Gail McCarthy/Staff photographer/Gloucester Daily Times. Rockport: A Rockport public works crew went out to Front Beach on June 6 to help clean up the downtown beach that was fully blanketed from one end to the other with red seaweed that prompted many passers-by to stop and take a glimpse. Also Carolyn McWilliams, a Rockport Middle School eighth grade science teacher, lower left, was helping because she was holding a research workshop for her students there later that morning.

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