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
September 1, 2009
Accessible Kayaking
Accessible Kayaking
Vineyard Complementary Medicine’s physical therapy staff is joining Island Spirit Kayaks to offer individuals with physical challenges an opportunity to kayak in a safe accessible environment on Thursday, Sept. 10, at 2 p.m. at the Little Bridge, State Beach, Oak Bluffs. Interested parties must sign up by calling 508-693-3800.
Film Celebrates Island Community Heroes
The Stone Soup celebration of heroes, an awards ceremony featuring the late Walter Cronkite, originally held at the Tabernacle in July, 2000, featured as a film, will be rebroadcast on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m. on MVTV Channel 13, followed by a free reception for award winners, friends and supporters from 7 to 8…
Tuesdays Will be Different
Tuesdays Will be Different
Labor Day is next week and now the season begins to change. This is the season of decrescendo, when the swamp maples turn red, wild grapes and beach plums ripen and bluefish begin to run again near the shore.
When a School Becomes a Press Center
This feels like an only on Martha’s Vineyard story. Two weeks before the doors to my daughter’s school open for students, the cafeteria and gym are filled with reporters from around the globe. They await the arrival of President Obama and Ben Bernanke, who, after negotiating the narrow two-lane roads leading to the school, on…
Letters to the Editor
MEDFLIGHT UNAFFECTED
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Boston MedFlight would like to comment on the recent article titled Air Space Restrictions Disrupt Angel Flights Service After All, published on August 25.
First Family Footprints
First Family Footprints
President Finds a Room of His Own
As the sun bathes the beach and the dunes in early morning light, I drink my first cup of coffee and see a Coast Guard cutter patrolling up and down the ocean shore in place of the familiar fishing trawlers. It must be looking for those radical fundamentalists who have swum across the Atlantic with…
Cycle Martha’s Vineyard
Cycle Martha’s Vineyard
Cycle Martha’s Vineyard is a scenic recreational Island ride on Saturday, Oct. 17. Both the 100-kilometer and the makes a circuit of the Island, traveling along the Atlantic Ocean, Nantucket Sound, rolling farmland and the State Forest. The 50-kilometer route also offers breathtaking views. The event benefits Big Brothers Big…
Nessie Headed to Edgartown Great Pond
Nessie is not a sea monster but a portable cutterhead dredge, acquired by the Great Pond Foundation to increase the effectiveness of the Edgartown Great Pond’s openings to the sea, which are essential in improving the water quality and health of the pond.
Island Golfer Leaves U.S. Amateur Open
After qualifying for a berth in the U.S. Amateur Open, a tournament that has been won by the likes of Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, Island golfer Tony Grillo shot a disappointing 81 in the second round of match play last week, leaving him cut out of the following rounds of competition.
Grillo,…
Birthday Club Turns Parties Into Food Drives for Island Pantry
Sara Hohenthal celebrated the advent of her fourth year of life in typical birthday fashion: after collecting gifts from her family, a squad of smiling playmates treated her with birthday caroling, cake and more bow-wrapped presents — some purchased hesitantly by budget-pressed parents.
On each birthday since her fourth, nine-year-old Sara has celebrated…
Pushing the Pedals for Cancer Research
Vineyard Pedicab entrepreneurs Will and John Pasquina will host the first Pan-Martha Challenge, a 40-mile bikeathon across the Vineyard to raise money for cancer research and treatment at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, on Oct. 4 at 9:30 a.m.
Participants are asked to gather donations before pedaling from the Flying Horses Carousel in…
From Crawford to Chilmark, A Mother Protests for Peace
Three American soldiers were killed in combat in the Middle East during the week that President Obama spent vacationing on the Vineyard. Three more mothers lost their children, a sacrifice with which Cindy Sheehan is all too familiar. In 2004, her elder son Casey, then 24 years old, became one more casualty in a war…
Reporting Live From The Press Pool Bus, Where Tedium Rules
There is a burst of activity inside the White House press bus on Lobsterville Road in Aquinnah, a little before noon last Thursday, at the prospect of capturing footage of members of the First Family on bicycles. From a tiny vantage point halfway up the bus, Associated Press and Reuters photographers and a camera operator…
After Last Stop at Alley’s, And Storms of All Kinds, First Family Bids Farewell
At 4:23 p.m. on Sunday, the helicopters took off from the Martha’s Vineyard Airport, bringing to an end President Obama’s week-long first vacation since winning office, spent on the Island.
As Mr. Obama, his family and entourage took off, the clouds which had dumped some four inches of rain over the previous two…
Where to Put Temporary Offices After 30 Years?
Thirty years ago the town of Tisbury moved several departments into “temporary” accommodations, grandly called the town hall annex, opposite the elementary school on West Spring street. All this time later, they are still there.
Now, the town is looking to move them again, sometime around the end of this year, into alternative…
School Swine Flu Vaccines Planned to Avert Outbreak
Hoping to guard against an outbreak or worse of the H1N1 virus among young people this winter, a group that includes town health agents, the Vineyard Nursing Association and school leaders is moving forward with a plan to vaccinate the Island student population against the virus known as swine flu.
Members of the…
Governor Patrick Leads Remarks at Ceremony for Bradley Square
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick led a strong cast of dignitaries that appeared in Oak Bluffs on Friday at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Bradley Square affordable housing project.
The governor arrived shortly after 4 p.m. to speak on behalf of the Island Affordable Housing Fund and the Island Housing Trust, the two organizations…
