Amazing on the Back Shore on Friday. Be careful out there.
Month: September 2026
Maine Moments
Solitude
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Artist news: Jason Burroughs Open Studio #GloucesterMA save the date
Jason Burroughs has a new studio on Commercial Street. Mark your calendars Oct 25, 2026!
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Jackson Dave Friedman on the Breakwater during the storm. For the record I do not endorse this any sort of rational idea.
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15 Yards Out and Straight In!
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Saturday 9/26 treats are calling At Surfside Subs and Long Beach Dairy Maid! 🍕🦞🍦
Stop by Surfside today for some seriously good specials:
🦞 $17.99 + tax Lobster Roll served with chips & pickles
🍕 Buy any 18” pizza and get the 2nd 18” pizza HALF PRICE
*limit of 2 per customer
🍕 Buy any 16” pizza and get the 2nd 16” pizza HALF PRICE
*limit of 2 per customer
⏰ Surfside open 11–9
Then head over to Long Beach Dairy Maid for dessert! 🍨
🍦 Buy any ice cream and get the second HALF PRICE
⏰ Long Beach Dairy Maid open 12–9
Make a day of it—lunch, dinner, and dessert all covered! 🌊☀️
**Excludes gluten-free and online orders. Pizza specials cannot be combined. **
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Long Beach storm photos: 7:30 A.M. and Friday’s drenched sunset eve. #GloucesterMA #RockportMA
September storm photos 9/26/26. “It’s a LOT harder this way!” passing walkers oft repeated, heading from Glouc. to Rockport end of Long Beach. At 7:30 AM ribbons of wind whipped dry sand failed to pick up. Rain began 8:30. Next high tide about 11:30. Forecast estimates 5-8pm as greater impact.
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Drying wings
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Rosy sunset and moon over the Annisquam Footbridge
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Wednesday walking the Back Shore
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Bent Fork…
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Monoliths before the reveal. And after! Photos of city signs & municipal directories. Wayfinding design in #GloucesterMA, #IpswichMA, #RockportMA
Update: Scroll down to see AFTER!
Photos 2026 various days/months
The random conspicuous yet unused digital display signs by St. Peters were removed.
AFTER photos: Sept. 25, 2026
The new city wayfinding signs express a little bit of the original Gloucester Harbor Walk design (Cambridge Seven Assoc.), which gave a nod in part to famous subway maps/color legibility. Not sure how/where the eventual site design may land for the current iterations. If the “subway” stop signs were integrated and situated next to parking meters and a HarborWalk marker — and mindful of not blocking sitelines– it might help.
The original Gloucester Harbor Walk design
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Cape Ann Compass With Marcy Plante
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Long Beach photos before the storm. Surfers, plumes and popples.
High tides: Thursday 10 AM. Friday 11AM (white foam has reached the wall). Saturday noon. Sunday 1PM.
photos: Sept. 24, 2026. Storm prep bustle was light because so many had cleared out ahead of Labor day. The footbridge to Cape Hedge is removed. The seawall stairs have not been removed for the season.
photos: Sept. 25, 2026. Surfers out.
video: Sept. 25
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Katherine Downey Miller art exhibit opens tomorrow to kick off the artist installed exhibition season 2026 at Jane Deering Gallery. Halibut Point one source for Waterborne show
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“Opening at Jane Deering Gallery is Katherine Downey Miller | Waterborne on Saturday September 26th with a reception from 3-5pm. For Katherine Downey Miller, a renowned New England artist known for her work that moves between landscape and abstraction, this exhibition is a homecoming. It was at Halibut Point, less than five miles from the gallery’s door, that she first absorbed the raw energy of the Atlantic as a child; and it is that coastline—its beauty, its violence, its vast unknowability—that she has spent a career translating into paint. The exhibition brings together works on canvas and paper in oil and acrylic, tracing the arc of a practice rooted in landscape and drawn, inevitably, toward the sea.
Gallery hours: Fri & Sat 1-5pm; Sun 1-4pm; and by appointment at 781-405-5050.
images:
- Jacob’s Pond 2025 . Oil on canvas . 36” x 48”
- Lake 2024 . Acrylic on canvas . 72x72inches
- The Falls 2 2026 . Acrylic on Yupo paper on board . 12″ x 9″
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Concert is on!
Storm update and reminder from Heidi Dallin about the Cape Ann Symphony momentous opener for their diamond anniversary season–75 years!!
Read all about it in the press release
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Surfside Subs FRIDAY 9/25 SPECIALS! 🦞🍕
Kick off the weekend with some Surfside favorites!
🦞 $17.99 + tax Lobster Roll served with chips & pickles
🍕 Buy any 18” Pizza, get the 2nd 18” Pizza HALF PRICE!
Limit of 2 per customer
🍕 Buy any 16” Pizza, get the 2nd 16” Pizza HALF PRICE!
Limit of 2 per customer
Perfect excuse to skip cooking tonight and start your Friday with lobster rolls & pizza! 🙌
Excludes gluten free
Excludes online orders
Pizza specials cannot be combined
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Pink House Marker in Newbury
The iconic Pink House in Newbury was demolished about 18 months ago and I miss seeing it when we drive up there. I was glad to see this marker honoring its memory.
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Make sure that you are not using your Casella carts until the Casella service starts on October 1st, 2026!!!!
Attention Residents – Trash Talk!
Make sure that you are not using your Casella carts until the Casella service starts on October 1st, 2026.
Republic has let us know that they will refuse to service anyone who is using a Casella trash cart, as they cannot legally empty a Casella branded cart. If you are using your Casella cart before October 1st, your trash/recylcing won’t be picked up!
If you have any questions, please call the DPW at 978-325-5600.
