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
November 13, 2009
News Update: Tuesday, November 17 – School Flu Clinics Set in Edgartown, Tisbury
The next round of school flu vaccination clinics has been scheduled — the Edgartown School will have its clinic on Thursday, Nov. 18 and the Tisbury School is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 19.
Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss has sent notices and forms to parents at all Island schools notifying them…
News Update: Tuesday, November 17 – Tisbury Voters Spend Big
Tisbury voters overwhelmingly endorsed a plan to spend some $7 million on a new emergency services facility at Tuesday’s special town meeting.
Concerns that townspeople might not be in a spending mood, given the tough economy, proved unfounded, and the article providing for the bulk of the money — $6.8 million — was…
American Art Exhibit at Tisbury School
Through the effort of the Tisbury School librarian, Patricia Ryan, and a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Tisbury School is showcasing an exhibition, Pictures of America, which documents the history of America through major American artists and their work.
The posters not only feature famous paintings, but sculptures, photography…
Give Different
Give Different
Holiday gifts don’t always come wrapped in paper and tied with a bow. On Sunday, Nov. 15, the Federated Church is introducing an alternative way to give at a Mission Fair scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Parish House, 45 South Summer street, Edgartown. In addition to a presentation…
Leonid Meteor Shower
The Leonid shower gets its name from where ancient astronomers believed it originated: the meteors appear to radiate from the zodical constellation Leo. Modern-day astronomers know the meteors only appear to come from the constellation. These small particles of debris entering our atmosphere and burning up are in orbit around the sun; much closer than…
Aquinnah
JUNE MANNING
508-645-2574
(lthslnks@gis.net)
The fall foliage display that we have enjoyed on the Vineyard is coming to an abrupt close with the leaves blowing off the trees and now dotting the landscape along the roadways. We have enjoyed beautiful weather this week with temperatures in the 60s and…
Popping, Hip-Hopping Evan Hall Boogaloos to New Studio in Next Move
It is Wednesday night in Vineyard Haven and Evan Hall’s weekly hip-hop dance class is ready to begin.
Sting Rays Play Tisbury
Sting Rays Play Tisbury
A dance party featuring the Sting Rays playing live music is set for Nov. 14 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Tisbury Senior Center in Vineyard Haven. Too shy to dance? There will also be an hors d’oeurves and drinks (non-alcoholic) table, and you can tap your toes…
Oak Bluffs School Rubs the Lamp
Oak Bluffs School Rubs the Lamp
Zen and the Art of Film, As Vineyard Meets Japan
The first live Island performance of Susan Klein and Alan Brigish’s online book, Martha’s Vineyard Now & Zen, will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.
The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society hosts the performance in conjunction with the acclaimed Japanese film Still Walking. Storyteller…
Haiti PeaceQuilts Project is Focus of Library Talk
The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library will present the first of their Sunday afternoon programs for the season on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. Author Nora Nevin and photographer Harvey Beth will be speaking about the Haiti PeaceQuilts Project. Refreshments will be served following the talk.
Mermaids’ Muse Loose in House of Blues
What if your muse becomes your shrink? Margot Datz didn’t really take her paintings of mermaids seriously until they began to speak to her like a Ouija Board, predicting divorce, life changes and pointing out a woman’s place in the landlocked world.
Garden Club Meeting
Garden Club Meeting
The Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club will hold its final general meeting of the year on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 1 p.m. at the Wakeman Center. The program scheduled is titled Holiday Creations. Wiet Bacheller, Mary Lou Perry and Kristin Henriksen, all members of the garden club, will present a brief…
Sophomores Speak Out
Some of you might know me from a couple of years back when I used to write for this column. I’m back again, this time as a senior and guest editor. This week, the sophomores discuss their feelings about a book they just read: Three Cups of Tea. In the book Greg Mortenson tries to…
Flu Clinic Early Birds Find Time for Coffee
We started off early this morning, to get our long awaited flu shots which were scheduled from 8 a.m. until noon. This had been on our calendar for weeks, during which time we tried not to get a cold, or anything else that could prevent our being there for it. We were rude to our…
Secretary Bowles Versus the Vineyard
Appropriate Scale
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to Sen. Robert O’Leary and Rep. Timothy Madden:
I appreciate the opportunity to meet with both of you over the past few weeks to discuss the draft oceans plan. As we discussed, through this planning process, the commonwealth is…
Pushing up Daisies? Not Quite Yet
Sooner or later we’ll kick the bucket, buy the farm, push up the daisies, be hauled away in wooden pajamas or whatever. While waiting, there is a free service you just may want to consult, and then again you may not. Developed a decade or so ago, the original now has a number of rivals.…
Gazette Chronicle: Miss Hilde
Miss Hilde
From Gazette editions of November, 1984:
Provincetown-Boston Airlines resumed limited operations Sunday, two weeks after the Federal Aviation Administration took away its license for major safety violations. The airline expects to be back to its full fall schedule by early next week. Service began at the end of the…
Letters to the Editor
ERRORS AND OMISSIONS
Editors, The Vineyard Gazette:
The report of the Chilmark selectmen’s meeting in the Nov. 6 Gazette should have been titled “Reporter’s Errors and Omissions.” This story supposedly focused on my request that the selectmen reconsider their decision for the training rather than the removal of the dog that…
Successful Seizure
Successful Seizure
Affordable Housing’s Financial House
Affordable Housing’s Financial House
Warming Waters May Affect Fisheries
The waters around the Vineyard are warming and scientists believe this may account for a shift in fish populations here. Scientists with the National Marine Fisheries Service and their science center in Woods Hole recently released the results of an 18-month study that examined 40 years of fisheries data and the movement of more than…
Community Rallies Behind D’Arcy Family
After a fire destroyed the Oak Bluffs home of the D’Arcy family, thoughtful Islanders Leslie Hurd and Brie Barstow approached the owners of Nectar’s with a proposal for a community fundraiser to be held at the airport nightclub. Ms. Hurd then learned that Joanne Cassidy had the same idea and was hoping to perform with…
Mediation Program Marks 25 Years of Settling Disputes
The Martha’s Vineyard Mediation Program is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. To commemorate the milestone, we are hosting an event on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. at the Dukes County Court House in Edgartown.
