicing physical distancing as Ralph is getting his morning Joe at Castaways ❤
Ralph shared beautiful drone photos of Gloucester from Dave Gleason
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It was so nice, I’m doing it TWICE! Join me Saturday April 18th, right here on Facebook 7pm for another CONCERT AT HOME…
“IT’S SATURDAY…YOU GOTTA STAY IN THE HOUSE, AIN’T GOT NOTHING TO DO”
OH BUT YOU DOOOOO!
Come join me 7pm THIS SATURDAY, RIGHT HERE…NEW TUNES TO DANCE TO!
Tell your friends, have a party (but in your own homes, safely).
#johnjeromemusic #islandcowboy #ICNATION #localmusic #quarantinelife #couchconcerts #stayhome #gloucesterma
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Marshall Farm Stand
Marshalls Farm Stand Curbside Ordering Greenhouses 978-283-2168 144 Concord Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Family owned and operated—for many generations, the Marshall family has farmed the land on the North Shore of Boston.
Current COVID-19 Information
WE ARE OPEN! We decided to open the farm stand early this year to give our customers an option other than shopping at a large supermarket. At this time, we will have a limited inventory. Our main concern is the health and safety of our customers and our staff! Therefore, we will be offering curbside pickup exclusively for farm stand products.
Although we are not allowing our customers into the farm stand during this time, our greenhouses are open to customers. We are following CDC and Gloucester Board of Health guidelines. All employees and customers must wear an appropriate face mask covering their nose and mouth and social distancing is required. To help with social distancing, we are marking aisles as one way in the greenhouses and in the plant display areas. We are also offering curbside pickup for plants.
CURBSIDE ORDERING
Family owned and operated – for many generations, the Marshall family has farmed the land on the North Shore of Boston.
We pride ourselves in our selection of homegrown & locally grown fresh seasonal produce and in our abundant variety of annual & perennial flowers and vegetable and herb plants.
As the season unfolds, our Farm Stand choices let you enjoy the very best flavors of local produce, bakeries, dairies and butchers. Stop by soon…and often.
If anyone is looking for fresh produce, meats, Richardson ice cream, eggs, flowers, veggie plants, bags of soil, compost, cow manure for your garden go to.
Marshallsfarmstand.com.
We are offering curbside orders and deliveries.
Stay safe!
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Guy R II Fishermen’s Wharf Photo From Jackie Bennett
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Minglewood Harborside and Fisherman’s Wharf Gloucester have patnered to help provide you with everything you need to enjoy a delicious meal around fresh, local seafood
Minglewood Harborside and Fisherman’s Wharf Gloucester have patnered to help provide you with everything you need to enjoy a delicious meal around fresh, local seafood – without making a trip to the store.
Order your haddock or scallops from Fisherman’s Wharf Gloucester and sides, beer & wine from Minglewood Harborside; one call, one stop, one payment. Just call 978.281.7707 to place your order and receive a pickup time, pull into one of our curbside pickup spots in front of Minglewood Harborside, and we’ll bring everything out to your car.
10 AM – 4 PM, Tuesday – Saturday
978.281.7707
Credit Cards, Apple & Google Pay only
Fisherman’s Wharf Fresh Seafood
HADDOCK 2lbs 15
SCALLOPS 1lb 15
Minglewood Takeout Menu
all sides are intended to feed 2 to 4 people
ROASTED VEGETABLE MEDLEY 12
Seasonal Vegetables, Garlic, Parmesan
ROSEMARY ROASTED POTATOES 12
Garlic, Rosemary, Parsley, Butter
RITZ CRACKER CRUMBS & PARSLEY 4
CLAM CHOWDER 12 pint, 22 quart
PASTA SALAD 10
BROWNIES 8
Wine
KJ CHARDONNAY 22
OYSTER BAY SAUVIGNON BLANC 22
HAYES RANCH CABERNET 20
DARK KNIGHT BLEND 22
STUDIO ROSE 26
Beer by the Bottle
BUD LITE 4
BUDWEISER 4
CORONA 4
32oz Bottled Draft
BENTWATER SLUICE JUICE 14
ALLAGASH WHITE 14
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Boulevard Beauty
Spring flowers, and especially tulips, are my very favorites and I look forward to seeing them burst forth each year. As you already know, the boulevard display beats any nearby so-called “tulip festival” but this is what it looks like just before we get to enjoy the beauty. It’s so nice to see green popping out everywhere. These were taken maybe a week ago so progress has certainly been made since then. Even the pansies seem to join the tulips and the Fisherman’s Wife watching the skyline for returning boats.
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Mask On!
