Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

My daughters love Castaways Vintage Cafe.

They were singing this song on the way last Saturday morning. I didn’t remember the song until they reminded me it was from one of our favorite children’s programs that we’d watch together when they were little. Now I can’t get it out of my head.

We cordially invite our current and prospective members to attend a welcome reception, announcing the official merger of the Cape Ann and Ipswich Chambers of Commerce. This is an exciting and important step forward for the four communities of Cape Ann and Ipswich. We look forward to meeting our new Ipswich members and introducing them to our Cape Ann members, as we formally introduce ourselves as the Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce.

Wild Things” exhibition at Cultural Center on Rocky Neck.
Exhibition runs through September 12.

Labor Day weekend online order is ready. It will be the last week for Wicked Poké & Lunch service as well. Reserve your Omakase/sushi before it sells out. Look forward to serving you this weekend. Thank you 

http://www.sushisanglee.com/ (978) 381-3818

September 4^th @ 7pm, boarding at 6:30 (415 Main Street, Cape Ann Whale Watch)

$20 tickets – cash only

Full bar

DJ Tracey Sousa

Fun for all ages!

Thanks!

Cape Ann Whale Watch

1800-877-5110

www.seethewhales.com

www.facebook.com/capeannwhalewatch

Instagram: @capeannwhalewatch

Hi Joey,  

I know you like a competition where your huge viewership can vote.  It turns out that I was wrong and the competition for the video award is “people’s choice.”  Voting just opened and we are competing with just six other communities.  Gloucester is clearly the best, but we need the votes to win.  

Can you promote it again on GMG?  They will be accepting votes right up until they announce the winner live on Friday, October 1 during the virtual Symposium.  

Here’s the link to the tool they are using to show the videos and accept votes:  

Thank you so much. 

Susan Kelly

Generous Gardeners

Vote here- https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AIB2021

Generous Gardeners is a volunteer group of gardeners with the mission of beautification of Gloucester Massachusetts with public flower gardens. This video is a submission for a competition sponsored by America in Bloom.

All I know is GHS Field Hockey Is Gonna Be a complete powerhouse when Jimmy Dalpiaz coaches em up through middle school!

Community Open House: Friday, Sept. 10 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (September 2021) – After 1 ½ years of being closed due to the pandemic, a completely remodeled and repainted Library & Archives is reopening at the Cape Ann Museum at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester next week. “We are thrilled to welcome the public the new and improved Library & Archives,” said Oliver Barker, the Cape Ann Museum’s Director. “The Museum has been working hard, with the help of our Volunteer Team, to make the space more inviting, accessible and functional in the ways the public needs.”

A Grand Re-opening event for members will be held on Thursday, Sept. 9 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Librarian & Archivist Trenton Carls will give tours of the new layout, discussing projects from the past year, displaying recent acquisitions, and sharing what is on the horizon for the CAM Library & Archives. There will be live music by local jazz musician Steve Lacey, light refreshments, and a small used book sale taking place in the atrium. The CAM Library Volunteer team will be on hand to discuss projects they have been working on and will answer any questions.

The public is invited to a Community Open House on Friday, Sept 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Throughout the day, Carls will be on hand to discuss the newly updated and reopened Library, showcasing recent acquisitions, walking visitors through recent digital exhibits and introducing many of the CAM Library Volunteers, without whom, none of this would be possible. On that day, there will be an encore Community Conversations event with the CAM Librarian & Archivist at 1 p.m. to share changes and plans, and seek input from the community about how to make the CAM Library & Archives a welcome and useful resource to all. The Museum’s Librarian & Archivist Trenton Carls shared that, “This is the moment we have been looking forward to since last March. While we have been very fortunate to have had this past year to connect with the community virtually and by appointment, we are eager for everyone to come back in and enjoy this space and CAM’s incredible collections.”

For more information about the exhibit and other events happening at the Cape Ann Museum, visit www.capeannmuseum.org.

