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
August 1, 2008
Corporate Refugee Makes Peace Amid Fleece at Island Alpaca
“They are cute!” exclaimed four-year-old Liam Rust, an alpaca enthusiast. It’s hard not to become one after seeing the herd at Island Alpaca. The animals graze in a nine-and-a-half-acre gold and green field in front of a Pennsylvania barn that’s nearing the end of its second century. On a recent summer afternoon, Heather Welch, a…
Chilmark
JANE N. SLATER 508-645-3378 (slaterjn@comcast.net) Welcome to August. Summer is moving on . . . are you keeping up? Farewell to our July visitors. We hope you all took home happy memories and will be back next year.
Glass, Paper, Cardboard: Recycling Riddle Solved
It is one of the enduring pieces of Martha’s Vineyard lore: you take your recycling to the transfer station, separate it as directed into containers for plastics, paper, cardboard, aluminum and so on, and then at the end of the day it all gets tossed in together and dumped. Like glass, the myth recycles endlessly.…
Sheriff’s Meadow: Tracking the Future
Sheriff’s Meadow: Tracking the Future This has been a painful summer for the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, the venerable Island conservation organization that was rocked at the outset of the season by the revelation that two of its signature sanctuaries had been dug up by an Island landscaper who was transporting native plants to a private…
Chappy Series to Finish on High Note
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival concludes its 2008 season on Thursday, August 7 at 8 p.m. with a performance by violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute. The program includes sonatas by Mozart, Brahms and Bartok.
These Summer Days Go to the Dogs
By LISA VANDERHOOP Ah, the dog days of summer. It’s an often used term, part of our vernacular, bringing to mind the hottest, most sultry days of the year. But where the did the phrase come from?
Chappy
JO-ANN TILGHMAN 508-627-7669 (tilghmanjb@aol.com) One of the things about August is that all of a sudden there seem to be far more meetings than occur over the rest of the summer. In addition to the regularly scheduled board and commission meetings, August is the time for annual meetings, especially if you are looking to get…
Catch a Dream at Outerland; Do It for Community Services
Even Art Buchwald had his dream. “I imagine it this way,” he wrote in a 2002 column in this newspaper. “I am going to be cremated and then have my ashes dropped over every cocktail party on Martha’s Vineyard. It’s the only way I can make all the parties held here in the summer. I…
Shine a Light
Shine a Light On an Island where the dire lack of low and moderately priced housing is a perennial issue, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission is right to require a public hearing on an affordable housing proposal from the developers of the Field Club in Edgartown.
Ex-CIA Lawyer Suggests Memo to Next President
Former CIA lawyer Vicki Divoll will deliver a talk titled Memo to Our New President: How to Fix Eight Years of Damage to U.S. Intelligence on Wednesday, August 6 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library. Ms. Divoll, former assistant general counsel for the CIA and former general counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee,…
Guide to Building Superior Sandcastles: Professional Shares Tricks of Beach Circuit
You don’t need to surf to be a professional beach bum; if you get good enough, you can travel the world carving sandcastles with a palette knife and an ice cream scoop. That’s what Lucinda “Sandy Feet” Wierenga does. Ms. Wierenga was this year’s winner of the Travel Channel’s Sand Blasters competition. She’s in Italy…
East Chop
RICK HERRICK 508-693-8065 herricklr@verizon.net Dr. Alex Walley is a faculty member at the Boston University School of Medicine where he trains residents and does research on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and substance abuse. He is also the medical director of a new pilot program with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for dealing with the…
Gazette Around the Island
Today’s Vineyard Gazette is being delivered to every mailbox on the Island. We hope you enjoy the news, issues, features, information and events calendar in today’s paper. If you would also enjoy a signed copy of Espresso Love proprietor Carol McManus’s new cookbook Table Talk: Food Family Love (retail price $22.95), you can get one…
Try This Onion Soup Dip for the Soul
Recently I was privileged to see a per formance of End Days written by Deborah Zoe Laufer and directed by Claudia Weill at the Vineyard Playhouse. This quirky family comedy underscores the vulnerabilities and aspirations of human beings who have survived trauma and the threat of annihilation. We laugh with the characters, who include a…
Photographer Nancy Ellison in Carol Craven Exhibit
Carol Craven Gallery welcomes the public to an artists’ reception on Sunday, August 3, for exhibitions of the following gallery artists: Christie Scheele’s show Changing Winds, her fifth with the gallery, is a selection of atmospheric landscape paintings of Martha’s Vineyard and New York.