We look forward to see what pithy advice Howard’s Flying Dragon Antiques will have for us. This advice was displayed even before masks became required in certain circumstances. Thanks, Howard’s!
As an FYI we took Donna Ardizzoni’s advice and contacted Sue Wheeler of Arts Abound in Magnolia to purchase some additional masks. You may want to do the same! $15 each. Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/artsaboundmagnolia/
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Spring Allergies ~
Spring is springing and so are allergies!
Nobody wants to hear this, but diet definitely does make a difference when you’re suffering from allergies.
Most people suffer from Kapha type (phlegm) of allergy symptoms – sinus congestion, sneezing, lung congestion, watery eyes, fatigue, lethargy, mental fogginess. So it’s important during allergy season, and even for several weeks prior, to start a Kapha reducing diet. This means cutting out or drastically reducing dairy products, wheat, fried foods, and cold or iced drinks. During this time you want to add warming spices like ginger, drying grains like rye and barley, and lots of fresh vegetables including leafy greens.
Ayurveda Wellness Healing, LLC is available to help you through the spring allergy season just message us to book your virtual appointment.
“Blockage is disease/Flow is health”😊
info@ayurvedawellnesshealing.com
www.ayurvedawellnesshealing.com
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Gloucester Biotechnology Academy accepting applications for next class!
While working from home, Academy staff are still reviewing applications, holding interviews via Zoom and accepting students into the next Gloucester Biotechnology Academy class! Don’t wait, space is limited and class spots are filling up – APPLY TODAY!
This is a chance to gain the skills you need to start a career in the exciting field of biotech. After six months of intensive, hands-on lab skills work and training at the Academy’s state-of-the-art teaching facility in Blackburn Center, you’ll have the opportunity to earn a three-month, paid internship at a biotech company in Boston/Cambridge/the North Shore. This is a unique and fulfilling experience, don’t miss out!
More information, as well as the application, can be found on our website: gmgi.org/apply. You can also reach out to Lead Teacher, Elizabeth Wing for more information at elizabeth.wing@gmgi.org.
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Feather and Wedge Dinner Drinks and Dessert!
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Feather and Wedge Dinner Drinks and Dessert!
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GLOUCESTERCAST 400 THE NOT-SO-NEWLYWED GAME WITH HOST SCOTTIE MAC, CHRIS AND CHARLEEN MCCARTHY, RALPH AND KIM DIGIORGIO AND JOEY C AND KATE
GLOUCESTERCAST 400 THE NOT-SO-NEWLYWED GAME WITH HOST SCOTTIE MAC, CHRIS AND CHARLEEN MCCARTHY, RALPH AND KIM DIGIORGIO AND JOEY C AND KATE
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Topics Include:
Thank you to the people on the font lines of the crisis that are sacrificing being away from their families- First Responders, Health Care Workers, Grocery Store People, Truckers and anyone else sacrificing to keep things moving.
All new mask requirements came out today-
http://gloucester-ma.gov/CivicAlerts/SingleAlertItem?alertID=1548
Also the state of Essex before the pandemic and all the cool stuff happening there
What it’s like for hockey parents so used to be on the go every day to not have soccer
Scottie:
Easter and lack there of (tradition , prayer, family ,friends etc).
Recent experiences with good/bad/ thoughts of necessity and essential shopping
How will this effect upcoming elections . Social distancing vs. getting the nomination to be on the ballet, and the current voting process .
What will you/ people do you first for social engagement , as the Powers that be loosen restrictions and thing begin to return to normal ?
Topic: who is cross fit for and how does someone with no wind ever catch up to the people that are in great shape
Ken has chickens
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Picked up an Easter cake ice cream cake at white farms today…. because I’m no Felicia.
What are your silver linings? Mine is more quality time with Thatch. He truly enjoys long car drives, bike rides, and walks. Finn prefers his video games right now. One of two isn’t bad.
There’s a house in Rockport that we have thought maybe belonged to Adam Sandler for years….. met the owner the other day. Turns out he’s not Adam Sandler…. and he may not love people driving by looking for Adam.
‘I Just Need the Comfort’: Processed Foods Make a Pandemic Comeback
Shoppers, moved by nostalgia and hunting for longer shelf lives, are returning to old standbys like Chef Boyardee and Campbell’s soup.
By Julie Creswell
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THANK YOU GOVERNOR BAKER AND THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION FOR PROTECTING PIPING PLOVERS AT DCR BEACHES!
So proud to live in Massachusetts, a state where the lives of threatened and endangered shorebirds that nest along our coastline, birds such as Least Terns, Piping Plovers, and American Oyster Catchers, are considered worth protecting.
