Mary Oliver
The wind wags its many tails. And in the evening the piled firewood shifts a little, longing to be on its way. —Mary Oliver
September 28, 2007
Luiz Ricardo Arrives
Luiz Ricardo Arrives Daniella Andrade and Agentic de Oliveira of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Luiz Ricardo de Oliveira, born on Sept. 19 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Luiz weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces at birth.
Chilmark Board Revises Pool Heating Proposal
The Chilmark planning board moved ahead this week with a proposed amendment to town zoning bylaws that would require all pools in the town be heated with renewable energy. After a discussion and public hearing on Monday the board unanimously voted to forward revised wording of a proposed bylaw to the town selectmen for placement…
Gazette Chronicle: 50 Years Ago
50 Years Ago From the Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1957:
Katie May Makes Six
Katie May Makes Six Beth and John Johnson of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a daughter, Katie May Johnson, born on Sept. 24 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth. Katie is also welcomed by her siblings: Cooper, Connor, Maggie, Hanni and Cully. Her maternal grandparents are…
Selectmen Okay Portable Dredge Trial
Edgartown selectmen this week approved a trial dredging project with a new piece of equipment some people hope will address not only the Edgartown Great Pond’s water quality issues but also problems with many of the Island’s smaller ponds. The $500,000 portable dredge called Nessie now will be trucked in from California and, if all…
Fantasy Art Casts Dreams Into Reality For Island-Raised Artist Paul Carrick
October will be a month of firsts for Island-raised artist Paul Carrick. This month, four of his paintings will be hung at the world’s only science fiction museum in Switzerland. “It’s the first time I will have my stuff on real walls,” he said by telephone this week. When he steps off of the plane…
Hello, Makayla
Hello, Makayla Laurel Maciel and Greg Bray announce the birth of a daughter, Makayla Lorraine Maciel, on Sept. 13 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Makayla weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces at birth. She is also welcomed by brother Trent, grandparents Steven and Laurie Maciel of West Tisbury, great-grandparents Robert and Barbara Maciel of West…
Oak Bluffs Residents Complain Of Noise from Staging Area
Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday threatened to kick an off-Island contractor out of a staging area on School street after dozens of residents complained about excessive noise and light from the site that was keeping them up at night and generally causing problems in their neighborhood.
Letters to the Editor
PROTECT HORSE TRAILS Editors, Vineyard Gazette: The following letter was sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
Chappy
MARGARET KNIGHT 508-627-8894 (margaret02539@yahoo.com) It seemed like half the population of Chappaquiddick made it over to the launching of Destiny, Rick and Chrissie Haslet’s new ketch, at the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard this past Saturday. What a beautiful boat, very near to perfection — it almost looks too nice to sail.
Just on Halberstam: One of Best, Brightest
Before Tuesday’s book launch at the Bunch of Grapes, the audience was issued an unusual instruction for such an event. They were asked not to seek to get their copies of the book The Coldest Winter, signed by the man launching it, Ward Just. The reason was obvious, but sad. Mr. Just did not write…
Photographer Works with Kids and Animals
Artist Lynn Christoffers is exhibiting photographic work prints from two current book projects — Children on the Vineyard, and Cats on the Vineyard. The works in progress by Ms. Christoffers, of West Tisbury and New York city, are on show at M. M. Stone Fine Art on State Road in West Tisbury, from Saturday, Sept.…
Chilmark
JANE N. SLATER 508-645-3378 (slaterjn@comcast.net) I have had an off-Island adventure since I wrote last and I am happy to be back in Chilmark. I made some observations on my three-day jaunt that I will share with you. First, the ticket-less ticket program on the ferry only required three pieces of paper — isn’t that…
Vineyard School Football, Golf Teams Continue Winning Ways
Daylight is on the wane, temperatures are dipping and beaches are emptying, but on the high school athletic fields the fall sports season is just starting to heat up. As one Vineyard sports fan put it this week, “The leaves are turning, the busy season is over, and there is high school football on Saturday…
Garden Obelisks
Garden Obelisks On Saturday, Oct. 6 from 9 a.m. to noon, Janice Shields, owner of Cut It Out, a business committed to recycling invasive species to craft practical and decorative structures for the garden, will conduct a garden obelisk workshop at Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury. An obelisk is a freestanding structure that provides…
East Chop
RICK HERRICK 508-693-8065 herricklr@verizon.net When I was younger, the thought of retiring in East Chop was something I never considered. The image I had of winters here was one of boarded-up homes, dark streets, and boredom. When Jere and Emma Carmichael came to East Chop to live full-time in 1972, I thought they were crazy.
