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Gloucester Family and Friends Night This Thursday Night (Retailers send me your announcements and I’ll add them)
Big weekend here- HUGE weekend here in G Town! Thursday Night Family and Friends Night downtown, Friday Night The GMG Holiday Party, Saturday The Middle Street Walk and Lobster Trap Tree Buoy Painting and Lighting. That’s a perfect frickin trifecta of awesomeness right there baby!!!!
As more of our local merchants submit their plans I’ll add them to this post for handy reference on what to do and where to go.
Hopefully Fred Bodin will circulate this post to our local merchants so they know to submit stuff to me to add in.
First Up Maritime Gloucester submits-
Maritime Gloucester will be open for Gloucester’s Family & Friends Night this Thursday, 5:00-7:30. Bring the whole family! We’ll have a craft project for the kids and great deals in the shop for everyone. There will be snacks and hot chocolate and lots of good cheer!
Join us for Friends & Family Night
Dear Joey,
Season’s Greetings!
Why shop alone when you can make a night of it with friends and family? ‘Tis what the season is all about!
This Thursday, December 12th from 5pm to 10pm, celebrate the season at Harbor Goods with live music, specials, holiday treats and free wrapping.
Shop small and local in Downtown Gloucester while you enjoy strolling carolers and musicians in a family-friendly and festive Main Street event. The winner of the $1500 Shopping Spree will be drawn during the evening.
Mix, Mingle and Be Merry with the crew at Harbor Goods/Life is good
119 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
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Cape Ann Farmers Market to Host the Winter Solstice Market
What: A special indoor farmers market for holiday shopping
Where: Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, at the corner of Middle and Church Streets
When: December 21th, 2013
Time: 9 am – 12 Noon
Event: Winter Solstice Market.
The Cape Ann Farmers Market will hold a special indoor market for holiday shopping. The market will feature local produce, meat and poultry, crafts, baked goods, pickles, preserves, herbal products, candles, smoked fish, Trupiano sausage, honey, soup, guacamole, pasta, dog treats and more. Gifts for giving and food for the feast will be on sale from local vendors.
The Cape Ann Farmers Market is an independent non-profit, mission-based organization, started by and for the community of Cape Ann, and sustained with one part-time paid employee. It is funded by vendor fees, memberships, donations, and grants. To help underwrite expenses for the Winter Solstice Market, the Cape Ann Farmers Market will sell gently used cookbooks along with Farmer Market merchandise, such as tote bags, t-shirts, and private label organic coffee. Special membership packages will be available, which make great gifts, as do raffle baskets, which will include food and merchandise from Market vendors and area restaurants.
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Gloucester U Launch Information
For Parents:
Gloucester U is an exciting and engaging after school experience that will start this January. Gloucester U has been made possible by the 21st Century Community Learning Center Federal Grant. It is a completely free program for students and includes courses such as cooking, technology, service learning, and more. Attached is a flyer with the January courses.
Come learn more about this program and how it can benefit your child’s education experience to become a life long learner and navigator of the 21st century. There will be an informational meeting this Thursday, December 12 at 5:30 in the GHS library. Please also visit www.gloucesteru.weebly.com for more information.
Best,
Samantha Whitney
swhitney@gloucester.k12.ma.us
Lead Program Coordinator
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Three Days Til The GMG Holiday Party At Bodin Historic Photo!!!! You Better Be There Or I’ll Send Paulie Walnuts For You!!!!
Are You A FOB?
Then you better get your sexy ass down to Bodin Historic Photo For The GMG XMAS Party December 13th! 6PMTil We Burn Down The Neighborhood!
I’m just gonna put this out there that if you consider yourself a FOB you had better show up for our killer OFFICIAL GMG CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!!!!
We’re gonna celebrate it all, Kwanza, spinnin the dradel, all that fun shit!
Dradle Dradle Dradle A Dradle Made Of Clay! Sing It Toby!!!!
GloucesterCast 12/8/13 With Host Joey Ciaramitaro and Guest Toby Pett
Also known as Mr Happypants.
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Christmas In Cape Ann Question From Sarah Smith
Hi Joey C,
I’ve been a subscriber to GMG for about 6 months and thoroughly enjoy the ‘inside scoop’ on all that is going on in the community.
