Here is another example of a business that could do business anywhere but they choose Gloucester. Landing a huge international account with Crocs Apparel we sit down with the President of Brand Group International, Tim Oullette.
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Video- The Testaverde’s Midnight Sun Lands A Trip Of Haddock
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And Dog Bar Makes Twenty! Bikini Speedo Dodgeball All Filled Up With Teams For Our Brackets!
This is gonna be bat-shit bananas!
Twenty teams of men and women in bikinis and speedos trying to annihilate each other medieval style on the Dodgeball Court Behind The Farm Bar and Grille On March 4th with the profits from the entry fees going to www.nextstep.org which provides help for teens and young adults afflicted with life threatening illnesses.
Can you imagine 20 teams of 5 and then all of their supports of how much insanity and fun that is going to be? This is going to be the entertainment event of all of 2012!!!!!
Word Is That One of Gloucester’s Biggest Supporters Of Live local Music Andy Mullholland Will Be Sporting The Speedo and Leading His Dog Bar Squad “American Bacon”. Andy caused quite a stir with the team name which is a direct shot across the bow of his Cape Ann Farmer’s Market Seafood Throwdown Nemesis Erik Lorden From Passport whose Team had already been named “Canadian Bacon”. There will be no love lost between these mortal enemies on the Dodgeball Court. Question Is- Who Will Bring The Meat?
We do not know how athletic these teams will be compared to the many Cross Fit and Athletic Club Squads but they will surely win the straight sexy points with their many fans!
Mark Your Calendars Now! March 4th at Noon! The Farm Bar and Grille for The Ultimate Spectacle that will Be-
The Second Annual GMG/Farm Bar and Grille Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament!
All of the profits from the sign-ups of the Tournament are going to Next Step, an organization that provides support, education and resources for teens and young adults coping with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. www.nextstepnet.org
click here for Cape Ann Brewing Coverage Team Nacho Libre
North Shore Cross Fit Team Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Captain Tracy Conley
Maestranzi Brothers Red White & Blue Balls Team Captain Frankie Gwynn
Our Hosts The Farm Bar and Grille check them out the Farm’s Facebook Page here
Farm Team Name- Ass With Class With Captain Ryan Cox
Here are the other squads signed on
We have a Ryan and Wood Distillery sponsored squad (best damn spirits you can consume on the planet) check out their website and live distillery webcam
Sugar Mags is putting a yet to be named team together- check the breakfast artistry that is Sugar Magnolia’s and like their Facebook page. Also did you know Sugar Mag’s does catering?
Cross Fit Cape Ann should be the early favorites, we will see if their elite training will put them over the top. Check out their blog here
Beverly Athletic Club’s Team will look to contend with the cross fit athletes from Cross Fit Cape for the top seed.
Team Name- Kiss Our BACsides
I will be sponsoring GMG Team Rubber Rippers featuring our boy Kurt Lubbers and a team of maniacal Coasties.
Passports Canadian Bacon Team Captain Erik Lorden
and Ed Collard’s House Doctors Handyman Repair Services
Team Name Blinded By The White
check out Jungle’s website here
Mamie’s Kitchen’s Muffin Tops has signed on to the Farm Bar and Grille Good Morning Gloucester Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament!
Team Name Mamie’s Muffin Tops
Check out the delectable dishes from Mamie’s Kitchen here
Team Name- Hot Mess
Here’s her website- http://www.muffywhite.com/
Beach Gourmet Catering
Matt Beach will be opening up shop after last year’s horrible Washington St fire in the location of the former Connors Pharmacy.
The T Shirt Design Front (the date is going to be correct March 4th)-
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Liquid gold in old windows
Sunrise reflected in old windowpanes of the old St. Ann High School.
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Sunrise last Friday…
…was just beautiful!
The silhouette of City Hall doesn’t hurt the photo either.
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Come On Summer! From Ann Kennedy
Ann Writes-
I know it’s time for summer when I stare longingly at last year’s photos! Can hardly wait! As usual, we’re loving the great coverage of all things Gloucester and have started the count-down to return!
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Favorite trail running spot on Cape Ann?
In my mind, nothing beats running through the woods. Personally, I’m a fan of long runs where I run like a little kid – speed through the parts I’m excited about, stop to check out the really cool things, and slow down or even walk when I want to. I know this isn’t the proper way to train for a race, but I think running should be fun and firmly believe I’ll be a better runner (or at least go running more often) if I keep it fun.