Bone Marrow
Bone Marrow Next weekend offers two opportunities for Vineyarders to test their ability to donate bone marrow, in the Save Giovanni’s Friends Bone Marrow Drive. A simple cheek swab procedure will be performed by Caitlin Raymond International Registry. According to state law, your health insurance must pay the donor fee, and if you don’t have…
Chef Serves Up Super Foods Complete With Season’s Recipes
Elizabeth Germain will teach a super foods cooking class at the FARM Institute at Katama Farm in Edgartown on Sunday, Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The class will begin in the FARM’s friendship garden, rain or shine, where participants will pick vegetables and herbs for lunch and some to preserve. The focus…
Edgartown
KATHIE CASE 508-627-5349 (kcase1@verizon.net) There are a lot of smiles on people’s faces as they are enjoying the cool sunny weather. You can wear long sleeves, short sleeves, and still be comfortable. You can even still enjoy the beach. And even though we had a drizzly weekend the weddings were still beautiful.
This Ketch Destined for New Zealand
Last Saturday at Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, amidst the swirl of bagpipes and the boom of cannons, Rick and Chrissie Haslet launched their 42-foot ketch Destiny. Joining them were hundreds of Vineyard residents, friends of the couple, Rick’s dad and sister and Chrissie’s father who flew in from New Zealand.
Paddling Squibnocket Pond, A World Away
On almost the last day of summer my husband and I loaded our kayaks on top of the car and found our way to the entrance of Squibnocket Pond for our last waterway exploration of the summer.
Vineyard Gardener
By LYNNE IRONS Holy potatoes. As you may recall, in the spring, I tossed my potatoes into my old chicken yard, covered each with a flake of hay, and walked away. I didn’t do one bit of maintenance except for a good dose of water every ten days or so. At the risk of sounding…
Commission Will Sponsor Planning Workshop Series
Commission Will Sponsor Planning Workshop Series The Martha’s Vineyard Commission will host three workshops offered by the Citizen Planner Training Collaborative to provide planning and zoning officials and members of the public with tools to make effective decisions regarding the community’s current and future land use. The workshops will be at the commission at the…
Methodists Combine for Service, Sundaes
The four churches of the United Methodist Cooperative Ministry will hold a joint service at the Edgartown United Methodist Church, the Old Whaling Church, on Main street in Edgartown on Sunday, Sept. 30 at 11 a.m.
Elusive Striper
John Buchan noted that the charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. I am not charmed, but do have lots of hope because while I have fished, I have yet to catch. There have been no morning or evening trips…
Pistol Champions
Pistol Champions Jonathan Cristea of Edgartown captured the small-caliber division of the annual Martha’s Vineyard Pistol Championships on Sept. 16 with a score of 340 out of 400. His brother, Joel Cristea, captured the large-caliber division with a score of 340 in that class. In the non-member division, first-time shooter Heather Mead captured first place…
Troubling Teen Statistics
Troubling Youth Statistics The percentage leaps off the page. According to a Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted this past February among Island students from seventh through twelfth grades, twelve per cent of the high school students said they had attempted suicide in the previous twelve months. That’s a startling number in itself. It looms even…
Clean Again, Sengekontacket Pond Reopens on Monday for Shellfishing
Sengekontacket Pond will reopen Monday to shellfishing, but the source of the bacterial contamination which led to its closure for most of the summer remains a mystery. Edgartown shellfish constable Paul Bagnall announced on Monday that new tests of the pond’s water, done last week, showed coliform bacteria counts down to within safe levels, allowing…
Oak Bluffs
HOLLY NADLER 508-693-3880 (sunporch@vineyard.net) New rules for drivers, walkers and bicyclists on the Vineyard: After another summer of road rage, sidewalk rage and too-many-people-per-square-foot rage, here is a brand-new manifesto for the bipedal, meaning pedestrians and bicyclists (this also applies to anyone who leaves the keys to his or her auto on the hook beside…
Bringing Back Cod
Important changes came last week in the effort to bring cod back to New England waters. The New England Fishery Management Council at its meeting in Plymouth established a protective zone for juvenile cod in the Great South Channel. While it will take up to three years to come up with protective rules for that…
Harnessing Wind Power at Aquinnah Cliffs
Today is the right time for Aquinnah to opt for energy independence and conservation with a major town-owned windturbine at the Gay Head Cliffs area.
