Stage Fort Park Beach Clean Up

grandbanksbp's avatarCape Ann Home

Grand Banks is hosting a Stage Fort Park Clean Up! Together with our partners at Annisquam Landcare and Provia, we’re going to keep our shores beautiful, naturally.

Join us Saturday, May 15 @ 9:30!

Stage Fort Park is one of the most visited spaces in Gloucester, and for good reason. It’s beautiful and it provides fields, playground and tables for everyone to enjoy. To protect this incredible resource, we need to do our part. So we are hosting a cleanup to keep Stage Fort beautiful. Not only will this help keep the space clean, but it will prevent the trash from getting blown out to sea, and polluting our harbor and the ocean beyond. Join us for you chance to help.

We’ll provide gloves and trash bags. After you collect the trash you can leave your bag of trash with us. We’ll also have coffee and pastries incase you…

View original post 53 more words

Free Family Yoga classes offered on CAM Green

Cape Ann Museum's avatarCape Ann Community

Held on Saturdays at 10 a.m., May 8 to 29

GLOUCESTER, MASS. (May 2021) – To continue engagement with children and families, the Cape Ann Museum is offering free family yoga classes every Saturday at 10 a.m. in the month of May. Families will get the opportunity to pose like a sculpture on the lawn of CAM Green with yoga teacher Erin McKay from Treetop Yoga. The four-week series will allow parents and children to do yoga together outside while safely socially distanced.

Yoga attendees will also be given a take home packet of art materials to participate in CAM’s ongoing Community Portrait Project. Started in January 2020, the project seeks to create a collective portrait of the Cape Ann community, before and after the outbreak of COVID-19. All of the collected portraits will be installed in Quilted Together, an exhibition in the Janet & William Ellery James…

View original post 75 more words

Living Life By The Sea

Halyard's avatarCape Ann Home

Offering one and two bedroom apartments homes, Halyard is your source for living your best life by the sea.

Call today to book a tour of your next home 978-515-2500 or visit our website halyardapts.com to view our modern and spacious floorplans sure to meet all your apartment home needs.

View original post

Redefining Heritage: Garbage to Gardens

backyardgrowersgloucester's avatarCape Ann Community

Hosted by Essex National Heritage Area, join three Essex County agriculture experts to learn about the history of sustainable growing and the future of healthy soils.

Essex County has a long history of agriculture, with some of the oldest working farms in the country still operating today. There is also a deep-rooted tradition of individual and community gardening that has seen a rise in interest during the social isolation of the current pandemic. Creating healthy soils and sustainable landscapes not only for large, established farms, but for backyard gardeners is essential, and something that the speakers in this session will focus on. Join Jennifer Core, Director of Agriculture for The Trustees, Andrew Brousseau, Partner and Compost Manager for Black Earth Compost, and Lara Lepionka, Founder and Executive Director of Backyard Growers, to learn the history of farming in Essex County, the science of soil, and how those interested in starting…

View original post 26 more words

GMGI Updates from the Harbor: April 2021

Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute's avatarCape Ann Community

These monthly updates give us the opportunity to report on the wonderful progress being made across GMGI. We are grateful not only to have consistent and positive updates to share, but also for the engaged and supportive community that shares in our excitement.

This month, you can read about: the stellar Class of 2021 as they continue their internships; the addition of a new team member who will lead the biomanufacturing curriculum in the soon-to-be-completed lab space at the Academy; details on an exciting research collaboration with a neighbor across the harbor; and a sneak peak of some good news to come on sequencing the lobster genome!

Please continue to send us your thoughts, comments and feedback – this communication is valued and appreciated by all of us.

Chris Bolzan
Executive Director

Photo credit: Ocean Alliance

Partnership with GMGI and Ocean Alliance Continues
For the past three years, GMGI has…

View original post 1,490 more words

Mother’s Day is almost here and our teams have been working to put together a line up of special menus that she’ll love.

sam's avatarcapeanneats

Mother’s Day is almost here and our teams have been working to put together a line up ofspecial menusthat she’ll love.

Alternate text

Click on the restaurant’s name below to view our Mother’s Day Specials.

15 Walnut.The Spot Winchester.Hale Street Tavern.Maggie’s Farm.Minglewood Harborside.The Spot Georgetown.Opus.Cala’s.

Give Mom something delicious this Mother’s Day!

Treat Mom to a cocktail with her friends on one of our outdoor patios, a much-deserved date night in a cozy booth, or perhaps she’ll even take you to lunch ; )

Order yourSerenitee Gift Cardonline or purchase one at any of our restaurants.E-Gift Cardsare also available.

Image

View original post

You Have Home Financing Options Contact Gloucester Local CrossCountry Mortgage 617-688-6891

prattbrandon's avatarCape Ann Home

82865917_499353900752291_1013644695974182912_n.jpg

Contact me 617-688-6891

brandon.pratt@myccmortgage.com

http://www.northshorehomeloans.com

View original post

Deb Hardy: Hover, Float and Drift

My latest short art documentary filmed in Rockport featuring underwater floating objects and hovering driftwood in the air. It’s called Hover, Float & Drift and was co-produced by Kerry Mullen