Winter Farmers’ Market Gets Under Way Saturday
The first West Tisbury Winter Farmers’ Market will be held on Nov. 14 at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors can come have lunch, shop, spend time and bring their families. There will be music and possibly demonstrations.
Winter markets sell locally grown and raised stored vegetables,…
Vineyard Power Presentation Discusses Island Energy Use
Vineyard Power, a community-owned cooperative that seeks to engage Islanders in reducing their energy rates through renewable energy generation, will be the subject of a community presentation and discussion at the Chilmark Free Public Library on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 5:30 p.m.
Suzanne Slarsky Dael of the Vineyard Energy Project will speak as…
Board of Trade Asks Selectmen for Fireworks Funds
The Edgartown board of trade is getting an early start on planning next year’s Fourth of July fireworks over the outer harbor. On Monday, board member and Main street merchant Claudia Canerdy asked the selectmen if the town would consider absorbing half of the cost of the annual show for next year.
Commonwealth Care Bridge Health Holds Public Meeting
The Vineyard Health Care Access Program is holding a public information meeting for legal permanent residents who used to have Commonwealth Care health insurance and lost their coverage due to state budget cuts. The new plan, called Commonwealth Care Bridge Health Plan, began for most of these members on Martha’s Vineyard on Nov. 1.
…
Lunch Hour Health Talks
Lunch Hour Health Talks
A monthly series of lunch hour health talks with registered nurse Nicole Barlett will begin on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 11 a.m. at the Tisbury Senior Center with a program on osteoporosis. She will describe ways for all ages to nourish bones with diet; exercise will be included as…
Hebrew Center Invites All to Veterans Shabbat
Veterans, merchant mariners and others involved in past and present service will be honored at the Shabbat service tonight, Nov. 13, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center. An Oneg Shabbat with refreshments will follow the service honoring veterans. The Island community is invited to the service.
Gus Ben David Joins Waterfowl Hall of Fame
Gus Ben David of Edgartown, who for years ran the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary and now runs the World of Reptiles and Bird Park in Edgartown, is already a celebrity in the world of naturalists. He has a wide international following of young and old alike.
And now he has another feather in…
Sponsor a Holiday Dinner For Needy Island Family
The Vineyard Committee on Hunger, Serving Hands and Family to Family, along with Reliable Market, are working together to ensure that Island families in need will have a great Thanksgiving meal. Islanders can sponsor one of these families by contributing $25, which will cover the cost of one family’s meal, Make checks out to the…
Flu Clinic Turns People Away, Short of Vaccine
The flu outbreak at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School appears to have subsided this week, but the majority of Island children still have not been immunized against swine flu, because local health authorities cannot secure enough vaccine.
And the all-Island clinic held on Wednesday to vaccinate people against seasonal flu, planned to…
Forum Will Showcase Platforms Of Candidates for Senate Seat
Islanders will get a chance tomorrow morning to learn first-hand about the four Democratic candidates looking to fill the Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate that was left vacant when longtime Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died in August.
A candidates forum will be held tomorrow morning at the Howes House in West…
Senior Discount
Senior Discount
Thursdays will be senior discount day at the Thrift Shop at Chicken Alley in Vineyard Haven. Everything in the Store will be 20 per cent off for seniors, age 55 and over. This discount will apply to all items in the store including those marked “not half.” The new senior discount…
Author, Filmmaker Kate Feiffer Joins Film Board
Kate Feiffer was elected to the board of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society at its Oct. 23 meeting.
A regular attendee at film society screenings for many years, Ms. Feiffer also assisted with the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival held in September.
Holiday Inn Helps
Holiday Inn Helps
Holiday Inn, Falmouth is offering complimentary guest rooms to the families of those hospitalized from Wednesday, Nov. 27 through Friday, Nov. 29 or Tuesday, Dec. 24 through Thursday, Dec. 26. To arrange for the Holiday Inn complimentary guest rooms, relatives of patients at Falmouth Hospital may call, 508-540-2000.
