Lobster trap tree is lit! Quiet first snowfall #GloucesterMA Glow

photos: c. ryan, Dec 14, 2025

Safety Day

Mark your calendars! 📆 The City of Gloucester’s Saftey Day 🚓🚑🚒🚧🛟 2025 will be held on Saturday, September 27th at Harbor Loop from 10AM to 2PM.

This years event will feature a helicopter 🚁 and rescue swimmer 🏊🏻 demonstration from the United States Coast Guard , a simulated car accident 🚗 extrication from the Gloucester Fire Department 🚒 as well as an bomb squad demonstration from the Massachusetts State Police 🚔 featurng their Boston Dynamics robot “Spot”.

Day 2 Bluefin Blowout Schedule of Events, Livestream and General Information Post. Stickied To the Top of www.goodmorninggloucester.com for your Convenience. Going live at 11 today, Thursday

I’ll keep this stickied to the top of GMG so you won’t have to go searching for it. At the very top will be our embedded livestream which will begin Wednesday at 10AM (or around then). Lust under that will be the Tournament and Public event schedule and Under that we will have the leaderboard updated. Again you’ll be able to see all this if you just type in www.goodmorninggloucester.com

Livestream:

2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 

​JULY 14 – Bluefin Bash Fundraiser
(Ticketed event) ​

JULY 15 – Captain’s Welcome Dinner
(Private event not open to the public)​

JULY 16 – Day 1 Weigh-Ins (Open to the public)
11:00 AM – Weigh-In Opens
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Food Truck Festival
9:00 PM – Weigh-In Closes​

JULY 17 – Day 2 Weigh-Ins 
11:00 AM – 4:30 PM: Weigh-Ins (Open to the public)
6:00 PM – Captain & Crew Dinner, Awards, Closing Ceremony 

(Private event for captains, crew, and qualifying sponsor levels only)

LEADERBOARD

 

Minutemen setting up for Bunker Hill reenactment

It is getting very exciting.  On Saturday I will be volunteering and hopefully get some great photos.  On Sunday Rick and I are going on The Lannon.  Exciting

 

MLK DAY 2025

GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE, MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. BIRTHDAY EVENT 2025

The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation proudly presents its ninth annual
Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday event. It will be held on Monday, January 20th
at 2:00pm in the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, located at the corner
of Church and Middle Streets (GPS 50 Middle Street). An elevator is available
from the side door at 10 Church Street. No charge for admission but freewill
donations are gratefully received. For more information please visit:
www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org

This year’s program will honor Dr. King by featuring the work being done by two
local groups to reckon with history. Afterward, there will be a discussion about
how vernacular history gets written, “how the word is passed.” The program
will open with a recording of Martin Luther King, Jr. reading segments of
“Letters from Birmingham Jail.”

Joe Rukeyser from the Cape Ann Slavery and Abolition Project will present
recent research on abolition. Melissa Dimond of Wellspring House will follow
with that organization’s work on the Freeman Family, the prominent Black
family who called the Wellspring House home for over 100 years. Then Michea
McCaffrey, co-chair of the Gloucester Racial Justice Team, and Dick Prouty,
founder of TownGreen and board member of the Gloucester Meetinghouse
Foundation, will lead a discussion on critical points made by author Clint Smith
in his book How the Word is Passed. (It is not necessary to have read the book.)
The Paul Revere Bell in the Meetinghouse tower will be rung at the end as
people disperse onto the newly restored green.