Land Swap Creates Conservation Trails, Affordable Housing Lots
Concluding four years of negotiations, the Chilmark selectmen this week announced a three-way land swap which will open up a new conservation corridor between North and South Roads and create four affordable homesites in town. The land swap involves the town, the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank and the Hillman family, longtime summer residents who own…
Vineyard Haven
NANCY GARDELLA 508-693-3308 (vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)
Up-Island Pottery Holds Moving Sale at Studio
Up-Island Pottery is having a moving sale on Sunday, Oct. 7, selling discontinued styles, patterns and colors. Candy Shweder is opening a new studio on the Island. She has been selling her wares for more than 20 years at both the Chilmark Flea Market and more recently at the Vineyard Artisans Shows, where she will…
Peg’s Steady Regime
Peg’s Steady Regime
Business of Derby Goes Beyond Fishing
The Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby is a folksy event that has also become a mature, sophisticated enterprise generating more than $2 million, perhaps as much as $3 million annually in shoulder season revenue for Island businesses. “That’s why the derby was started. There was no shoulder season when the derby began as…
West Tisbury
JOHN S. ALLEY 508-693-2950 (alleys@vineyard.net)
Weekly Workshop Explores Healthy Child Connections
How can the pervasive effects of advertising, media, and our consumer culture influence a child’s view of the world? How do you find ways to create meaningful family times and healthful environments for our children? How can you develop a child’s connection to nature and foster his or her creativity?
Even Though Fit at 65, Firefighters Must Retire
The Tisbury selectmen voted a maximum age of 65 for its firefighters on Tuesday night, at the recommendation of the town’s attorney – and to the dismay of about 10 firemen in attendance. The pressing question of whether fire captain Michael Carroll – who turned 65 this month – would have to leave the department…
School Lunch
Charter School Monday, Oct. 1: Rotini with broccoli and garlic, Italian sausage, peaches and milk. Tuesday, Oct. 2: Mexican chicken or vegetable soup, tortilla chips, fruit smoothie and milk. Wednesday, Oct. 3: Barbecue sandwich, fish sandwich or veggie burger with cheese, coleslaw, pineapple and milk. Thursday, Oct. 4: Pizza (plain cheese, pepperoni or roasted veggie),…
Ace Golfers, Hacks Swing For Habitat on Sunday
Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard will host its second annual hole-in-one and putting tournament at Farm Neck Golf Club, County Road, Oak Bluffs on Sunday, Sept. 30 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. This year the shot will be about 60 yards instead of 168. A cash prize will be offered. Participants may take…
Authorities Puzzle Over Man Missing from Ferry
Investigators are continuing their search for a Fairhaven man who may have fallen overboard during a Vineyard-bound trip of the New England Fast Ferry on Monday. A team of investigators that includes Island and mainland police, the U.S. Coast Guard and the New Bedford Port Security Authority searched this week for 28-year-old Walter P. Tyler…
Playing from the Heart: Bands Jam to Help Ella Get Her Groove Back
Ella Lynne Luening-Goidicke is a natural performer. She should be — the stage is in her blood. Her mother is Island singer and actress Sabrina Luening. Her uncle is local musician Erich Luening. They have lent their talent to many bands — 2nd Power, Drawn Butter, 36 Grit to name a few — and a…
Former Town Librarian Indicted on Sex Offense
The former West Tisbury library director who abruptly resigned in April after less than a year on the job has been charged with two counts of sexually abusing a child while he worked as the director of the Haverhill public library more than 20 years ago. Howard Curtis, 57, who worked as the library director…
Aquinnah
JUNE MANNING 508-645-2574 (lthslnks@gis.net) The Aquinnah Community Programs Committee will sponsor a bazaar and flea market on Sunday, Sept. 30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal Building on Black Brook Road. A luncheon of bass chowder, sandwiches and beverages will be available. A table of interesting raffle items and a…
Town Commission Approves Conditions for Ice House Pond
The West Tisbury conservation commission Wednesday night approved a set of conditions for the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank to use in managing and maintaining public access to the 11.1-acre glacial pond. The order of conditions will take effect after a 10-day appeal provision is satisfied and if the land bank accepts the conditions. “We will…
Benefit Yard Sale
Benefit Yard Sale The girls field hockey and girls lacrosse teams are holding a benefit yard sale, Saturday, Sept. 29, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. A wide variety of items will be available. Both teams are raising monies for uniforms and team travel for the current season. This is…
Lucia Welcomes Nicola
Lucia Welcomes Nicola Heather and Joseph Capece of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Nicola Josephine Capece, at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital on Sept. 8. Nicola weighed 7 pounds, 7.5 ounces at birth. She is also welcomed by her sister, Lucia.
Chilmark Tax Rate Rises, Median Home Value Dips
The tax rate in Chilmark will go up from $1.87 to $1.96 in 2008, assistant assessor Pamela Bunker reported at an annual public property rate classification hearing with the selectmen on Tuesday. This marks an increase of nine cents.
Postcards Reveal Bustling Nature of Circuit Avenue a Century Ago
In the second block of Circuit avenue between Park, now Healy Way, and Narragansett avenues, postcards give a glimpse at the street scene a century ago. The Metropolitan Hotel, one of the town’s landmarks, filled the corner of Circuit, Park and Kennebec avenues. Postcards show not only the exterior of the 75-room hotel with its…
