Dylan Thomas
The birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses I rose in rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. – Dylan Thomas
July 1, 2008
Connecting to End Violence and Abuse Against Women
Since Carrie White joined Connect — formerly known as Women’s Support Services — last fall, her focus has been on reducing the client base. “We’re trying to get out there to help change the social norms,” said Ms. White who since coming on as program director has made one full-time hire for preventive work and…
Chance Encounter With a Celtics Legend
Bill Russell, John Havlicek, JoJo White, Tommy Heinsohn and Danny Ainge were cheered again by thousands of screaming fans two weeks ago as Boston Celtic legends led the 2008 NBA champion Boston Celtic parade through the green, fan-frenzied streets of their city. A crowd filled Copley Square and then something different happened. The basketball legends…
Salty Dogs and East Chop Beach Boys Still Like to Go Out in the Midday Sun
They were two young sailing misfits at the East Chop Beach Club more than 30 years ago. And through the years they’ve cultivated a friendship that has crossed the sea, built a business and continues to reinvent itself. Todd Alexander, 45, is the Oak Bluffs harbor master. His wife is Kara Gelinas and they have…
Kid Critics’ Guide to Summer Films
Truth comes from the mouths of babes. Or rather kids, or young adults, or the future of humanity . . . whatever you label them, the pint-sized pulse-takers of youth culture are back this summer with their own tell-all reviews of the movies for young viewers screening every Wednesday evening at the Chilmark Community Center.
Court Dismisses Actions Against Turbine Project
Opponents to the Cape Wind project have suffered another setback, with a new court ruling dismissing a series of complaints related to the state’s jurisdiction in assessing the project. Barnstable Superior Court Judge Robert Kane ruled in favor of Cape Wind Associates, and struck down four of five counts brought by the town of Barnstable,…
IMPers and Wimps Don’t Scrimp on Weekly Comedy
Continuing a 14-year tradition of comedy improvisation on Wednesday evenings, actors will take the Grange Hall stage every Wednesday night from July 2 to August 20. This year, the cast of 10 includes the IMPers, the teen professional troupe, as well as the newly reincarnated WIMP. The new WIMP consists of former IMPers now in…
Festival Announces Final List of Performers for August Event
After hearing recent complaints about a lack of information, the national company hosting a concert this summer in Ocean Park featuring the Boston Pops released final information about the event last week. The information provides ticket prices and a list of scheduled performers that includes both national and Island acts.
More Truth About Global Warming: John Bullard
Sea Education Association president and former New Bedford mayor John Bullard presents Global Warming: What’s Going On Here? What Do I Do About It? on Thursday, July 3, free at 5 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library. Mr. Bullard, who adapted his presentation from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, served in the Clinton/Gore administration. He…
Aquinnah Music Festival Spotlights Island Lineup
Aquinnah selectmen last Friday set a special town meeting for August 7 to reconsider a bylaw for the Island’s first energy district of critical planning concern. The bylaw, which would regulate alternative energy use in town, specifically the use of wind power, failed to achieve a two-thirds majority vote by four votes at the annual…
Juggler to Perform Family Show Saturday
The Martha’s Vineyard Library Association kicks off its 2008 summer reading program, Wild Reads at Your Library, with a lively performance by Bill Ross at the agricultural hall in West Tisbury at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 5. Mr. Ross, of Easthampton, has been performing as a professional juggler and clown since 1984. He appeared…
Power Boat Runs Into Sailboat at Tashmoo Channel
A power boat exiting Lake Tashmoo Sunday afternoon sustained heavy damage after it collided with a sailboat also exiting the narrow channel. Nobody was injured in the collision and both vessels were brought safely back into the harbor, although the power boat sustained extensive damage to its hull above the water line. Tisbury harbor master…
On Island Tables: Hospitality in a Pan
By CYNTHIA COWAN Hospitality in a Pan What is it with the pineapple as the universal symbol of hospitality? They don’t look or feel particularly inviting, and they aren’t very user friendly. While the sweet, tropical taste is lovely, it is far from warm and welcoming like, say, a cup of coffee. So why the…
Welcome Yury
Welcome Yury Aline Honorato and Paul DeMoraes of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Yury Da Silva DeMoraes, on June 16 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Yury weighed 7 pounds, 3.8 ounces at birth.
Piano Restoration Company Welcomes Visitors Sunday
Piano Restoration Company Welcomes Visitors Sunday Stanwood & Company invites the public to visit the piano workshop at 50 Lamberts Cove Road, West Tisbury, on Sunday, July 6, for its first-ever open house in celebration of 28 years of service, tuning and restoring pianos on the Island. The workshop will be open to the public…
Food Waste is Key to Farmers’ Success
Coffee grinds, apple cores and curly orange carrot peels: straight to the trash they go in most households. But on Island farms, these food scraps (along with egg shells, wilted greens and watermelon seeds) go to the compost. For the farmers, this trash is treasure. “It’s like crop insurance,” explained Jim Athearn of Morning Glory…
Love and War and Grace Potter: Musing on Rock’s Nocturnal Tour
Grace Potter is two hours into her summer tour and she’s already laughing. The woman who throws herself at a Hammond B-3 organ with a force that can only be described as feral retains her cheerful sense of rock and roll social awareness. “Yeah, we’ve got a new vehicle,” she reports. “A sprint-er.”
