The Godmother of Gloucester
Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken lends her voice to the voiceless in this salty city.
By Alexandra Pecci
Gloucester and the ocean are as interwoven as the lines of a gillnet. So perhaps it’s no surprise that Gloucester mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken’s emotions were running high the day after she toured the new Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute (GMGI), a marine biotech research laboratory opening in October on Gloucester Harbor. “I was ecstatic. It was like a little kid having their little first piece of cake,” she says. ”
She was thrilled with GMGI’s potential to forge a partnership between the s
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