Receives Degree
Receives Degree Zachary Townes of Edgartown graduated from Castleton State College in Castleton, Vt., in May with a bachelor of arts degree.
Edgartown
KATHIE CASE 508-627-5349 (kathleencase@comcast.net) This is the big weekend when the July people leave after their month or two-week visit and the August crowd arrives. Sometimes I think it is as busy as Memorial Day weekend. It is also the time we start thinking about the fair and waiting for the fireworks. Happy birthday to…
Board Proposes Road for Special Protection
The West Tisbury byways committee has recommended including the Dr. Fisher Road in an expanded Martha’s Vineyard Commission special ways protection zone, after hearing complaints from residents about an increasing number of dump trucks and trash haulers traveling on the road.
Letters to the Editor
PIVOTAL CHOICE Editors, Vineyard Gazette: The following letter was sent to the Dukes County Commission: Speaking as friends of the county, we believe that the manner in which the county commissioners fill the unexpired term of Paul Strauss will be both pivotal and crucial.
Groovy Sue: Artist Finds New Ideas in Garage Gallery of Old Things
It was a sensual delight and a writer’s demise, a step into a clichéd “different world.” Hypnotic trance reggae beats were clearly amplified from a Macintosh laptop computer. The transition was complete with a climate change, from the cool breeze off of Oak Bluffs’ Sunset Lake to the protected cove of Suesan Stovall’s garage. But…
Dean’s List
Dean’s List Duncan Pickard of Edgartown recently was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester at Tufts University.
Oak Bluffs
BETTYE FOSTER BAKER 508-696-9983 (bdrbaker@comcast.net) I had been a summer resident of Oak Bluffs for only a short time when a friend brought someone to my home she wanted me to meet. This was a woman who perhaps loved Oak Bluffs and the Vineyard as much as life itself.
House Bond Bill Would Fund Seawall
The Massachusetts House of Representatives last week unanimously approved an environmental bond bill with a healthy allocation of $1.5 million for Oak Bluffs to help repair the retaining wall along Sea View avenue that partially collapsed in February. The bill also includes $500,000 to build a new stand-alone public fishing pier adjacent to the Oak…
Summer Conventions Loom, Recalling A Bygone Era
The scene: a corridor in the Congress Hotel, Chicago. The time: mid-afternoon on a sultry July day in 1952. The cast: four or five radio reporters, a Chicago Tribune staffer, a photographer and a couple of reporters from the Associated Press and United Press. An air of expectation hovers over the scene.
Petite Painter’s Sunflowers Stand Tall
Ellen Liman has long had a love affair with Martha’s Vineyard — in particular with Vineyard beaches, Vineyard Sound and Vineyard flowers. But her love affair is more than that of the usual seasonal visitor. She’s been coming to the Island for 22 years. Each day she takes out her oil paints and canvases and,…
Dean’s List
Dean’s List Morning Star Tarter of Oak Bluffs, a nursing major at Simmons College in Boston, recently was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester.
Vineyard Haven
NANCY GARDELLA 508-693-3308 (vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com) Congratulations to everyone’s friend, Neal Maciel, who has just been promoted to head our state troopers. Neal is hardworking, efficient, caring and a great person. He’s one of our Island’s own. We couldn’t be happier.
Hostel Provides Inexpensive Base for Exploring Island
Up in West Tisbury, past the airport but before the Mill Pond, is a small building. A part of both Island and national history, it serves as a social and cultural melting pot and a way to track economic trends. It is the Lillian Manter Memorial Hostel and, on a recent Tuesday morning shortly after…
Lesson Buried in Children’s Drawings
There are times in our lives when incidents in the lives of people we do not know take on such profound meaning that we want to learn more. For me that came through a conversation with my husband, Bill Baker. He had heard the Very Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski, dean of The Cathedral Church…
WIMP Revival: Improv Theatre Sees Some Home Improvements
On a Wednesday evening in July, members of Island groups the IMPers and the newly re-formed WIMPs walk through Grange Hall in West Tisbury seeking that proof of spontaneity which is customary to any improv show: suggestions from the audience. “We need a playwright,” they say. Confident he has the perfect answer, a little blond-haired…
Dean’s List
Dean’s List Three Vineyard students were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester at Bridgewater State College. They are Jai L. Berger and Dawne M. Charters-Nelson of Vineyard Haven and Michael C. Pachico of Chilmark.