GLOUCESTER, MA, August 31, 2021 – BankGloucester is pleased to announce that voting in their 14th Annual “Banking for the Community” program will begin on September 1st and end on September 30th. Over the past thirteen years, through this program, the Bank has awarded $225,000 to dozens of deserving non-profit and community organizations. This year the Bank will award a total of $25,000 to 21 organizations. Community votes will determine how the funds are allocated. Last year over 9,000 community members participated in the voting process.

The organization with the most votes will receive $5,000. The organization receiving the second most votes will receive $4,000. The organization with the third most votes will receive $3,000. Organizations with fourth and fifth most votes will receive $2,000 each and sixth and seventh will receive $1,000. Fourteen other participating organizations will receive $500 each.

Voting will take place through BankGloucester’s website www.BankGloucester.com and ballots will also be available for completion at the Bank’s Gloucester, Essex and Ipswich branches for those without access to a computer. You may vote for up to three organizations on each ballot. One entry per person/email address or one ballot per person. Winners of this program will be announced at a reception at the Bass Rocks Golf Club, where checks will also be presented.

“BankGloucester is fortunate to be part of a great community and we feel it is important to be active in it and give back to it. Our Banking for the Community program is one of the many ways we do this and we are happy to be celebrating the 14th year of this event” stated BankGloucester President and CEO, Patrick Thorpe.

The following organizations are included on this year’s ballot: Action Inc., Backyard Growers, Cape Ann Animal Aid, Cape Ann Veterans, Care Dimensions, Essex County Greenbelt Association, Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Generous Gardens, Gloucester Education Foundation, Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, Ipswich Animal Shelter, Ipswich Caring, NAMI, Three Sisters Garden Project, Open Door (the), Rose Baker Senior Center, Essex Senior Center / Council on Aging, Seaside Sustainability, Senior Care and Wellspring. There is also a space where voters may write-in an organization of their own choice. Information about the organizations is available on the Bank’s website and in the Bank’s lobbies located at 160 Main Street in Gloucester, 15 Martin Street in Essex and 143 High Street in Ipswich.

BankGloucester, with assets of $330 million, is a state-chartered mutual bank has been serving Gloucester and its neighboring communities since 1887.

BankGloucester is headquartered at 160 Main Street in Gloucester and has a branch at 15 Martin Street in Essex and 143 High Street in Ipswich. They are a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and a member of the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF); at BankGloucester, all deposits are insured in full.

For additional information please contact: Kathryn Wall, Marketing Specialist, BankGloucester kwall@bankgloucester.com – 978-675-9903

NOAA Fisheries and our partners are dedicated to conserving and rebuilding the North Atlantic right whale population, which is endangered, declining, and experiencing an ongoing Unusual Mortality Event.

Entanglement in commercial fishing gear is a primary cause of mortalities and serious injuries of North Atlantic right whales. Working with the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team—a group of advisors consisting of fishermen, scientists, conservationists, and state and federal officials—we have completed Phase 1 of the modifications to the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan to continue to reduce whale entanglements.

Today, we are announcing the final rule to modify the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan. The gear modifications required by the rule will go into effect May 1, 2022, which is the start of the American lobster/Jonah crab fishing year. The changes to the seasonally restricted areas will go into effect 30 days after the publication of this rule.

We would like to thank the many stakeholders who submitted more than 200,000 public comments on the proposed rule. The comments guided us in modifying the final rule to allow more flexibility for fishermen, while still achieving the necessary risk reduction to make a real difference for right whales. These measures will reduce the deaths and serious injuries to North Atlantic right whales due to entanglements in U.S. commercial fishing gear, and will contribute to the recovery of this endangered population.

Final Rule Measures

The rule modifies regulations for the Northeast lobster and Jonah crab trap/pot fisheries as follows: 

• Modify gear marking to introduce state-specific colors for gear marks and increase the number of gear markings and areas requiring marked lines.
• Modify gear configurations to reduce the number of vertical lines by requiring more traps between buoy lines.
• Require weak insertions or weak rope in buoy lines.
• Modify existing seasonal closure/restricted areas to allow ropeless fishing.
• Add two new seasonal restricted areas.
• Following changes made by Massachusetts, extend the Massachusetts Restricted Area (MRA) to add state waters north to the New Hampshire border.