The Bookstore of Gloucester has a wonderful selection of spring-themed children’s books. Having fun with baby granddaughter Charlotte on the way!
HALEY BAKER AT TURTLE ALLEY IS ROCKING THE CHOCOLATE MAKING (AS USUAL!)
Saturday afternoon and Haley is working like mad to fill everyone’s Easter basket. She has so much finesse and makes it all look so easy. I’m a messy cook and would after only a few minutes be covered in chocolate. Not such a bad thing, though.
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White Chocolate Turtles
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Caramel Choclate Nonpareils
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HELLO! YOU CAN WIN THIS GINORMOUS EASTER EGG!
Caffe Sicilia is raffling tickets for an enormous Easter egg. The funds raised are going towards autism. Did I mention the egg is DARK chocolate 🙂
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Yummy blueberry pie from classic cooks
Donna Ardizzoni / Circle Consulting Group 978-526-9222
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Visitors from Maine
Visiting Gloucester to buy bait to go fishing.
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Osprey Standing Watch At The Naples Pier
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New hobby anyone?
OK kids…anyone up for a new hobby? If I didn’t have such a love-hate relationship with flying insects (they love me, I hate them) I would be all over this. If this is up your alley, the folks at Harvest Lane Honey whose products are for sale at the Building Center have some great How-To videos to check out. Happy Honey Making! 
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Delta Terminal and Dunks
I’d like either Cape Ann Coffee or Lone Gull or Willow Rest To Open Up At Logan. Please and Thank You.
So we get through the TSA screeners and inside the Delta Terminal. With the 2:45AM wake up time a Kate and I were looking forward to a coffee. Her order- Iced French Vanilla. She heads to the gate with the two youngest, and my oldest The Bean stays back to get coffees with me.
There’s about six or seven dining options including Fresh City Wraps, Friendlies, Dunks and some burrito place, all serving breakfast. Line at Dunks is 40 deep. Biggest line at the other spots is 3 people max.
I go to Fresh City Wraps because they are serving breakfast and ask for an iced coffee, they say they don’t have iced coffee. They’re serving coffee. They have ice. But they won’t sell me an iced coffee.
Go to the next stall, the Burrito place which is also open, serving breakfast. “Can I get an iced coffee?”
“No, we don’t sell iced coffee.”
But they’ve got coffee, and they’ve got mountains of ice.”
They just won’t put the ice in the coffee and take my money completing the transaction like a normal business would.
We all know and have become accustomed to getting ass raped by shtty airport food pricing not to mention shitty airport food, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why in the world the management of these chains have decided that it’s a good business decision to not take my money for stuff they have at their fingertips even when they could have porked me at overpriced airport pricing.
Meanwhile at the very next stall to the Burrito place Dunks has a line 40 deep and they are twiddling their thumbs at Fresh City Wraps and The Burrito place.
Only thing I could think of was that maybe Dunks has a deal where only they and Starbucks can sell Iced coffee? Could that be? Otherwise the management at Fresh City Wraps and the Burrito place need to be fired immediately for not offering overpriced airport iced coffee when they sell coffee and have ice.
Am I crazy for thinking this is crazy?
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Tulip Fest Event Info From Mayor Sefatia
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THE LONG BEACH DAIRY MAID IS OPEN!
The Long Beach Dairy Maid has reopened for the season and Frank, who runs both the Long Beach Dairy Maid and SurfSide Subs, says that SurfSide Subs is reopening on Thursday. Visit their website here. Did you know you can order from SurfSide Subs online? Or call 978-281-1700.
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Early morning from Black Beach
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In the news: Congratulations Kurt Lichtenwald for leading Gloucester High School robotics and engineering program and students to another recognition–this one national! And those smart Monnells…
Well deserved. See wonderful story by Ray Lamont in today’s Gloucester Daily Times: GHS Engineering program wins national award, Photo by Mike Springer shows Kurt with students Austin Monnell and Conor Williamson.
NATIONAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
TEACHER EXCELLENCE AWARD
It’s close to Kurt’s 20th anniversary at Gloucester High School. Here’s a throwback photo I took in February 2012 at East Gloucester Elementary. Kurt brought the high school students in to the elementary school to lead science and robotic stations for all the kids. He told me then about his approach:
“For too long; students who could memorize facts were considered highly intelligent. In my classes students must learn to apply the knowledge and prove that they learned the topics. This is a different kind of intelligence (kinesthetic – hands on intelligence) that for so long has gone unappreciated and unrecognized. Mixing the two types of intelligences (multi level) in a class just makes common sense and great products (student work).”-Kurt Lichtenwald
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Meredith Glaser Plum Cove Grind thanks her customers and best wishes for The Cove Cafe
The cozy business at 1064 Washington Street in the heart of Lanesville keeps pumping with a new name and owner, Alisha Clayton. Plum Cove Grind is now The Cove Cafe.