Welcome Maxwell
Welcome Maxwell Randy and Julie Kann James of Maynard are the proud parents of Maxwell Christopher James, who was born May 15 at the Emerson Hospital in Concord. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 1/2 ounces. The maternal grandparents are David and Mary Kann of Vineyard Haven and David and Jean James of Lancaster. The maternal…
Jessica Pisano Opens Art Exhibition Tonight
Jessica Pisano, founder of Belushi Pisano Gallery and an established artist, opens a new solo exhibition with a reception tonight, Friday, August 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the gallery on State Road in Vineyard Haven. Over the past decade, Ms. Pisano has combined her black and white photography with painting. Using her photography…
Receives Degree
Receives Degree Tonya Leonard, a member of the class of 2008 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., received a bachelor of science degree summa cum laude with honor in education studies. Prior to commencement, she received the John P. Shepard Prize in Education Studies, named in honor of a former professor and given annually…
All the World’s A Stage at Tashmoo
Every summer the Vineyard Playhouse presents a Shakespeare play in the al fresco amphitheatre at the Tashmoo Overlook in Vineyard Haven, and those in the know about one of the very “funnest” things to do in the high season, are on hand to appreciate it.
Dean’s List
Dean’s List Two Vineyard students have been named to the dean’s list at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., for spring quarter 2008. They are Tara Reynolds of Edgartown, who is an illustration major, and Alice Hopkins of Vineyard Haven, who is an architecture major.
Opening Reception
Opening Reception The Granary Gallery at the Red Barn invites all to an opening reception Sunday, August 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. at its Old County Road space in West Tisbury. The new exhibition features Steve Mills’s new photo-realist paintings of familiar objects and Vineyard scenes, Anda Styler’s impressionistic plein air-style acrylics depicting Island…
Nukes, Kooks and Spooks Lead Writer To Compelling Iraq War Story, Curveball
It was U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Feb. 5, 2003 address to the United Nations which convinced Bob Drogin that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Until then, said Mr. Drogin, who covers issues of weapons proliferation, terrorism and intelligence — nukes, kooks and spooks — out of Washington for the…
Black-Owned Businesses Dwindle on Island
Black-owned businesses on Martha’s Vineyard span its economic and cultural niches while catering to a general audience. They are inns, art galleries, boutiques and restaurants as well as service providers from real estate to holistic weight loss. But many African American business owners, year-rounders, vacationers and community leaders agree that, given the Island’s history and…
For 40 Years, a Standing Ovation
Twenty years ago, a quiet nonprofit organization celebrated its 20th anniversary in signature humble style.
Photo Exhibition Delves Into Irony and Politics
Domestic Secrets, an exhibition of photographs by Julie Jaffe, opens with a reception this evening, Friday, August 1, from 5 to 6:45 p.m. at the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard in Chilmark, across from the Community Center on State Road.
Sustainable Garden Design
Sustainable Garden Design
Ocean Suffers When Menhaden Go Missing
Overfishing may be the buzz word on the waterfront to explain the decline of many stocks of fish around Vineyard waters, but it isn’t heard often enough when it comes to explaining the loss of bait fish. On Wednesday night at the Chilmark Public Library, a lone man stood before an audience of anglers and…
Island Sewn: Sustainable Style Lets You Look Good, Be Good
Swiss-born designer Stina Sayre has fashion in her genes. “I love to design, that’s what I do,” she said recently from her Vineyard Haven studio and store. “I come from a clothing family in Sweden. My grandfather started a clothing company and my uncles took it over. I worked in the business as a kid,”…
Under the Sea With No Paddle but a Pencilina
The pencilina is like an instrument from Dr. Seuss’s The Butter Battle Book. It’s got bass and treble necks with movable bridges and open strings which can be plucked, played with a bow and manipulated with drumsticks. It is mounted with four bells: a fire bell, a doorbell, and two brass telephone ringers.
