Holy Family Summer Plant Sale Coming Up Soon

Save the date for the Holy Family Spring Plant and Bake Sale:

Memorial Day Cemetery Baskets
Now Accepting Orders
Pick Up on May 24th

In prayerful preparation for Memorial Day Weekend, Our Lady’s Guild and the Holy Family Women’s Guild are working together with Cressey & Sons in Rowley to offer Memorial Day baskets in honor of our fallen heroes. A donation of $30 each is requested for each one of these beautifully decorated log shaped baskets.

We are now accepting orders! Baskets can be picked up on Saturday, May 24th from 9:00am until 1:00pm at the Spring Plant & Bake Sale (see above). To place an order, please contact Celia Gray at 978-281-2072; Jane Marshall at 978-283-5111; or Beth Fosberry at 978-790-0196. As always, thank you for your generous support!

Good Morning Gloucester Best Bar Staff ’25 Final Four Voting Is Open!!! It’s The Lobster Of Gloucester vs Machaca and Seaport Grille vs Saltwater Grille!!!



Link to vote: Once you go here you click start voting button at the top!

Surfside Subs and Pizza Friday 5/16

𝓣𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂’𝓼 𝓢𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵𝓼

🍕Buy any 18” Pizza get an 18” Cheese for $5

🍕Buy any 16” Pizza get a 16” Cheese for $5

🍕Half off any 18 Inch pizza

(Pizza deals cannot be combined)

🎉Additional Specials for today!

🦞$19.99 Lobster Rolls

🍔 $4.99 cheeseburgers w/ Chips & Pickles

The Gloucester Housing Authority 2025 calendar of upcoming classes and workshops

 

The weekend workshops allow graduates to access Mass Housing and Mass Housing Partnership loans with little money down, help with closing cost & reduced interest rates.

 

Thank you for considering.

 

 

Best,

Mary Matthews

 

Home Ownership Coordinator

Gloucester Housing Authority

978-281-4770 Ext. 110

259 Washington Street

Gloucester, MA  01930

My work hours are Monday-Thursday 9-2

 

Bocce

Bocce. These bocce courts were such a wonderful addition to our beautiful boulevard. My father built a bocce ball court in his yard years ago. When these courts were first built we would meet my dad down there every so often to play. It made me smile to watch these guys enjoying the courts last night.

Opsrey Nest Update!

Many of you are aware there’s an osprey nest in the marsh behind Lobsta Land that has live-cam coverage (link here). I check on the famous osprey pair Annie and Squam regularly and appreciate that the Essex Greenbelt has this available to the public. I further appreciate Dave Rimmer’s blog updates. Thanks to Dave and the live coverage, I can report that Annie and Squam are tending to 3 eggs which are expected to hatch around June 8-10. There have been reports of a second male hanging around which is not welcome company but I haven’t observed that yet.

I did get to catch what was likely the “changing of the guard” yesterday afternoon with one adult sitting on the nest as the other fed a short distance away. The sitting adult left briefly but before too long, the feeding adult brought food to the second adult and a feast was had. I got a quick look at the eggs which maybe you can see here in the screenshots taken from the Essex Greenbelt camera.

Ladies and gentleman please welcome Dave Jewell’s new lobster and charter boat the Lady J II

@ladyj.charters. She’s beefy and quick! Dave is an incredible machinist so we’re looking forward to seeing the finishing touches he puts on her. She already looks pretty slick in my eyes. Nice clean lines. Lots of deck space. Really happy for Dave and Zach. He deserves to be comfortable in his old age 😆. Go get ‘em Dave 🦞 🐟

Great Whale Watches — pat morss

Since Cape Ann’s whale watch season has begun, I thought I would share some of our past experiences.

‘Puck’ was a favorite in 1982 – named for the hockey stick on his tail fluke.
Nose-to-nose. “Why do you call me Puck”?
Checking us out at close quarters, and diving under the boat.
Capt Fred Douglass founded the local whale watch industry in 1979.
It’s special seeing humbacks feed, using their baleen as a sieve, 1983.
Not every whale watch ends well. The newest ‘Daunty’ burned and sank in 1997.
Whales slap their flippers to communicate, and to wave us goodbye, 2006.
Humpbacks breaching totally out of water is thrilling to see, 2006.
In 2013 we had an experimental ferry from Gloucester to Provincetown.
With whale watching in both directions on Stellwagen Bank. More feeding.
Ocean Alliance introduced their ‘SnotBot’ technology in 2016; Dr Iain Kerr holds the drone.
The whales were close, so our harbor cruise turned into a surprise whale watch.
The easiest whale watch is viewed from our house, this time in 2020.
Today’s whale ambassadors are Cape Ann Whale Watch and 7 Seas Whale Watch.

Spring and flowers

Walking Shore Road on Tuesday late afternoon was so nice.  The flowers are blooming, and sun did not go down until almost 8:00.

Thank you to the Downtown Merchants who participated in the Mother’s Day Stroll

What a fun way to go and check out Gloucester’s Main Street.   We are very lucky to have such wonderful stores to do our everyday and special shopping and eating.  Very grateful and excited that I won the grand prize.  $300.00 of gift cards.

Nelsons, Fireflies, Pat D’s photos, 44, Main Street, GMG, Design of Mine, Sample This, Machaca, Salon Amara, Toodeloos, Happy Tales, Cafe Bischo, Shore Nutrition

Thank you, Joey and Good Morning Gloucester, for your Podcast announcing the winners and prompting this great event.  Shopping local is the BEST.

 

 

This Weekend! Funky Art Sale Returns to 26 Highland St. in Gloucester.

Funky Art Sale Returns to 26 Highland St. in Gloucester.

Sat. 5/17 10am- 6pm

Sun. 5/18 10am- 6pm

Over 100 paintings on display in the yard and for sale. 

All are welcome!

Loren Doucette Studio 

at Cripple Cove Studios

97 East Main St. Gloucester, Ma 01930

(978)-879-6588

www.lorendoucetteart.com