Good Morning Gloucester

Navy Band Northeast Pops Ensemble to Perform in Rockport

The Navy Band Northeast Pops Ensemble will perform a free concert at the Rockport High School, 24 Jerden’s Lane, Rockport, MA at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, July 12^th. Tickets will be available Saturday, July 27^th at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 24 Broadway, Rockport, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and at the Rockport Police Station, 168 Main Street, Tuesday, July 30^th, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. There is a limit of four tickets per person while tickets last. The concert is part of the Rockport Navy Weekend, July 10^th – 12^th, organized by the Rockport Navy Committee. For more information got to http://www.rocnavcom.org.

The Navy Band Northeast Pops Ensemble is comprised of thirty-five talented musicians from around the country and provides musical entertainment for audiences of all ages. The versatility of this group allows it to play a wide variety of musical styles, including classical, patriotic, contemporary, big band, country and popular hits of today.

Navy Band Northeast was established in 1974, and is one of eleven official bands of the United States Navy worldwide. Under the direction of Lieutenant Gregory Fritz, the band is attached to the Naval War College at the Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island, and serves the military and civilian communities throughout the Northeastern United States.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Sharon

Sharon Grandmaison
Rockport Navy Committee

The First Baptist Church in Gloucester, located at 38 Gloucester Ave. will move to a summer worship schedule on Sunday, June 28. Beginning that day, worship will take place at 9:30am. Upcoming events include our church picnic, which will follow worship on July 19, and worship on the lawn on Sundays, July 26 and August 23. The First Baptist Church is a church in the American Baptist tradition and all are welcome to join us. We look forward to meeting you!

Thank you,

Mark Spreer

Good afternoon,

Essex Heritage is extremely excited to announce that we will offer public access to Bakers Island Light Station for first time in seventy years! This summer, Essex Heritage will be hosting escorted, guided boat tours aboard landing craft, Naumkeag, to Bakers Island Light Station, for up to 18 passengers, July 1 through September 7 (Labor Day). The full press release is included below and attached to this email.

Additionally, we would like to invite the press to the ribbon cutting for our new landing-craft, Naumkeag! We hope that you will join us to celebrate launching this exciting new adventure for residents and visitors in the region!

DATE:  Tuesday, June 30, 2015

TIME: 11 AM ribbon cutting celebration with brief remarks made by Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll and Essex Heritage CEO Annie Harris.

LOCATION:  Salem Ferry dock at 10 Blaney Street, Salem, MA 01970 (two blocks past the House of the Seven Gables).  There is free, on site public parking available.

Please RSVP to join us! Kindly RSVP by June 29 by contacting Meredith George by phone 978-740-0444 or email MeredithG@essexheritage.org. 

Cape Ann TV (www.capeanntv.org), a non-profit community access cable station serving Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Essex, invites you to our upcoming Annual Meeting event, taking place at Cape Ann Television (38 Blackburn Center, Gloucester, MA 01930) on Thursday, June 25th at 7pm. 

This year’s keynote speaker is Mary Alice Crim, Field Director at Free Press. Free Press is a fantastic organization that advocates for individual’s rights to connect and communicate. 

Mary Alice led the campaign to stop the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger and participates in ongoing campaign and policy initiatives through outreach, organizing and public education activities. She develops, plans and runs Free Press events like the National Conference for Media Reform and leads the organization’s member-engagement work. She also serves on the board of Northampton Community Television.

She will be covering the future of the Internet, how broadcast and broadband will merge, and the importance of people power in media.

Also at this year’s event, Senator Bruce Tarr will be receiving the Legislator of the Year award for his continued support of Cape Ann Television and the values of community access television.

Delicious food will be provided by Wally’s Blackburn Bistro. 

It’s sure to be a fun, informative event. Seating is limited so please RSVP to rtober@capeanntv.org.

Thank you and we hope to see you there!