We will be spending our first Christmas in Cape Ann this year and was interested in your readers suggestions for activities that week.
What’s on their top 10 list???????
All the best,
Sarah
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Design of Mine Holiday Open House Wednesday, December 11th at
My neighbor, Melissa Tarr, is having a holiday open house to celebrate her brand new jewelry design business, Design of Mine. The party is this coming Wednesday, December 11th, from 6 pm to 9 pm, at her home located at 19 Plum Street. Her collecion will be available for sale, refreshments served, and everyone is invited! I hope to see you there!
Best wishes for a first great holiday season with your new business Melissa; the first of many seasons yet to come!
Visit Melissa’s website here for more information about Design of Mine.
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Dashing Through The Snow
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Sunset over Kettle Cove Magnolia Harbor
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Artist Spotlight Series – Sinikka Nogelo
Spotlight on Sinikka Nogelo
Gloucester painter Sinikka Nogelo considers herself lucky to work in a studio overlooking Joey C.’s business, Capt. Joe and Sons. “The view is just lovely. I enjoy seeing the activity on the working waterfront, knowing my friendly neighbors are doing so much for the community with Good Morning Gloucester, while supplying us with the freshest lobster, and also supporting the arts. A few years back at Joey’s, one of my favorite art installations featured larger than life, black and white photos of faces of the waterfront. “
Though Sinikka has been most well known locally for her work in community television, art has always played a major part in her life. After graduating from Tufts, she studied at Montserrat with Oliver Balf, Barbara Moody, George Gabin, Roger Martin and Ethan Berry. She also took classes at Silvermine Guild in Connecticut and at the BFA’s Museum School in Boston. As a young artist, she was a founding member of the women’s cooperative “Center and Main Gallery,” located in what is now Passports Restaurant. Sinikka returned to painting full time upon her retirement from Cape Ann TV in 2010.
A member of Rocky Neck Art Colony and the Cape Ann Artisans Studio tour, Sinikka paints contemporary pieces inspired by thoughts and feelings, sea and sky. “I just love color and composition. I get a great deal of satisfaction from the process of making art, just seeing where things will go, experimenting and building on what I’ve made.” In recent years Sinikka has also been creating wall pieces from recyclables and found objects, some of which were on display last summer at the Cape Ann Museum’s White-Ellery House in Sinikka’s installation, “Tin – Relics and Remakes.”
At the Rocky Neck Art Colony’s Holiday Art Festival Sinikka is offering miniature paintings on easels to grace spots such as desks, book shelves and counters, as well as miniature paintings to hang as ornaments. Her paintings have long been influenced by the sea and sky which she uses as subjects and as metaphors. Sinikka loves color and composition and putting that first stroke on a canvas.
You can see more of Sinikka’s work at the Rocky Neck Holiday Art & Fine Crafts Festival (Sat. & Sun. noon – 4:00pm through 12/29) and at the Magnolia Historical Society’s Art in the Schoolhouse Show (Sat. & Sun. 10:00am – 2:00pm through 12/22).
E.J. Lefavour
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Thursday Toy Drive 6AM – 6PM ~ 3 Cape Ann stops with live music ~ Come donate a toy!
Special appearances by Chelsea Berry at the MAC (2 – 3 PM), Alexandra Valenti @ Shalin Liu (3:30 – 4:30 PM) and Allen Estes at Cape Ann Savings Bank (5-6 PM). See full schedule below!
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Wednesday’s with Fly Amero ~ Dan King to host this Wednesday with a tribute to John Lennon. 12.11.2013
Wednesdays Only: Prime Rib, $12.95!
Hello everyone!
Wednesday, December 11th 8-11
Special Guest Host: DAN KING!
Dan King hosts this Wednesday with a tribute to John Lennon,
23 years this month since his passing. My touring takes me
away to Orlando, then Phoenix. But I will be here in spirit.
Thank you, Dan-O! ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
Dave Trooper’s Kitchen…
Prime Rib Special – $12.95 (while they last)
Prepared fresh weekly by “Troop”… always good!
Plus – Check out Fred’s rockin’ new wine menu!