Scoop Up Fun With Run
Scoop Up Fun With Run The annual Vineyard Scoops Fun Run begins Sunday, August 3, at The Farm Institute, with an 8:45 a.m. fun run for tots and 9 a.m. 5K run/walk for all. Entry is $15 in advance or $20 on race day for the 5K. It’s $5 for fun run, or $50 to…
Crowd Embraces Second Hand Store’s Former Managers at Party
Skip Petersen sat on the porch of the Midnight Mermaid Tuesday evening with a journal open in her lap. Apparently oblivious to the throng of people in thrift shop attire that surrounded her, she scrawled in the journal her thoughts and blessings to Darlene Kelly and Penny Townes, who were fired from their posts at…
Dean’s List
Dean’s List Three Vineyard residents were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester at Northeastern University in Boston. They are Linda Cheng of Vineyard Haven, who is majoring in economics; Jenna Corey of Edgartown, who is majoring in criminal justice; and Hannah Van Osten of Oak Bluffs, who is majoring in behavioral…
Built on Stilts Slots
Built on Stilts Slots A few available performance slots for the Island’s dance festival coming August 15 to 19 and 23 and 24. Please e-mail Built on Stilts Director, Abby Bender, at shakes9999@yahoo.com or visitbuiltonstilts.org for more information. Theater, dance, improvisation and music are welcome. Final programming due by August 5.
Chapter Eleven: Barking Up the Wrong Tree
In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after many years to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe has paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-Island wholesale nursery (and Abe’s ex-wife’s new beau). In recent…
Open Artist’s Cabinet of Curiosities
It is a pleasure this season to see an exhibition of paintings in which the subject is a serious exploration of an artist’s personal landscape. The show of paintings by Sherrill Blalock opening tonight with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Louisa Gould Gallery is such an exhibition. Appropriately named Cabinet of…
Have a Question in Oak Bluffs? Ask Cee-Jay Jones
The little information booth sits in downtown Oak Bluffs, an ornate yellow and red axis around which the machinery of summer seems to rotate. At 9 a.m. on a July Saturday morning, the breeze moves through the booth window and out the open door. Laced with buttered popcorn and the whine of passing mopeds, it…
Aquinnah
JUNE MANNING 508-645-2574 (lthslnks@gis.net)
Gazette Chronicle: Diving for Dollars
Diving for Dollars From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August, 1983: Every day during the summer a small band of young swimmers gathers at the beach near the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority wharf. Wearing underwater masks, and fins in some cases, they tread water and await the arriving boats from the mainland.
Menemsha Sunset
Though hundreds will go to Menemsha to see the sunset this weekend, there is an even better event that follows afterward without anyone having to move.
Kids Can Find Their Own Moves in Yard Programs
The Yard Arts! Kids, Family and Community festival programming continues. Besides the free family Saturday matinees every week (see above), The Yard is offering one more kids’ creative theatre workshop, an upcoming opportunity for kids to perform at the Tabernacle, and the Multi-Generational Performance Project with Sarah Wilbur.
Rabbi Hosts World Debut of Photo Show
Lori, Jonas and Rabbi Joshua Plaut are hosting two special summer art happenings featuring a new photography show entitled Sparks of Splendor: Portraits of Jewish Women From East to West. Exhibition and artist’s receptions occur on Sunday, August 3 and Sunday August 10, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. in West Tisbury.
Spirit of Bermuda Brings Taste of Seagoing Training to Island
Sails and masts from Bermuda rose high over Vineyard Haven harbor this past weekend. The 89-foot, three-masted schooner Spirit of Bermuda made its first visit to the Island, a collaboration involving two nonprofit organizations, Sail Martha’s Vineyard and Boston MedFlight. The 2-year-old vessel’s inaugural visit was significant for a number of reasons.
The Vineyard Gardener
By LYNNE IRONS According to the Rodale Institute, switching conventional farmland to organic would cut greenhouse emissions by 10 per cent in the U.S. as sustainably farmed soil can absorb 30 percent more carbon.
