View from the piping plover watch: trio of Good Harbor Beach lifeguard chairs, upended and evocative.
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Back to Lancaster- Gloucester FYS Tridents made it to the final 4!
Massachusetts Tournament of Champions continues today. Good luck FYS Tridents and have fun!
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Last chance! Closely Related at Flatrocks
CloselyRelated closes tomorrow!
Lynne Saubele wall or ‘booth’ display from the group exhibition CloselyRelated at Flatrocks Gallery, curated by Juni VanDyke.
Installation views of the exibition Continue reading “Last chance! Closely Related at Flatrocks”
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Last chance: ERIN LUMAN glazed beauties at Jane Deering Gallery closes today
ERIN LUMAN shelter | the cottages of Long Beach closes today at Jane Deering Gallery, 19 Pleasant Street, Gloucester. Luman painted a handful more of the small intimate landscapes as all the work on display sold out. Available works are leaning atop the mantel. Clients will begin taking the work home tomorrow.
NEW available works
From the flat files – Ask to see her watercolor series “My Children’s Clothes”
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Fill rake and roll- next steps in the Long Beach seawall storm repair
What a stunner day for the next phase of the Long Beach seawall repair. They’re loading and raking in fill to level the walkway today. Roller still to come.
speedy backing up
this way and that still to come
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time waits for someone
Fiesta committee readies Commercial Street for the Greasy Pole Hall of Fame wall, a dymanic contest look back exhibit and leader boards.
commercial street Before
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Deborah Cramer receives Audubon “A” Award
Congratulations Deborah Cramer!
Audubon Awards an ‘A’ to Gloucester Author, Gloucester Daily Times article by Joann Mackenzie, photo by Shawn G. Henry. Cramer is the author of The Narrow Edge
FYI local photographers – Mass Audubon’s Annual Statewide Photo Contest opened June 19th “Do you enjoy taking photos of woodland paths and shining shorelines, songbirds and bunnies in the backyard, family members and friends reveling in nature? Then you’ll be excited to know that Mass Audubon’s annual statewide photo contest, Picture This: Your Great Outdoors, is now under way and continuing through Sunday, September 30.”
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Warms the heart! Beloved Stage Fort Park play sculpture rebuilt in Gloucester MA
Gloucester’s Stage Fort Park playground and glorious natural setting spark imagination and exciting adventures. The gigantic truck play sculpture was re-built and resited and it’s been tricked out with a slide and an official Cape Ann license plate. Hoping a sea serpent returns with a few Virginia Lee Burton icons one day soon.
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The Lighthouses of Cape Ann
There are six lighthouses on Cape Ann, plus one more imaginative one at Stage Fort Park’s dynamite playground. Recently I hosted a large group visiting from Arizona. They wanted to walk a local history trail and ended up visiting two: the Freedom Trail in Boston and the HarborWalk in Gloucester. Their number one request? They wanted to see lighthouses. Last year, Kathie Gilson and Marie Santos designed this fun shaped brochure for the City of Gloucester. You can find it at the Chamber and the Stage Fort Park welcome center.
Cape Ann Harbor Tours offers special Lighthouse Cruise all along Cape Ann as well as harbor tours. (978) 283-1979 Email info@capeannharbortours.com.
Thacher Island Association offers trips to explore Thacher Island and book overnight stays. Launch (978) 546-7697 E-Mail: info@thacherisland.org
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Boston Globe: The Gull Next Door
On line last night and coming to the paper soon…
The Gull Next Door: Some Glouceser residents can’t stand all the seabirds, Boston Globe
curious if this “disco” treatment works 🙂
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Closely Related Closing Celebration Flatrocks Gallery
Please join us in a Closing Celebration on Friday June 22 from 5 to 7 at Flatrocks Gallery for the group exhibition Closely Related curated by Juni VanDyke and featuring local artists:
Kathleen Gerdon Archer, Shelly Champion, Loren Doucette, Paige Farrell, Jay McLachlan, Barbara Moody, Hans Pundt, Lynne Sausele, Patti Sullivan, Juni VanDyke
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Painting with Pauline LIVE at Trio Restaurant and Bar
Check out Painting with Pauline LIVE at Trio Restaurant and Bar, Thursday 6:30-7:30pm, 64 Main Street, hosted by Bridge Cape Ann and Pauline’s Gifts. The weather forecast looks perfect for a fun event at that pretty outside deck.
