Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM at Tonno Gloucester

Join Discover Gloucester for its Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon onThursday, November 6, 2025, at Tonno Gloucester. This annual event spotlights the leaders who elevate Gloucester’s visitor economy and celebrates the people and partnerships that make our city a dynamic, year-round destination.

Guests will enjoy a seasonal lunch by Tonno, network with local partners, and hear quick updates on Discover Gloucester’s initiatives and the economic impact of tourism, arts, and culture across the community.

“This event is a celebration of Gloucester’s creative energy and collaborative spirit,” said Amanda Pollock, Executive Director of Discover Gloucester. “Each year we honor those who go above and beyond to make Gloucester welcoming, vibrant, and strong.”

This year’s Award Recipients are:
Exceptional Service Award Laura Dow, The Vista Motel
Cultural Heritage Award Caleb McMurphy, Hammond Castle Museum
Harbor of Learning Award Justin Demetri
Outstanding Appreciation AwardRingo Tarr
Tobin Dominick Award Michael De Koster

Event Schedule:
11:30 AM Registration
11:45 AM Annual Meeting
12:00 PM Lunch
12:15 PM Awards Presentation
1:30 PM Program Concludes

Tickets are $60 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Open seating. Please share any dietary needs in advance at amanda@discovergloucester.com. 

Menu: Seasonal lunch by Tonno featuring salad, entrée, dessert, coffee, and tea. Vegetarian and gluten-free options available upon request.Register athttps://resy.com/cities/boston-ma/venues/tonno-gloucester/events/discover-gloucester-2025-11-06.

𝓣𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂’𝓼 𝓢𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵𝓼
🍕Buy any 18” Pizza get an 18” Cheese for $5
🍕Buy any 16” Pizza get a 16” Cheese for $5

🎉Additional Specials for today!
🦞$13.99 Lobster Rolls
🍔 $4.99 cheeseburgers w/ Chips & Pickles

ALSO FOR LONG BEACH DAIRY 🍦

🚨🚨🚨Half Off Special for 10/24🚨🚨🚨
Vermont Maple Cremee
Sprinkled with Maple Sugar
and
Pumpkin Soft Serve
🍁🍦🎃🍦

Half off only on these two flavors for soft serve, special subject to change

Let us do the heavy lifting this year so you can relax and enjoy your Thanksgiving Dinner time with your family and friends either here or at home. You have more choices with Castle Manor Inn to have your Thanksgiving Dinner the way you want it.

This year we are adding Chef Dan’s amazing Seafood Tetrazzini and Balsamic Glazed Roasted Brussels Sprouts to our Buffet Menu, a new Herb-Crusted Prime Rib Dinner To Go and bringing back our Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner To Go. Attached are the 3 menus we are proudly offering this year for Thanksgiving.

Make your reservation today! This is our biggest event of the year and typically sells out fast so please don’t wait. 

Call us at 978-515-7386 to make your reservations. 
 

We look forward to hearing from you and helping to make your Thanksgiving a pleasingly memorable and delightfully delicious day!

Warm regards,

Castle Manor Inn

141 Essex Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-515-7386
info@castlemanorinn.com

Pre-ordering is live at http://www.saltysbagels.com 🥯👻

We’ll be open this Saturday & Sunday 8:00 am – 11 am or sellout at 1 Whistlestop Mall in Rockport.
BAGEL OF THE WEEK: Jalapeño Cheddar

Happy Halloween! This Sunday, October 26 from 3 – 5 pm we’ll be handing out “kiddie” plain bagels to Trick or Treaters. Let us known if you’ll be stopping by! https://www.facebook.com/share/1APe3kdhBL/

loveourcustomers #bagels #coffee #schmears #lox #capeann #rockportma #gloucesterma #essexma #manchesterbythesea #farmersmarkets #goodmorninggloucester

I wonder if you recognize this Main St location in Gloucester? It’s a glorious display of the range of fall colors we enjoy in the northeast.

Good Morning Rockland…

Event Details

Special opening performance by THE NERVOUS EATERS 

Boston Film Premiere Event!

Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Vincent Straggas presents his latest feature length documentary, Life On The Other Planet.

Featuring The Music of: Willie Alexander, The Real Kids, The Nervous Eaters, The Neighborhoods, Rick Berlin, Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, The Atlantics, The Stompers, The Jon Butcher Axis, Classic Ruins, Pastiche, Girls Night Out, The Neats, DMZ, Thundertrain, Human Sexual Response, Mission of Burma, Unnatural Axe, Modern Lovers, The Inflicktors, The Lyres, and The Bristols.

SEAT PRICES
General Admission:  $25
Seniors (62+):  $22
Veterans:  $20
Patron- and Director-level Members:  $20
Producer-level Members: FREE
BECOME A MEMBER TODAY

General Information and Policies

Time

October 24, 20257:30 pm(GMT-04:00)

Location

Regent Theatre

7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA 02474

Member Showcase is Rocky Neck Art Colony’s final exhibition of the season featuring seven distinctive bodies of work by RNAC members – John Bassett, Michelle Champion, Eser Costanza, Joanne Hurd, Patricia Scialo, Brian Murphy, R. D. Murphy – selected by juror Shana Dumont Garr.