Piglets Born
Piglets Born Purebred Berkshire piglets were born Monday, June 23 at Native Earth Teaching Farm at 94 North Road in Chilmark. People may see the piglets and their mother Clover during the farm’s visiting hours, which are Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. More information is available by calling at 508-645-3304,…
Hello, Gannon and Lucy
Hello, Gannon and Lucy Lisa Magnarelli-Magden and Laura L. Denman-Magden of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son and daughter, Gannon Thomas Gathright Magden and Lucy Stanton Love Magden, born on June 18 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Big sister Georgia welcomes them. Gannon weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces at birth, and Lucy…
Towns Will Form Cellular Oversight Board
Selectmen in the three up-Island towns agreed last week to form a five-member board of overseers and rewrite a request for proposals for a planned distributed antennae system aimed at improving cellular telephone service. At a meeting Friday selectmen from the three towns said they would keep working toward an intermunicipal agreement.
Announcing Maeve
Announcing Maeve Caitlin Cook and Calder Martin of Chilmark would like to announce the birth of their daughter, Maeve Youngblood McKoin Cook-Martin, on June 17 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Maeve weighed 9 pounds, 10.8 ounces at birth.
Auction Raises Funds for Vineyard Habitat
Suits and gowns floated around a crowded room at the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown Friday night, their occupants casually inspecting the art that covered the tables. Occasionally they’d put their cocktails down to sign their names next to a price. Chris Rasmussen moved with more purpose, weaving through the dapper group, making sure everything…
Minister’s Sunday Sermon is About Jefferson’s Bible
The Unitarian Universalist Society of Martha’s Vineyard hosts a guest minister, the Rev. Stephen M. Shick, on Sunday, July 6, at 11 a.m. at its chapel at 238 Main street, Vineyard Haven. Reverend Schick will preach on Jefferson’s Bible and Yours.
Art for Kids
Art for Kids Art for Kids with Mickey Stone is a new program at the M.M. Stone Gallery at 671 State Road in West Tisbury. Opening this week, weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., the summer season offers classical art classes in drawing, painting, sculpture and design. Make a reservation or just drop in.…
Rev. Heuss Offers Personal Preaching on Grief
The Rev. William B. Heuss, priest in charge of Trinity Episcopal Church in Oak Bluffs, will preach and celebrate the service at Trinity on Sunday, July 6 and Sunday, July 13. The services will start at 9 a.m.
Tennis Center Change
Tennis Center Change Ken Martin, co-founder of the Vineyard Tennis Center, Workout and Spa, is stepping aside in the coming weeks after a 12-year partnership with Connie McHugh. Ms. McHugh will then assume full ownership. Mr. Martin designed and has maintained the tennis and health club facility since 1996. His vision and direction have resulted…
Boys’ Soccer Team Plays to a Final Match At Weekend State Champion Tournament
The Vineyard sent three youth soccer teams to the Massachusetts Tournament of Champions in Lancaster this past weekend and had one team — the boys’ 11-and-under squad — qualify for the championship game by winning three grueling preliminary games against some of the toughest teams in the state.
Housing Bank Bill Approved by Senate, Faces House Action
Almost exactly two years after its last defeat in the state legislature, a proposal to impose a one per cent tax on the sale of higher-cost homes to pay for affordable housing on the Vineyard is again set to go before the House. Two separate bills — one relating to the Vineyard and the other…
Please Don’t Feed the Turkeys
Please Don’t Feed the Turkeys The bizarre Father’s Day incident in Chilmark in which a turkey attacked people delivering baby equipment and then two town police officers — an episode that ended with the turkey dead and its owner facing assault charges — has drawn chuckles across the Island. At its core, however, the episode…
News Update: Wednesday, July 2 – Katie Mayhew Wins Sing-Off
She’s top of the Pops: Katie Mayhew last night won the Boston Pops High School Sing-Off at Symphony Hall. The 16-year-old Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School student earned the chance to perform with the orchestra at Friday’s Fourth of July Pops concert on the Esplanade. Katie sang Being Alive, from the musical Company, throughout the…
Oyster Cleanup to Take Weeks, Tribal Leaders Tell Selectmen
The natural resources director of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) told the town selectmen on Friday that the cleanup from oyster aquaculture project gone astray in Menemsha Pond will be finished in five or six weeks. “We’ll keep at it until we complete it,” Bret Stearns told the Aquinnah selectmen Friday morning. Thousands…
Vineyard Notebook: A Dancer’s Legacy
A Dancer’s Legacy Pretty straw hats hung in the trees on Saturday afternoon at The Yard, a quiet adornment to the hushed, leafy campus off Middle Road in Chilmark that has served as a summer colony and retreat for dancers and choreographers for thirty five years. A small crowd gathered to remember the life of…
Breaking News: Thursday, July 3 Noon – Accident at Five Corners Snarls Traffic
A taxi owned by Adam Cab crashed into a utility pole on Lagoon Pond Road across from the Tisbury post office early Thursday morning, snarling traffic at the Five Corners intersection for several hours on one of the busiest days of the year. The accident occurred around 7 a.m., just as the early morning boats…
Precious Commodity: Gas Thieves Strike Edgartown Harbor
In the wake of record-high gasoline and diesel prices across the Vineyard, there have been at two reported incidents in recent weeks of fuel being stolen from boats in the Edgartown harbor. Edgartown harbor master Charles Blair confirmed yesterday that he had received two reports from boat owners that gas had been taken from boats…
Island Plan is not a Spectator Sport
As the Island Plan moves into its second summer feedback period, I’d like to offer an update on the work we’ve been doing and a few of the issues that have arisen, and invite you to help chart the future of the Vineyard. Two key issues will be at the fore in the coming months:…