Upcoming…
12/18 – Amero Family Christmas
Looking forward…
…to seeing you there! 🙂 ~ Fly
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Tis The Season For Dinner, Drinks, And Dancing!
The Gloucester Housewives extend an invitation to all! This Saturday evening for a night of Holiday Cheer at Cruisport Gloucester. … Appetizers, Dinner, Dancing and “OPEN BAR” !
Hottest tickets in town !
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How Do You Like Your Nuts? Joey likes his Big and Sweet.
How do like your Nuts?
Hmmmm! Can’t wait to try the Walnuts.
http://thatnuttyredhead.com/products/sample-pack-pecansHow
Open House every weekend till Christmas.
Back by popular request, for many who could not make it, due to other local annual events. Our continued holiday open house is for the next two weekends, Saturday & Sunday, from 12-4 pm. Hope to see you!!!!!
A hot Woman and Tasty Nuts, Merry Christmas
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Off to the Grammy Awards!
Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:43 PM
“Many of you will already have seen on Facebook or Twitter, but I wanted to be in touch directly with you, my friends, to share the exciting news that “Singing Our Way Through” was nominated last night for a Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album of the Year!
We made it this far with the love and support of friends, family and, in the case of the album, an incredibly generous and talented group of musicians, engineers, designers, and other creative people I’m very lucky to know.
As Jane and I walk down the red carpet next month we’ll be thinking about all of that and of all of you who helped us get there. As far as I’m concerned we’ve already won…
Love,
Moock”
http://www.moockmusic.com
http://www.singingourway.com
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Gloucester Getting City-Wide Lighting Upgrade!
Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk is pleased to announce the completion of a four-year, city- wide lighting upgrade that will produce significant energy savings estimated at l.2 million kilowatt hours annually. The upgrades include l8 individual projects in nine municipal buildings and Will result in improved safety and better lighting quality in these buildings.
Gloucester was designated a Green Community by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) in 2010. As part of that designation, DOER provided funding to help the City achieve a 2() percent reduction in municipal energy consumption over five years. The lighting projects are part of that greater five-year energy reduction plan and are projected to reduce the City’s energy consumption by seven percent.
Mayor Kirk stated, “Our community benefits from the clean energy generated by the Wind turbines. Similarly, we all benefit by reducing energy Consumption. It is better for our pocketbooks and for our planet. l am proud of the progress We are making in reducing energy costs While helping to build a sustainable future.”
As a result of Green Community grant funding and use of National Grid incentives, the cost to the City for the lighting projects was 53 percent less than it would have been and resulted in a savings of $710,000.
In addition to the lighting projects, Green Community grant funding has been used to purchase idle reduction technology as part of a pilot project for the city’s vehicle fleet. The goal is to reduce vehicle fuel consumption and emissions. The grant funding is also being used to explore the potential retrofitting of City streetlights with LED lights in order to further reduce municipal energy consumption and costs.
The Green Community projects are managed collaboratively by the Department of Public Works and the Community Development Department with support from the Clean Energy Commission. Together, these two departments and Commission are Working to develop and fund additional energy reductions projects.
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Bank Gloucester Hosts Hospice Tree of Lights
Patrick Thorpe President and CEO of Bank Gloucester hosts the Hospice Tree of Light on Dec 9th 2013, many people came to honor memory of loved ones, and support the dedicated work of Hospice .
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Pet of the Week-Big Puppy
Hi, my name is Big Puppy. I am a sweet and affectionate girl who loves to play and snuggle.
I like playing with the other pups here at the Cape Ann Animal Aid (CAAA), located at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter in Gloucester. I weight about 32-pounds, so I will be medium when I am all grown up. If you would like to know more about me, see photos and learn more about the CAAA please visit: CapeAnnAnimalAid.com
I am looking forward to joining you at obedience class and for adventure outdoors. I like all the trails and all the wonderful things they have outdoors here at the shelter. I am so excited about finding a home and a family to love me, well, I get to the point where I can’t even sleep and when I do sleep, I dream about a family spoiling me…I just want my dreams to come true. Just by looking at me you can tell I am going to be a great dog!
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Having a Bad Night?
Good Morning Gloucester 