Dumont Garr selected works that “possess remarkable vibrancy of color, composition, and method. Some of this vibrancy emerges through palette and medium; others through a sense of whimsy or the handmade.” This exhibition celebrates artistic excellence and innovation across a wide range of media and subjects. By featuring more work from fewer artists, Member Showcase invites viewers to engage more deeply with each artist’s vision and process.

The public is invited to celebrate Member Showcase at the Opening Reception on October 26, 4-6pm. View the art, meet the artists, and enjoy light refreshments and lively conversation.

R. D. Murphy, Cranberry Highway Starts Here; Patricia Scialo, Still Life in Blue With Lace; Joanne Hurd, Pretty Bug Dance; Michelle Champion, Winter Sun; John Bassett, X Acerbate

𝓣𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂’𝓼 𝓢𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵𝓼
🍕Buy any 18” Pizza get an 18” Cheese for $5
🍕Buy any 16” Pizza get a 16” Cheese for $5

🎉Additional Specials for today!
🦞$13.99 Lobster Rolls
🍔 $4.99 cheeseburgers w/ Chips & Pickles

ALSO FOR LONG BEACH DAIRY 🍦

🚨🚨🚨Half Off Special for 10/23🚨🚨🚨
Vermont Maple Cremee
Sprinkled with Maple Sugar
and
Pumpkin Soft Serve
🍁🍦🎃🍦

Half off only on these two flavors for soft serve, special subject to change

Help us move this Saturday!

The IDRC is planning to haul the two practice boats this Saturday, October 25, 2025 at11 AM (due to high tide) and we need your help.  The more people we get to help the faster it goes.  Please meet at the heritage center at 11:00 am.  Give us an hour or two to haul the practice dories (Heritage Center) and bring them to Erik’s property to be cleaned up and repainted.  Anyone with an available trailer please let me know.  We have one trailer currently and need a bunch of help.  Please lend a hand this Saturday.   

Next Saturday November 1st we are going to put the practice boats back in the water for the winter.  Also, we will haul the race boats.  We will do this at the heritage center at 9 AM Saturday November 1st.  We will send another message next week.  Thank you.  


Hope to see you all there!
IDRC Board

I am hoping to get myself on one of these trips before the close of the season. Maybe I will see you there! Check them out here: Dodge St Essex.

Buy any quarter zip or jacket get a free item out of the bin. There are select hats, coozie sets and SPF shirts in the bin. Every jacket or quarter zip purchase gets a free bin item. You can always DM me for specific size questions. Will have some some limited XXL and XXXL sizes too!

@patdsphotos will be at @capeannchamber Clam Fest in Essex Saturday so be sure to go visit the Birthday girl at her tent!

Shop online here- https://gloucesterapparel.square.site/

Congratulations Sam!

Oak To Ember 9 Rogers Street Gloucester Ma

Happy Hour…

Show Dates:
October 24 – November 16, 2025 

Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 25, 4-6pm 

Artists Gallery Talk:
Saturday, November 8, 4pm

Next up on the COSMOS Gallery walls, Nella De Luca Lush and Steve Lush — two celebrated artists with uniquely captivating portfolios of work. And yes, partners for life, working in individual artistic directions.  
 

Nella De Luca Lush 
Nella was raised in Southern Italy and paints with a color palette and surface textures that suggest classical influences. And yet, her compositions are elegantly contemporary, distilled into the essence of shapes and elements. Nella describes her genre as “representational abstract” art, blending hints of reality with the freedom of self-expression. Nella Lush 

Nella’s work has been recognized by prestigious art organizations. She is a signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the National Association of Women Artists, where she founded the Massachusetts Chapter. Her art is part of collections worldwide and has been exhibited at venues such as the Noyes Museum of Contemporary Art, Mystic Seaport Maritime Gallery, and Whistler House Museum. Nella is represented by White Room Gallery in NY, Centre Street Gallery in Nantucket, Cortile Gallery in Provincetown, and Thornhill Gallery in NH. 

Steve Lush 
Steve acquired an early joy of drawing from the cartoon works of Saul Steinberg in the New Yorker magazine. His subsequent passion for art blossomed in many different mediums. He was drawn to the world of model ship building, and explored watercolors, oils, collage, mixed media and welded steel sculpture. Each medium became a steppingstone in his evolution as an artist. Steve Lush  

Steve is a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA), the New England Watercolor Society (NEWS), and the New England Sculptors Association (NESA). Steve’s art is part of many private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Italy, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Museum of America and the Sea, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT., the Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP), The Heritage Asset Collection at the Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT. ,the Noble Maritime Museum, Staten Is., NY., and the Customs House Maritime Museum, Newburyport, MA. 

The artists share a gallery in SoWa, 450 Harrison, Boston MA. 

An Ongoing Dialogue Exhibition 

The COSMOS Gallery exhibition will feature a wide selection of artworks by the two artists, representing their evolution over the years. The range will include large oil paintings along with more modestly priced works on paper. The COSMOS Gallery show is their first joint exhibition in many years.  

COSMOS Gallery, Gloucester 

COSMOS Gallery opened February 2025, with frequent exhibitions for mostly regional artists and no constraints on aesthetic genres. The gallery is an extension on the Cape Ann COSMOS media platform and mission to enrich the good cultural life!  

COSMOS Gallery 
20 Pleasant Street 
Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930 

www.cosmos-gallery.com

Pat thanks for keeping us all in line and being the voice of reason on the podcast. We love you