Wellspring House will hold its annual Celesong fundraiser on Friday, May 1, at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport.

The 19th annual Salem Film Fest will take place March 26–29 at venues across Salem, organizers announced this week.

The Cape Ann Symphony will continue its 74th season with a program featuring works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Joaquín Rodrigo at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15.

Cape Ann Symphony continues the Musicians Unleashed Concert Series with Moods of the Sea Concert, on Sunday, February 8, at 3 p.m. at The St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1123 Washington Street, Gloucester. 

Manchester porcelain sculptor Anna Kasabian will have her sculptures in three different juried exhibits this month and next. These inlcude her sculpture, "Windy Seas Off Islesboro" which is part of the first ever Members Show at The Copley Society of Art (Newbury Street, Boston) through the end of the month.

This year, Cape Ann Plein Air (CAPA) will celebrate a major milestone—ten years of bringing plein air painters from around the US (and sometimes internationally) to Cape Ann every October to paint Cape Ann life for one week in a competition and art festival that has become one of America’s largest plein air art events.

Poet and Manchester native Sarah Beckmann has released a second collection of poetry, The Race for Daphne, published by Finishing Line Press.  The new collection follows Beckmann’s 2021 publishing debut, Naiad Blood, in which she explored life, especially life on the water, doing what she loves—rowing. 

Mercury Gallery in Rockport is currently featuring the work of artist and architect Michael McKinnell (1935–2020), whose paintings distill everyday scenes into carefully structured compositions …

Somehow, in the past couple of months, it seems that the corner of School Street and Union/Beach Street in Manchester has at long last woken up from its seemingly eternal slumber.  Lavender …

Rockport’s New Year’s Eve celebration returns on Wednesday, December 31, and promises to transform downtown Rockport into a lively, walkable festival of music, art, and family fun from 4 p.m. to …

On Friday, a team from The Open Door arrived at the Cape Ann Museum with a very special donation: an exceptionally rare textile, “Zodiac” by Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios, founder of the Folly …

Essex needed a grocery market.  It had been talked about, wished for, and a bit of a burr in the saddle of locals for some time.  But even I underestimated the sheer joy of putting eggs, …

For many, 2025 has been a challenging year, but also an inspiring one.  As a community, we looked around, leaned in, stepped up, lent a hand, and came together—for each other. And …

Manchester artist Barbara Lynch, best known locally for her culinary flair as the chef founder of The Rudder on Rocky Neck, will debut new whimsical paintings at an open studio event in Gloucester on …

With many locals focused on Thanksgiving this week—turkey and football—it may be hard to believe that the holidays will pop up on us all. Starting this week, the Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce will host its annual Christmas-by-the-Sea annual celebration, starting on Thursday, Dec. 4 with its Manchester Division holiday party at 35 Beach. …

Late last month, the Scouts of Manchester Essex Troop 3 spent a weekend canoeing down the Saco River and reignited an old troop tradition when 18 scouts and eight adults paddled 22 miles down the …

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 …

Over two sunny weekends in Essex, the Scouts of ME Troop 3 participated in a shipbuilding course donated to them by Essex resident William Taylor.  The scouts did more than 20 hours of work to …

The Cape Ann Symphony, under the baton of Music Director and Conductor Yoichi Udagawa, kicks off its holiday season with three performances of Holiday   Pops   2025 , featuring the full orchestra …