Museum Exhibit Honors Island Servicemen and Women
On Saturday, Nov. 28 at 3 p.m. the Martha’s Vineyard Museum celebrates the opening of its new exhibit, Those Who Serve — Martha’s Vineyard and World War II, with an afternoon program featuring Vineyard veterans of World War II. Guest speakers will include Ted Morgan of Edgartown, who served as a medic with the 505…
Foibles and Fumbles: Tough Year For Football and Field Hockey
After a season fractured by illness that forced the cancellation of several practices and games, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School field hockey team had to endure even more adversity last week when they drew Nantucket in the opening round of the MIAA Division II south tournament.
The Vineyarders lost 2-1 in a…
Rental Assistance Money is Covered For Three Months
It appears that tenants will be secure at least through January in the four Island towns where rental housing contracts were put in jeopardy two weeks ago, when the Island Affordable Housing Fund could not pay the monthly subsidies.
Seven Million Dollar Questions to Face Tisbury Voters Tuesday
Tisbury voters will be asked to defy the weak economy and spend big at a special town meeting Tuesday night. Articles on the warrant call for spending more than $7 million.
The bulk of it, $6.8 million in new borrowing, is earmarked for the construction, equipping and furnishing of the town’s long-planned and…
Third Test for Wind Bylaw, Rewritten for Aquinnah to Pass
If is true that the third time is a charm, then town leaders in Aquinnah may see their long hours of hard work on a wind energy bylaw pay off when they bring it in front of voters at a special town meeting on Tuesday night.
Rejected twice by Aquinnah voters at town…
Heroin Bust Nets Two Suspected Dealers
Two men were arrested on felony drug charges on Tuesday as they were stepping off the ferry in Vineyard Haven, the latest in a series of major drug busts over the past year involving suspects either caught selling drugs here or trying to bring large amounts of heroin to the Vineyard.
The Martha’s…
The Vineyard Gardener
By LYNNE IRONS
I am pleased to report on the success of my new vegetable garden. Now granted there were several dismal failures of individual crops but all in all it was great and worth the effort. I was thinking about the point of it all. Indulge me as I wax philosophical. I…
Tribe Scores a Key Win In Fight Over Cape Wind
Six thousand years ago, according to native legend and scientific calculation, Nantucket Sound was dry land, and people probably lived and hunted and fished there. Until global warming caused the sea to rise and cover the place.
Ironically, the fact of that long-ago drowning now has become the basis of the latest challenge…
State Energy Secretary Delivers Concessions on the Oceans Plan
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission has been promised the final say over all wind power developments in Island waters, following a concerted campaign by all levels of Vineyard local government against a state plan earmarking them for commercial wind generation.
This was the message delivered to the Island from Ian Bowles, state Secretary of…
Corrections
Corrections
Keep Mum
Mum’s the word.
If you must speak, then sing out to the queen of autumn, the chrysanthemum. This quintessential fall flower is ubiquitous during this season and offers blooms of many colors.
Chrysanthemums are a very large group of plants with over 150 diverse species in the genus. Ox-eye daisy, feverfew,…
Chilmark
JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
(slaterjn@comcast.net)
Chilmark enjoyed another week of Indian summer with mild temperatures and sunshine. The crisper November days must be just ahead. The woods are still yellow and leafy and a pleasure to drive by.
Temperatures
Temperature: Precip.
Day Max. Min. Inches.
Fº Fº
Nov. 6 55 38 Trace
Nov. 7 48 29 .00
Nov. 8 59 41 .00
Nov. 9 63 37 .00
Nov. 10 65 53 .00
Nov. 11 65 51 .00
Nov. 12 54 47 .00
…
50th Annual Christmas Count
Wow, how time flies! Once again it is time to start planning for the 50th annual Christmas Bird Count, which will be held on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010.
Edgartown
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
(kathleencase@comcast.net)
This week was a bonus with the weather. I actually had the windows open to change the air in the house. It was a great weekend as we were in T-shirts at the Shed watching the Pats game.
Happy birthday to all who…
Oak Bluffs
HOLLY NADLER
508-274-2329
(hollynadler@gmail.com)
This usually happens when I’m riding the bus: I strike up a conversation with someone who soon gets around to expressing a deep-seated desire, “I’m really hoping to get a car.”
They’re confiding to the wrong person. They might as well say to me,…
Estêvão Arrives
Estêvão Arrives
Raquel Huguinim and Léonier H. da Silva of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son,Estêvão P. Huguinim, born on Nov. 6, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Estêvão weighed 6 pounds, 11.6 ounces at birth.
Hello Zoe
Hello Zoe
Nicole McCue Higgins and Anthony Higgins of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Zoe Nicole Higgins, born on Nov. 3, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Zoe weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces at birth.
Welcome Jeremy
Welcome Jeremy
Michele Veintimilla and Werner Garcia of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Jeremy Antonio Garcia Vientimilla, born on Nov. 7, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Jeremy weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces at birth.
Please Adopt Us
Please Adopt Us
Our cat of the week at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard is Oreo, a tuxedo black and white neutered male with four double white paws. He is super-awesome, friendly and just plain handsome; he loves everybody, other cats included — you must stop by and see this great cat.