That being said, eventually I’ll remember to take a camera with me on a run along the Ledge Hill Trail through Ravenswood Park. If you’ve never seen the view from the top of the ledge up there overlooking the harbor, you need to. So either go do it yourself now, or you’ll see it digitally when my camera makes it up there with me.
In any case, what I really want is for some of you to share your favorite spots to galavant through the woods of Cape Ann! If you’re willing to share, leave it in the comments section. And if you’ve got a picture, even better! Email it to me (dawn.gadow@gmail.com) and I’ll post it for all to enjoy… Meanwhile, get out and enjoy it!
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Beautiful Industry- Birdseye At Dusk
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Joey C says:
I disagree that only one person gains completely. I grew up 5 houses from a hotel. My sister built a house two doors down from where we grew up and my mom still lives there.
The jobs created, the vendors that this property would support, the increased taxes paid to the city and much more on top of the fact that the people behind this already have a GREAT track record of supporting our community and its organizations.Destroying neighborhoods and not helping the community by donating Five Hundred Thousand Dollars to help rebuild Newell Stadium?
Destroying neighborhoods by providing jobs in a building that has basically been vacant for years? Destroying neighborhoods by paying the city many multiples more in taxes to pay to keep fire stations open, roads paved and schools in better shape? Destroying neighborhoods by providing visitors a place to stay and support our vital Downtown businesses, area museums and attractions such as whale watches, schooner tours the Cape Ann Museum, The Heritage Center and The Sargent House? A place where they can park and walk to all of these destinations without having to clog up our streets with vehicles?Building a hotel on a beach where you would never offload a boat. Because you know, you don’t offload boats on beaches. You don’t have to displace fishermen to do this.
I’d say that what is destroying neighborhoods is not encouraging development and change when the industry you relied on for years has been radically consolidated to make fish stocks more sustainable which means no way that you could ever land the amount of fish that was once landed or else you would simply be negligent to returning to overfishing.
Destroying neighborhoods? Really???
I’d say what destroys communities more than anything is not having enough tax revenue and jobs to support strong school systems and this is the kind of project that will help with both!
Andrew Innes says:So it’s all about the money is it ? What about the businesses all ready there? Shall they be bought or forced out ? And what about, of course, the people that are already there? Are they to be bought or forced out ? This is an invasion of the super rich upon the history, the industry, the people, the place that is Gloucester. “Polis is this.”
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All about the money????
The building has been empty. Who says anyone has to sell their house????
Show me the person that had their ARM twisted to sell out???An invasion by someone that wants to invest in our community and provide jobs on a site that was close to being foreclosed on???
Invasion by someone who has donated their other space to countless community organizations to hold their fundraisers?? Invasion by a group of people who demonstrated that they didn’t force a single fishing boat off of the Cruiseport site and where there is probably more port activity with a restaurant and function facility operating on the same space with fishing boats, cruise line landings and LNG pipeline support.
Invasion by a group that employs probably hundreds in Gloucester and that’s not to mention the hundreds of vendors that supply services such as photographers, food purveyors, caterers, electricians, webmasters, florists, linens and again supporting them without displacing a single fishing boat.
You act as if people making money is a bad thing.
How do you expect to improve our schools, pay for our growing infrastructure needs, and public safety?? With empty buildings? The fishing industry is not going to be allowed to overfish again. It isn’t going back to a free for all. The number of permits and fishermen have been drastically reduced.
Why are you scared to death that people will make money and pay more taxes and support our downtown? Can you simply not stand it?
Do you not recognize that the fishing industry has been greatly consolidated?
Do you not recognize that with the auctions, that the amount of fish that goes through way fewer waterfront buildings is a fraction of what it once was?As long as the boats aren’t being displaced the fishermen I speak to are in favor of changes to the upland parts of the waterfront.
Don’t you want better for our children than empty buildings and no way to fund stronger educations for them?
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Gloucester Harbor Walk Construction Photos From Steve Douglass
Dear Joey,
I am sending pictures I took last Friday. The"Gloucester Harbor Walk" under construction. Photos taken by Steve Douglass gloucesterharborwalk.com.
I was informed by a construction worker that the "Walk" should be completed by May 1 st. 2012.
