Monday, 7/3 – July 4th Celebrations (& Postponements) – Saturday Nahant House Fire (Photos) – Newburyport Maritime Days

 

 

Below: Nahant weekend house fire – Details on local fireworks

Weather – Skies will be brightening today, temps to the 70s. Another round of showers possible late this afternoon and into the evening.

 

Nahant House Fire – 7/1 – 374 Nahant Road – The Nahant Fire Department has confirmed that a grill fire spread to the house. At this time there is no report about the damages to the waterfront home valued at $6 million (Zillow.com). The two-alarm fire brought mutual aid from Lynn, Swampscott, Marblehead, Revere and Cataldo Ambulance to assist the Nahant fire fighters. There was an event at the home when the fire started early Saturday evening. (Photos Below)

Community News Notes – Photos – Sports

North Shore Fireworks

Beverly – July 3rd, Beverly Farms, West Road 

Lynn / Swampscott Fireworks – Now Wednesday 7/5 9:15 p.m. at Kings Beach

Gloucester Fireworks – Now July 8th (Stage Fort Park, 1 Hough Avenue, Gloucester, MA) – Parking located at the Gloucester high school. 6-11pm.

City of Salem – July 4th 

The Marblehead Fireworks & Harbor Illumination

Sunset on July 4^th is at 8:24 PM. The Harbor Illumination is scheduled to start at 9:00 PM when flares are lit all around the perimeter of the harbor, creating a magnificent ring of light that sets the stage for the main event: at 9:15 PM the fireworks are launched off a barge at the mouth of Marblehead Harbor, which creates ideal viewing opportunities for the public from the parks at Fort Sewall, Chandler Hovey Park, and Crocker Park, as well as for boaters, yacht club members at the five clubs that are located around the harbor as well as several private residences all around the harbor and Marblehead Neck.

Town of Danvers 

Cape Ann Museum – Singer-Songwriter Zane Christopher will kick off the CAM Courtyard Concert Series on Thursday, July 6 from 5:30-7:00 pm! During the summer, enjoy FREE concerts in the Cape Ann Museum Courtyard. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3p2V43a

Hamilton Police – What a great start to the holiday weekend and time to host a lemonade stand! Today was also K9 Luca’s first scheduled shift since he completed his training. It didn’t take him long to find the lemonade and start making friends!

Julie Curtis – on the north shore – So glad to once again be participating in the Beverly Historical Society reading of the Frederick Douglass speech “What the 4th of July Means to a Black Man”!

Lynn Ferry to Boston

Mass State Police – Days and days work go into getting the Esplanade ready for the Boston Pops

Honest Larry – We stumbled across this on social media, could this be real?

Sports

Navigators Fall Sunday Evening – Play on the Road Tonight 

LYNN — The Newport Gulls held off the North Shore Navigators’ attempted comeback in the later innings and posted a 4-1 victory in Sunday night’s New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) game at a rainy Fraser Field.

The Navs left two baserunners aboard in the eighth inning and brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth before falling to 9-13 on the season. Newport, which leads the Coastal Division and overall NECBL standings by five games, is 18-4.

Second baseman Luca Trigiani (William & Mary) went 2-for-4, and third baseman Jake Berger (Harvard) drove in the lone Navs run on a ringing triple into the right-center gap in the sixth inning. North Shore was limited to five hits as a team.

Beverly native Brayden Clark (Salve Regina) kept North Shore in the game across the first four innings of two-run ball and has now allowed just three earned runs over his 21 innings this season.

Five of the six Navs relievers that followed Clark logged scoreless appearances, including Colin Brodeur (Florida Southwestern State) who has put up zeroes in each of his last three games.

Newport scored a first-inning run on center fielder Anthony Donofrio’s (Quinnipiac) leadoff single followed by a pair of North Shore errors. Donofrio got to second base on a subsequent throwing error and scored when shortstop Kolby Branch (Baylor) reached due to the resulting error on his swinging bunt in front of the plate.

Clark settled down after allowing the early run to the league’s best offense, retiring the next three batters he faced and working around a one-out single in the second. Right fielder Tyler Hare (Georgia Tech) hit a sac fly to right that scored Donofrio after Newport’s first of two infield singles in the inning.

Gulls southpaw JD Thompson (Vanderbilt) held the home team silent through the first 3.2 innings, which included striking out the first nine batters of the game. Shortstop Henry Kaczmar (Ohio State) hit a two-out infield single on a comebacker off the pitcher to end Newport’s no-hit bid in the fourth, but he advanced no further on the basepaths.

Trigiani recorded his first hit with two outs in the fifth before the Navs got a run back in the sixth, helping to chase Thompson as the conclusion of the inning. After designated hitter DJ Pacheco (Richmond) reached on a ground-ball throwing error, Berger ripped a triple into the power alley to cut the Newport lead to 2-1.

However, the Gulls put the game out of reach with a pair of seventh-inning runs as seven batters came to the plate. Designated hitter Trent Farquhar (Michigan State) hit a one-out RBI triple and scored on a following wild pitch.

The Navs did not go down without a fight. Catcher Jackson Hornung (Kansas State) hit a two-out double in the seventh, while walks to Berger and Kaczmar started a threat that was extinguished with closer Grant Umberger (Virginia Tech) striking out the side in the eighth.

The best chance to make a dent on the scoreboard was the last. Trigiani hit a one-out infield single before right fielder Jake McElroy (Holy Cross) and Pacheco walked to load the bases, but Berger flew out to end the game.

Thompson earned the win in his first start for Newport, fanning 12 across six innings of three-hit ball over which he allowed an unearned run. Umberger worked around four walks and struck out three in two, one-hit innings to post the save. Donofrio and Farquhar were both 3-for-5 offensively.

The Navs return to the road for the next three games starting Monday night against the Sanford Mainers. First pitch from historic Goodall Park is set for 5 p.m.

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