The Cricket

12/10/2025

So much fun and so many photos from Saturday's Essex Historical Society & Shipbuilding Museum's "A Very Essex Holiday" featuring the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus by boat. Tons of locals were on hand to meet them, with cocoa, food, and music. What a great time!

12/04/2025

Our friends at Bridge Cape Ann and Streamography will be livestreaming today's funeral service in Gloucester for MA Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, who died last Thursday at age 53 from pancreatic cancer. Livestream will be at 1 p.m. EST today, and can be accessed via Bridge Cape Ann's Youtube channel, link below.

Kory Curcuru founded Bridge Cape Ann in 2012 to showcase local culture & small businesses around his hometown. Now he’s sharing the friendships he’s made alo...

12/02/2025

11/27/2025

MA Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, who represented the 5th Essex District — including Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, and Manchester — passed away early this morning at the age of 53 from …

11/16/2025

Today, 3 p.m. at the First Parish Manchester-by-the-Sea, it's "We Hold These Truths," a performance of American music and poetry from Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, and Florence Price to Bob Dylan, Robert Frost, and Walt Whitman. Free and open to the public.

The holidays are approaching as the nation drifts through yet another cycle of uncertainty—the federal shutdown, political division, civic fatigue—the First Parish Congregational Church …

10/15/2025

Wow, what a morning Singing Beach in Town of Manchester by the Sea. A vehicle was stranded and left at approximately 4:30 a.m. this morning. MBTS Fire and Police with DPW and Tally's Towing were on the scene and pulled the car by 6:30. Great job guys. Apparently, it was a case of college students having too much fun. Fortunately, no one was hurt!

10/12/2025

10/05/2025

It's been 20 years since Town of Manchester by the Sea passed the Community Preservation Act, which has funded all manner of important local projects preserving open space, history, affordable housing, and recreation. And for so many of these years, award-winning architectural photographer Steve Rosenthal has captured the work beautifully. ,

When the Manchester Community Preservation Committee (CPC) kicked off this year’s grant funding cycle at a meeting last week, it marked an important milestone: its 20th anniversary. …

08/22/2025

New exhibit at GLADSTONE, featuring the photography of Lisl Steiner in the show, "Perfectly Exposed," curated by Charles Gladstone and opening with a reception today at 5 p.m. Heading there soon!

If you look up Lisl Steiner on You Tube, you will find a video entitled “No Bullsh*t at 88 - Society is Kaput & Other Truths From an Ageless Spirit: Lisl Steiner.” This is Lisl …

08/14/2025

It’s the annual Green Heads Gone! party at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum tonight, with the awesome/hilarious/oh-so-cute pounding of the green head piñata! What a great time!