Despite all that the state government is trying to manage with the pandemic at its very peak, a huge shout out to Governor Baker and his administration for continuing the fight to help protect Piping Plovers. The Governor’s list of essential workers includes natural resource workers and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation has placed symbolic roping and threatened species signs on DCR beaches. For over forty years, people have been working to rebuild the Piping Plover population and it will only add to the coronavirus tragedy if we cease protecting threatened and endangered wildlife.
The PiPls are having a tough time of it this spring, largely because so much of their overwintering habitat was ravished during last year’s Hurricane Dorian. Let’s all work together to share the shore with wildlife and to protect our own Good Harbor Beach Piping Plover family!
Males and females are pairing up at local beaches
Male PiPl building a nest scrape and tossing bits of shells and sand into the scrape
Female PiPl keeping out of the path of gusty winds
Winthrop Shores Reservation ‘Five Sisters’
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DON’T FORGET TONIGHt THURSDAY 6:30PM GLOUCESTERCAST 400 THE NOT-SO-NEWLYWED GAME WITH HOST SCOTTIE MAC, CHRIS AND CHARLEEN MCCARTHY, RALPH AND KIM DIGIORGIO AND JOEY C AND KATE
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FISHERMAN’S WHARF GLOUCESTER NEW CURBSIDE PICKUP DETAILS – OPEN NOW EVERY TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY – READ MORE
We have partnered with our neighbor Minglewood Harborside to help provide you with everything you need to enjoy a delicious meal around our fresh, local seafood – without making a trip to the store.
Order your haddock or scallops from Fisherman’s Wharf Gloucester and sides, beer & wine from Minglewood Harborside; one call, one stop, one payment.
Just call 978.281.7707 to place your order and receive a pickup time, pull into one of our curbside pickup spots in front of Minglewood Harborside, and we’ll bring everything out to your car.
10 AM – 4 PM, Tuesday – Saturday
978.281.7707
Credit Cards, Apple & Google Pay only
$15 2 lbs. Fresh Haddock (pre-bagged)
$15.00 1 lb. Container of Fresh Scallops(dry)
edit: clam chowder* $22
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TOO FAT FOR CHINA STREAMING VIA THE GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY
TOO FAT FOR CHINA
A Comic Look at the Agony of Adoption by PHOEBE POTTS
WATCH ONLINE NOW!
Gloucester Stage Company debuted TOO FAT FOR CHINA, a world premiere one woman show written and performed by cartoonist and storyteller and Gloucester resident Phoebe Potts, to sold our audiences at Gloucester Stage in November 2019 This comedic theater performance (debuting on National Adoption Day, Nov. 23) is a sequel to Potts’ graphic memoir, Good Eggs (Harper, 2010), which charts her travails with infertility and the endless rounds of treatments and miscarriages she and her husband endured. Roz Chast, the New Yorker cartoonist, called Potts’ memoir “sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always honest, intelligent, and completely involving.” In Too Fat for China, Potts picks up the narrative with her quest for an international adoption. The story has a happy ending, but it twists and turns through fraught questions about family and race— subjects that feel particularly pertinent in our current political climate. Potts tackles it all, as she does life, with humor and irreverence.
Phoebe Potts is donating all proceeds from streaming to Gloucester’s Backyard Growers.
The performance was filmed in front of a live theater audience and edited to fit your viewing screen.
Streaming Tickets are $9. Click https://gloucesterstage.com/too-fat-for-china/ to purchase and gain access Now through Sunday April 26th.
ABOUT THE COMPANY: Gloucester Stage is a professional non-profit theater providing a unique, intimate experience for audiences and committed to supporting new works. Located in a century old re-purposed brick warehouse on the waterfront of Cape Ann, the organization is led by Artistic Director Robert Walsh and Managing Director Christopher Griffith.
For further information, call the Gloucester Stage Box Office at 978-281-4433 or visit WWW.GLOUCESTERSTAGE.COM
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Love these sculptors
This gentleman who makes these great pieces of art is a very nice man. He uses all recycled metal. Everything from horse shoes to blades of old lawn mowers.
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Cape Ann Olive Oil Store
Cape Ann Olive Oil Co. 57 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930, will be OPEN this Saturday, April 18 from 11 to 2 for curbside pickup and delivery. You can order at www.capeannoliveoil.com and email at capeann.oo@gmail.com or call at 978-281-1061. We appreciate your support. Stay safe!!
I have done this as well, love their Mission Fig, it is safe and easy to pick up.
Good Morning Gloucester 