Dean’s List
Dean’s List Devin M. Colter, the son of Richard and Deborah Colter of Edgartown, was named to the Ithaca College Dean’s List for the spring semester 2008. Mr. Colter plans to enter the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in the fall to major in filmmaking and photography. He is a 2007 graduate of…
Island Plan Forum
Island Plan Forum The next Island Plan summer forum, which will deal with the Vineyard’s built environment, will be held Monday, August 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Union Chapel on Kennebec avenue in Oak Bluffs. The forum will discuss Vineyard buildings, neighborhoods, streetscapes and public spaces. At the forum, the Island Plan Built Environment Work…
Yard Offers Drumming, Dancing, Comedy, Songs — and a Free Family-Friendly Show
The Yard promises a high-energy, laugh aloud evening of work by three very different artists: Jamal Jackson Dance Company (African/hip hop/contemporary dance), performance artist Claire Porter, and solo dancer Lorraine Chapman share the stage on Friday and Saturday, August 1 and 2 at 8 p.m., with a free family matinee on Saturday at 4 p.m.…
Summer Guide to Fine Art Galleries: Exhibits, Information and Locations
Alison Shaw Gallery Fine are photography of Alison Shaw. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m., or by appointment at 88 Dukes County avenue, Oak Bluffs, tel. 508-696-7429 or alisonshaw.com. Current exhibit: Black and White continues through August 8. Abode Gallery and Shop Paintings, photography and sculpture. Open by appointment at 224 Oak…
The Fishermen
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL This is a summer of leatherback sea turtle sightings by local fishermen. Capt. Dick Smith of the charter fishing boat Patriot Too has seen quite a few of these large sea turtles in Vineyard waters. “During the summer, the jellyfish come through Nantucket and Vineyard sounds,” Mr. Smith said. “Leatherback sea…
Osprey Men
There are three people that I consider osprey men: Rob Bierregaard, Gus Ben David and Tim Baird. On Tuesday night, Rob gave a talk about ospreys. For those of you that were unable to attend, you missed a good one. For those of you that did attend, bear with me as I review some of…
Summer Sales: Mixed Review
While some business owners predicted a bleak summer season on the Vineyard due to record high gasoline prices and a sagging national economy — an outlook made worse by the devastating Fourth of July fire in Vineyard Haven — the mid-term economic report card for the season has so far been a mixed bag.
On the Waterfront Writer Is Still a Contender at Stage Premiere
In 1954, Budd Schulberg wrote his Academy Award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. Now 94, the writer and playwright traveled from Menemsha to Scotland this week to see a new stage version of the classic film performed at the Edinburgh International Festival. “I’m really looking forward to this,” Mr. Schulberg said over the phone before…
Vineyard Playhouse Develops Shows With Legs
Vineyard Playhouse patrons might be forgiven for a feeling of deja vu when viewing the lineup of mainstage shows Cambridge’s new Central Square Theatre selected for its first season. Two shows opened this past weekend — QED: An Evening with Richard Feynman and Coming Up for Air, An AutoJazzography — and both productions were developed…
Jazzing Up YMCA Capital Campaign
Echoes of the Roaring Twenties (think Cotton Club meets The Great Gatsby) will surface this Sunday, August 3, at the Starbuck’s Neck home of Susan and Jim Swartz when Vince Giordano and his 11-piece Nighthawks jazz band serenade at Sunday Brunch And All That Jazz, an inspired fund-raising idea from noon to 4 p.m. to…
July 25: Heavy Rain Overnight
Friday, July 25: Heavy rain overnight. The landscape is dripping wet from a night of thunderstorms. More storms in the afternoon. Loud rumbling thunder echoes through the streets of Vineyard Haven. Large puddles slow nightlife traffic in Oak Bluffs.
Dark, Rich Huckleberries
For a moment there, the jam project seemed to be a huckleberry over my persimmon. This old English saying means just a bit over my ability; and when my huckleberry jam turned rock hard last week, I thought that I might be in just that kind of pickle. With the Slow Food dinner a day…
Selectmen Sign Deal To Buy Home Port at Far Lower Price
Chilmark selectmen signed an agreement Tuesday to purchase the Home Port restaurant, along with two neighboring waterfront lots, for a dramatically reduced price of $2 million. The agreement, negotiated by selectman J.B. Riggs Parker on behalf of the board of selectmen with owners Will and Madeline Holtham, is almost half the price of a $3.9…
Ensign MacLaren Takes Nuclear Power Training
Navy Ensign Brett A. MacLaren, the son of Navy Capt. Ron J. MacLaren of Oak Bluffs, recently completed the Navy nuclear power training unit course at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, Goose Creek, S.C. Ensign MacLaren received instruction about nuclear theory, chemistry, physics, reactor operations, safety and security. Upon completion of the course, he was…
Peace Group to Rally Against Iran War Plans