I hope that you could include them in the daily "Good Morning Gloucester site".
Regards,
Steve Douglass
Harbor Tours Inc.
and
Gloucester Harbor Walk,
A self guided audio tour
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“Gloucester Town” – from the Wednesday “sing” at the Annie
Carlo Cicala played and sang “Gloucester Town” (his variation on a familiar song) last Wednesday evening at the “sing” at The Annie. He was accompanied by Bob on the sax and Ernie on the guitar. I had some camera trouble that cut off the first few seconds, but here is the rest:
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Miracles
I need to uncork this jar and get at least two miracles right now…
The pottery in the sunlight was bought at Bodin Historic Photo and Fine Art which sells a variety of this kind of pottery by a local artist. Bodin is having an open event with wine, cheese and chocolate this Saturday night from 5-9PM – come wearing red! The Celtic-ornamented pewter cup in the shadow in this photo is Irish pewter sold at The Pewter Shop in Rockport. Two of our many fine Cape Ann establishments!
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Chickity Check It! Some of The Area’s Greatest Photographers Local Photos In The GMG Flickr Group
click the picture to view the slide show
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“Vintage” sculpture garden
Our new sculpture garden next to City Hall, with a vintage look applied to it…
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Summer Black and Whites From Bill Langer
Hi Joey,
Wow, everyone is having fun with black and white these days — I’ve always loved B&W so I went ahead and spent the dough on NIK Silver Efex, and boy, is it great! Nothing like it for spectacular skies! Here are three pix that I took a couple of summers ago, and just converted.
All the best, Bill
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Shhhhhhhh…. be very, very, quiet
Art Rock 02/05/2012
look for the 4:30 pm post for the location.
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Sky Reflected on the Harbor From Tom Bruno
Good morning Good Morning Gloucester folks,
I thought I’d share a picture I took of the sky reflected on the
harbor this morning!
Thanks,
Tom Bruno
Check Out Tom’s Blog The Jersey Exile Here
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My Nana and her Lighthouses
If there’s one thing I learned from my great grandmother, it’s the importance of being a hostess—welcoming people into your home and making them feel warm, loved and taken care of. But if you asked me for two things my Nana taught me in the 23 years I had with her, the second would be to never let a lighthouse go unappreciated.
She loved lighthouses and had them everywhere – sweatshirts with lighthouses on them, calendars, magnets on the fridge. She loved to go driving around just to visit lighthouses in New England. Lighthouses like the one I get to walk by every day on my way to work. As I get ready to go say my good-byes at Nana Lyman’s memorial on Monday, I decided to take a little tour of Gloucester’s lighthouses and appreciate the beauty around us every day – just wanted to share a little bit of it.
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Ben MacAdam’s new studio space at One Center Street, Downtown Gloucester
Here is his most recent work:
"Fort Point Channel District, Boston, MA "
72 x 48 in
Visitors welcome by appointment only
You can contact Ben at ben@benmacadam.com or call him at 978.394.1506."
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The History Channel Tapes Segment With Wives and Daughters of Gloucester Fishermen At The Lone Gull
On February 1st 2012 the History Channel was at the Lone Gull to tape segments talking about the fishing industry and how the wives and daughters of Gloucester fishermen remember the industry.
Here are some photos I took at the taping-
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Tacos Lupita Gloucester Now Officially Open!!!
O M G I just had a pork burrito with everything cut right off the spit! Hellooooo Tacos Lupita!!! OUTSTANDING and Fresh and Cheap!!!!!!
This place is gonna be mobbed!!!!
68 Washington Street Gloucester
Tell ‘em Joey from Good Morning Gloucester Sent You!
Good Morning Gloucester 
I would say that the loss of a neighborhood through the money making plans of one person is a blow to the entire community, fishing industry and a slap to the face of the historical perspective of Gloucester. Frankly, Joey, I am very surprised to see you sitting on the fence with this issue, when your perspective with so many other things shows you have good eye for composition. One would think that growing up around the industry would make your choices far in favor of people who’s entire lives and the livelihoods of generations before them helped make this city become an attractive place. It didn’t happen the other way around. People didn’t come here to enjoy the flavor of the area and then build an entire fishing industry around the beauty of the harbor. The harbor was built and then the people came to work the already growing industry. The beauty was discovered after the hard dedicated work was already done.