Mary is there early baking all the morning goodies.
Grab a coffee and stay an extra moment to meet with Ward 4 City Councilor, Val Gilman, most every Friday morning. Chief McCarthy might be there as well.
And for those wondering about former Plum Cove Grind owner, Meredith Glaser, she writes about her next chapter:
“All is very ok! Plum Cove Grind was a “life style” business. It allowed me to stay close and raise my kids and provide a nice business for the community and beyond( we had a lot of people from all over the world). Thanks to so many great customers.
After 11 years in business, my kids are all grown up so I had decided to look for a buyer.
The buyers were local people (Yay!), and I think they will do well. I’m thinking they will keep the great coffee and lattes and offering of yummy goods. So stay in touch, I’m certain it will be exciting to see what they do.
Say hi to Joey for me.”- Meredith Glaser
The Cove Cafe entrance April 2017. A new custom sign for the business is coming.
The Cove Cafe April 2017
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Gloucester Smiles-569
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Sawyer Free Library, Week of April 16-22
The Sawyer Free Library will be CLOSED on Monday, April 17 for Patriots’ Day.
APRIL IS FOOD FOR FINES
Bring in your donation of non perishable foods during the month of April and the Sawyer Free Library will waive your fines (sorry this does not apply to lost or damaged items).
SUBMIT YOUR GLOUCESTER PHOTOS FOR THE 2017 ‘WHERE IS IT?‘ EXHIBITION IN THE MATZ GALLERY
CELEBRATE POETRY MONTH!
LEARN HOW TO USE THE LIBRARY’S E-RESOURCES
Get the most out of your library experience! These Technology Seminars will teach you about many of the valuable library tools available to you. Please register as space is limited! 
VACATION WEEK CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS!
SAVE THE DATE!
THE FRIENDS OF THE SAWYER FREE LIBRARY BOOKSALE IS COMING UP IN MAY. WE ARE STILL GLADLY ACCEPTING YOUR NEW AND GENTLY USED BOOKS AND DVDs
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John Todd Represents In Puerto Rico
Hey Joey, the wife and I are on vacation in Puerto Rico and today we visited the island of Caja de Muertos off of Ponce, PR. Ferry to get there, great place!!Wanted to represent GMG, wore the hat and shirt but dropped the sticker, which we then found 2 hours later on the pier going back to the boat!!! Can’t keep GMG down!!!
See you soon,
John Todd
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SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 4TH ANNUAL ROCKY NECK 5K!
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BREAKING: RARE RIGHT WHALE CALF FOUND DEAD
A female two- to three-month-old rare North Atlantic Right Whale calf was found dead in Cape Cod Bay on Thursday. She was one of only four calves born this year to a species in sharp decline. Researchers and whale lovers are especially distressed that the calf was a female, as they are the future of the population.
The calf was found north of Barnstable and was towed to Sesuit Harbor. Cause of death is unknown and a necropsy is planned.
As you may or may not have been following, there have been a record number of Right Whales currently making their home in the waters off Cape Cod, not because there are more whales, but because of the wealth of zooplankton. Each spring, Right Whales return to Cape Cod to feed on tiny crustaceans such as krill. Right Whales are the rarest of all large whale species, with only approximately 500 known world wide. They are endangered for several reasons. Right Whales never fully recovered from being heavily hunted during the whaling era. They have a high blubber content, which makes them float when killed, and produce a high yield of whale oil. Secondly, because they feed slowly by skimming at the photic zone of the ocean, at the upper surface of the water, they are vulnerable to ship strikes and to becoming entangled in fishing gear.
The best place too see Right Whales at this time of year is from Cape Cod beaches, according to Charles “Stormy” Mayo, director of the Right Whale Ecology Program at the Center for Coastal Studies. They may be as close as 150 feet from the shore, which is closer than can be seen from research boats.
Photo courtesy CapeCod.com
GMG FOB Dave Moore shares the following from National Geographic. The recent article (March 10) is very interesting and relevant: “How Many Right Whales Do We Miss.”
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SPRING CLASSES AT CALVO WOOD STUDIO
Good Morning Gloucester 