Italiano’s has evolved into Trio: “Owners Deo and Paula Braga are creating a legacy of high quality family dining here on Cape Ann. The acclaimed Azorean celebrates the classic cuisine of the Azores… and now they present the Trio Restaurant, Portuguese, American and Italian cuisine. Trio celebrates Italian American and Portuguese dishes, the ones we all know and love, crafted from the best ingredients, with the professional flair of chef Manny Lapa. From salad to dessert, the menu is familiar, comforting, and always delicious.”
Nice touch that high geranium on Trio’s building.
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Congratulations O’Maley 8th grade students aka future GHS class of 2022! Thank you Principal Lucey!
Thanks to all involved in today’s lovely and meaningful graduation ceremonies. Mayor Romeo Theken shook hands with each and every student; I have not seen that with a middle school before. President of BankGloucester, Patrick Thorpe, helped with the presentation of certificates. The student speakers and the O’Maley chorus were awesome. Allison Cousins played a pivotal role in the lives of these 8th grade students through all three middle school years. Now she’ll begin again with the incoming 6th grade class. Thanks to all the 6th, 7th and 8th grade O’Maley educators! Double congratulations to Principal Debra Lucey who is retiring and to her family who welcomed a new baby grandson just before the event.
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FYS Tridents did it! On to the MA Tournament of Champions!
Gloucester Fishermen Youth Soccer team, the Tridents, won the championship in the Essex County Youth Soccer Association’s Championship Tournament in MTOC 1. They are the top boys’ division for grades 5 and 6. “Next up for the Tridents: representing Essex County in the statewide Tournament of Champions this Saturday.”
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Good Harbor Beach storm damage erosion unearths massive glacial outcropping
The 2018 winter storms exposed an expansive and blindingly obvious glacial outcropping by the footbridge side of Good Harbor Beach near the piping plover enclosure. In 2017 the feature was something more than a rock and I don’t mean scale. After two severe thunderstorms on July 8, 2017, one chick remained and the family acted strange. One of the parent plovers perched atop that rock for my entire shift, seemingly in mourning. The rock was a sheltering spot and helpful monitor landmark which it still is this year. This summer the rock revealed itself like a tip of an iceberg, and made Good Harbor Beach resemble a bit of Wingaersheek.
Here are a few Before (2017) and After (2018) comparisons. The photographs illustrate how much dry sand disappeared and how the beach was basically scrubbed of any scrub.
he’s 6′ to give you idea of scale
Wingaersheek Beach January 2018
reposting as I had some trouble uploading photos (prior)
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Good Harbor Beach storm damage erosion unearths a massive glacial outcropping
The 2018 winter storms exposed an expansive and blindingly obvious glacial outcropping by the footbridge side of Good Harbor Beach near the piping plover enclosure. In 2017 the feature was something more than a rock and I don’t mean scale. After two severe thunderstorms on July 8, 2017, one chick remained and the family acted strange. One of the parent plovers perched atop that rock for my entire shift, seemingly in mourning. The rock was a sheltering spot and helpful monitor landmark which it still is this year. This summer the rock revealed itself like a tip of an iceberg, and made Good Harbor Beach resemble a bit of Wingaersheek.
Here are a few Before (2017) and After (2018) comparisons. The photographs illustrate how much dry sand disappeared and how the beach was basically scrubbed of any scrub.
lonely little scrub
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Shoring up the Long Beach seawall: readying concrete forms and walkway
Phases of storm repair continue.
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Congratulations Tridents G6 Gloucester FYS and good luck today!
Tridents G6 Fishermen Youth Soccer, U12 Division 1
Tridents travel to Pingree for the Essex County Youth Soccer Association (ECYSA) Championships today.
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Scenes from Flag Day at Gloucester MA Elks Lodge #892 from Mayor Romeo Theken
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Ah! fun supplies for Sawyer Free Children’s Library
Fun! Special delivery donation for Sawyer Free Children’s library from good egg, Ellen B
Good Morning Gloucester 