Concerned that the Bush administration has stepped up its threats against Iran, peace groups, including the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council, are holding No War on Iran rallies on Saturday, August 2. The Vineyard rally will be at Five Corners at 1 p.m. Organizer Chris Fried notes that on July 22, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice…
All Island Art Show Turns 50, Opening Monday at Tabernacle
On a sunny August morning in 1990, a retired lawyer living on the Vineyard was setting up his presentation for that year’s All Island Art Show at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs. “I’m getting back into the spirit of Martha’s Vineyard,” he told a Gazette reporter at the time. It was a comment the reporter…
Della Brown Hardman Day Celebrates Island Woman Who Savored Moment
Della Hardman, an artist, educator, writer and columnist, was a pillar of service in the Vineyard community. She died in December of 2005, but not before enjoying Oak Bluffs’ first Della Brown Hardman Day in July of that year. “We didn’t realize it would be her last year,” Ms. Hardman’s daughter, Andrea Taylor, said of…
Class on Fly-Fishing
Class on Fly-Fishing A fly-fishing class will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, August 9, at the Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club off Third street North in Edgartown. Sandra Demel and John Kollett will provide individualized instruction. Equipment will be provided or feel free to use your own. The class size is…
Island Internet Pioneers Recall First Bytes
The Internet did not arrive on the Island by chance, like the skunk and the raccoon. It was deliberately brought here by an anxious group of like-minded computer enthusiasts. Twenty years ago, it wasn’t even known on the Vineyard as the Internet. Today, business on the Island doesn’t get done without a byte or a…
Skip Petersen Will Show Paintings at Featherstone
Skip Petersen, a graduate of the Pratt Institute of Fine Arts, presents a gallery show of her work, which she defines as “abstract oil in very bright colors” — hence the title of the show, Brilliance. The exhibition opens tomorrow, Saturday, August 2, at the Pebble Building of Featherstone Center for the Arts, with a…
Che’s Monday Poetry Jam Adds Music to Hot Words
Che’s Lounge hosts an eclectic Poetry and Music Jam on Monday, August 4. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and features the Hot Words Collective — Justen Ahren (Jen Brown’s Brother), Samantha Barrow, Linda Black, Richard C. Skidmore, Michael West and Ben Williams.
Extra, Extra: Back Porch Party Also Benefits the Y
What do windsurfing, fashion design and the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard have in common? Water. Nevin and Stina Sayre of Vineyard Haven have a lot of experience in and around the water, and their belief in its importance to the Island population has inspired them to host a fundraising party for the YMCA on Wednesday,…
Stable Friendships Build Pond View Horse Farm
Long before dawn, you can hear the soft munching of hay and quiet nickering of horses at Pond View Farm as Sarah Doyle prepares for another 6 a.m. trip off-Island to a horse show. Sarah moved to the Island in 1986 and began teaching riding lessons at Arrowhead Farm in West Tisbury. She began living…
Parish Contributes Funds To Catholic Charities
Parish Contributes Funds To Catholic Charities The Martha’s Vineyard Parish of the Good Shepherd contributed $20,450 to the 2008 Catholic Charities Appeal in the Diocese of Fall River. The diocesan appeal raised just under $4.3 million. The final tally is $10,052 below last year’s record high, representing a decrease of approximately two tenths of one…
U.S. Energy Crisis Sees Sierra Club Unite With Foes
T. Boone Pickens is a Republican billionaire from Texas who handsomely funded the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry. Carl Pope is a veteran of the environmental movement, executive director of the Sierra Club and fierce critic of both George Bush and John McCain. That the two men are in furious agreement on the need…
Island Insurance Agency Hires Account Executive
Island Insurance Agency Hires Account Executive Martha’s Vineyard Insurance Agency has added Carrie-Lynn Whitney to its sales staff at its Edgartown office. Ms. Whitney, a 20-year veteran in the insurance industry, has joined the agency as an account executive. Most recently, she has been employed as a benefits consultant handling national accounts. She has relocated…
Temperatures
Temperature: Precip. Day Max. Min. Inches. Fº Fº July 25 76 68 2.47 July 26 79 64 Trace July 27 82 69 .00 July 28 82 64 1.01 July 29 82 67 Trace July 30 86 66 .00 July 31 82 69 .02
Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 76º F.
Atria Chefs Say Secret to Summer Menu Is Simple: Fresh, Local Food Tastes Good
“Summer in a dish,” Christian Thornton says of the Seared George’s Bank Scallops and Summer Heirloom Tomatoes dish he and his team prepare, a variation of the seared scallop dish on the menu at Atria on Main street, Edgartown. The restaurant’s chef and owner says this dish is all about simplicity, “You want to let…
