What’s Going on at the Sawyer Free Library in April? Find out in THE SAWYER

Sawyer Free Library's avatarCape Ann Community

Check out THE SAWYER: the monthly newsletter of the Sawyer Free Library to learn all that is going at the Sawyer Free Library in APRIL!

Registration for all virtual events can be found atsawyerfreelibrary.orgon the calendar. Links will be emailed to join each event.

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Webinar- A Call to Artists: Climate Change, Environment and the Arts In Our Community

Cape Ann Climate Coalition's avatarCape Ann Community

What is the role of the artist when when faced with the climate crisis? This webinar produced by the Cape Ann Coalitionโ€™s Climate Arts Group explores the artistโ€™s role. It begins by celebrates the life and vision of the late Rockport artist and environmental activist Elaine MacGray Starrett with a video โ€œWithout Just Groundsโ€, featuring Elaine reflecting on her โ€œdeep concern for the protection of open space and natural resourcesโ€ and the series of paintings that she created in response to her concerns. Following the screening, Starrettโ€™s daughter, Dr. Amy Bower, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is joined in a lively conversation about art, science and climate change, with Cape Ann environmental 3-D artist Sinikka Nogelo and the nationally-known public artist Mags Harries.

If you would like to volunteer to fight climate change on Cape Ann, please visit our website and contact us. www.capeannclimatecoalition.org. We haveโ€ฆ

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Just Upgraded The GloucesterCast Camera Lens To The Sigma 16mm 1.4

Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary Lens for Sony E

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Mile Marker Igloo Fee Waived for Breakfast and Lunch Wednesday-Friday

Here’s a great deal for you as advertised on Instagram and other social media for the Mile Marker Igloos: igloo fee waived for breakfast or lunch Wednesday-Friday. Reserve your igloo online

Sugar Moon over City Hall

After a long day of work, a quick stop for a phenomenal Good Morning Gloucester burger at Beauport’s 1606 and then the evening sports shuffle, I was on the go from 7:00 am to 9:15 last night. When I saw how beautiful the moon looked rising over City Hall I wanted to go for a ride and capture it, but decided to head home instead. So, I was happy to look out my bedroom window and see, in the distance, both the moon and City Hall.

Great Dinner at Fox Creek Tavern

We rode over to High Street in Ipswich to have dinner at the Fox Creek Tavern, which has become one of our favorite spots. It was a quiet dinner hour there and Michael was our server (great job Michael!). The atmosphere is cozy and friendly, seating appropriately distanced, varied menu choices are available. They always have very interesting drink and entree specials available.

I chose a margarita with cherries added….BOY was that good! Nice and tart just the way I prefer. Our friend manager Cecilia and I are going to have a conversation about that wonderful cocktail!!! Jim ordered fried pickles and I had French Onion soup prior to our meal. The cilantro lemon chicken tacos were a FANTASTIC blend of flavors and textures. I believe it was listed as a new menu item. Jim had the Reuben sandwich. We were very happy with our meals once again. Fox Creek Tavern has not failed us once! Highly recommended, well worth the ride.

There May Or May Not Have Been A Sugo Theft When The McCarthy Ciaramitaro Group Dropped Off GMG Tipsy Seagull Ice Cream At Madam Mayor’s Crib

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No Job is too Big or too Small

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Itโ€™s time to start your spring cleaning here in New England and there is no job too big or too small for Atlantic Power Cleaning. We provide exterior HOT water pressure washing with a specially formulated shampoo mixture to guarantee first-rate results. Whether itโ€™s your home, business, pool deck, patio, garage bay, heavy equipment โ€“ we do it all!

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How Your CBD is Made IS IMPORTANT!

Angel Wings Wellness's avatarCape Ann Wellness

Northeast Kingdom Hemp prides itself in practicing sustainable organic farming that produces the healthiest and most precise small-batch CBD possible. From soil to oil all of our CBD oil is grown directly on our farm. Using state of the art in-house extraction methods we then produce the cleanest, highest quality, oils.

All Northeast Kingdom Hemp products are available right here in Gloucester!!! Come chat with us at Angel Wings Wellness 12 Rogers Street, next to the St Peters Club, see you soon!

SMALL BATCH C02 EXTRACTION

Our in-house small batch C02 Extraction techniques capture the full power of hemp in every bottle. Our attention to quality yields CBD oils that are pure, great tasting, and teeming with naturally occurring phytocannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids that are largely lost with more large scale industrial extraction methods.

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More Courtship on Niles Pond — pat morss

We got to watch some of the action before the Northeast Storm hit yestarday afternoon.

The Bufflehead guys weren’t having much success with this female
Merganser – maybe I’ll sneak up on her
Nice choreography, but no interest
A couple of Mallards trying different approaches
In any case, don’t make the women mad
Or this will happen
This Mallard has her attention
Perfect execution
Looks like it worked
The birds and the bees are everywhere

Spring 2021 Downtown

Fellow Gloucester Merchants, 

I want to share with you what is happening this spring in our downtown.

  1. 2121 New Floral Beautification initiatives for downtown.  Generous Gardner’s was the recipient of the most recent award from the 100 Women Who Care Cape Ann organization.  Congrats to Generous  Gardeners! 

           The $11,500 donation will support a new hanging basket program on Main Street with self-watering baskets that can hold 2 gallons of water with each watering.  The group has also purchased self-watering inserts for the existing ground planters, with the addition of four new ground planters for the upper end of Main Street.  New watering tanks will allow volunteers to water the baskets from their vehicles.  The plan this year is to  install 27 baskets from Tonno to Sage Floral.  

The donation is still not enough to cover the cost of the Beautification Initiatives for 2021.  We are asking our fellow business owners to help out with a donation to the program.  Gloucester and downtown are very  fortunate to have a group like Generous Gardner’s volunteering to make Gloucester more welcoming with the beauty of flowers.  Please contact Susan Kelly at  susan@generousgardeners.org to make a donation.

 2.  The second item I want to share is Parson Street.  As you know Parson Street is a small street in between  the Dress Code and the Mermaid shop.  The city has won a grant to make Parson Street a more walking friendly, ADA approved entrance to Main Street from Rogers Street.  Plans call for new street paving and sidewalks, new lighting, and possible a pedestrian sign that lights up on Rogers Street.  Parson Street will become a pedestrian  connector from I4C2 parking and downtown.  Completion is expected before May 31 of 2021.  A great improvement for downtown.  Thank you to our Mayor and Jill Cahill from Community development for making the grant possible.  

3. The third item I want to bring forward is the city is in the process of permitting outside dining once again this year.  If you want to do outside dining and serve alcohol once again, you need to talk to the Building Inspector Billl Sanborn .  Bill will guide you thought the process.  It is my understanding that the city is going to expand out door dining for this summer.  
If you have suggestions on how outdoor dining can be improved on Main Stress now is the time to add to the conversation.  

 4. The last item I have is the Sidewalk Bazaar.  We are hoping to have it once again in some form in August.  If the state opens up events like ours than we will move forward.  For now we are in a wait and see mode

Thank You   
Joe Ciolino
Director GMA