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
June 7, 2011
ER Director Cites Concerns About New Tri-Town Chief
Acting over the objection of the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital emergency room, Chilmark selectmen voted to appoint Paul (Zeke) Wilkins as permanent chief of the tri-town ambulance service on Tuesday night.
Dr. Jeffrey Zack expressed frank concerns about whether the new chief has enough experience to lead the rural ambulance squad…
MSPCA Fund Will Help Island Pet Owners
A new $10,000 fund to subsidize pet health care for Island families is an unexpected bonus that will be part of the final transfer of the Edgartown animal shelter site originally donated by Katharine M. Foote.
The fund, which will be formally announced at a meeting of the Dukes County Commissioners today, is…
Breaking News: Tuesday, June 7 – Oak Bluffs Violated Public Bidding Laws, Attorney General Rules
The state Attorney General issued a severe reprimand to the town of Oak Bluffs Tuesday for a long list of violations of state public bidding laws between 2009 and 2011. Citing “a pattern of disregard and certain evidence of intentional avoidance of public construction bidding laws,” the attorney general upheld a protest that had been…
Decision Stands: No Tour Vans in Downtown Edgartown
The town of Edgartown’s decision to bar a sightseeing tour van charter business from its downtown streets is sound, the state Department of Public Utilities has ruled.
“The decision by the Edgartown selectmen that [tour van] service should be limited to two-way streets is reasonable,” the DPU wrote in a decision released this…
Regional High School Class of 2011, Top 11
Mary Harrington, tied for valedictorian of the class of 2011, the daughter of Pamela Logan of Vineyard Haven. She will attend Wellesley College in Wellesley in the fall.
Sarah Johnson, tied for valedictorian of the class of 2011, is the daughter of Debra Swanson and Richard Johnson of Oak Bluffs. She will attend…
Mission Accomplished: Charter School Graduates Commence in Personal Style
Among them sat an aspiring novelist, an award-winning poet, a future math teacher, budding music-producer, businesswoman and food aficionado. The class of 2011 at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School graduated Sunday afternoon to the cheers of friends, family and teachers. With tears streaming down their cheeks and smiles on their faces, they accepted their…
Poetry
Featherstone Kicks Off Poetry Season
Be prepared to get word drunk on Thursday at 7 p.m. when poets Dawn Lundy Martin and Ronaldo V. Wilson read at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. The event is the kickoff to the summer poetry series at Featherstone which later in the summer will…
Farmers’ Market Begins
Farmers’ Market Begins
The outskirts of the Grange Hall in West Tisbury will once again be the place to be beginning this Saturday, June 11. That’s when the farmers’ market gets under way.
The market is open from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and Wednesdays through October 8. It’s a…
Lighthouse Challenge
Lighthouse Challenge
Here’s a challenge that in reality is more of a delight. It’s the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce fourth annual lighthouse challenge taking place Saturday, June 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The task is elementary but breathtaking. Visit all five lighthouses on the Island in one day.…
Compost Tea Time
Compost Tea Time
Polly Hill and pizza, it just rolls off the tongue. But where does compost fit into that pairing? In a series of upcoming events, of course.
On Saturday, June 11 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the arboretum is hosting a compost tea workshop with Christopher Roddick, the…
Shucking Tournament
Shucking Tournament
On your mark, get ready, shuck!
That’s right, all you armchair shuckers, time to get out of the seedbed and put your oyster knife where your mouth is. Nancy’s restaurant is holding its 2011 shucking contest this Saturday, June 11 from 1 to 4 p.m. Enter for glory or…
Pony Up
Pony Up
Meet the ponies at Netherfield Farm on Sunday, June 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be dressage and jumping demonstrations, free pony rides, hot dogs on the grill and farm tours.
Netherfield Farm is located in Chilmark, 137 Old Kings Highway, off Meeting House…
Cynthia Riggs Reads From Her Latest Mystery Novel
Detective Victoria Turnbull is at it once again, sleuthing out the latest Vineyard mystery in The Bee Balm Murders. The fictional character created by writer, activist and innkeeper Cynthia Riggs may be 92 years old, but she isn’t slowing down in the least.
Neither is her creator.
Aquinnah Cultural Center
Aquinnah Cultural Center
The Aquinnah Cultural Center opens its doors for the season on Saturday, June 11 at 1 p.m. This year, its sixth, the museum is extending its hours and will now close at 4 p.m. The museum exhibits center around traditional and 19th century Wampanoag culture and history.
Admission…
Striding from Shore to Shore, Cross-Island Hikers See Variety
As 42 people departed on foot from Sepiessa Point Reservation in West Tisbury at 9 a.m. sharp on Saturday morning, the air was a cool 50 degrees and the sky was clear blue. We were heading ultimately to Wilfred’s Pond Preserve in Vineyard Haven. The 15-mile walk would cross Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank properties, ancient…
Tuesday Chronicle: Stately Passages
From a Summer, 1992 Gazette:
“Edgartown, sometimes called Old Town, August 7, 1849. Half past five in the morning, and not another soul up in the house. A little rain last night, but a pretty fair and cool morning.” So wrote Daniel Webster at the Gibbs House in Edgartown on his second visit…
Farm Stand Renaissance
With the rolling fields of the Keith Farm next door and Lucy Vincent Beach in the distance, Chris Fischer tried to hand off a piglet over the fence at Beetlebung Farm
Vineyard Bookshelf
Editor’s Note: The Wampanoag Tribe of Martha’s Vineyard: Colonization to Recognition, is a newly published book by Thomas Dresser of Oak Bluffs. What follows is an excerpt from the chapter Sachems Under Duress. It appears here with permission from the author.
West Tisbury Marks Heart With Connection to Land over Sea
Some 30 years ago, longtime West Tisbury resident Harold L. Tinker, bibliophile and retired master of English at the Choate School, wrote a piece for this paper about his town, referring to it as “the loveliest village of the plain” — a phrase from Oliver Goldsmith’s poem The Deserted Village. I was a West Tisbury…
Keating Office Hours
Keating Office Hours
Rep. Bill Keating’s staff will be holding mobile office hours on the Vineyard on Monday, June 13, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Shepherd Fine Artspace, 8 Uncas avenue in Oak Bluffs.
This is to serve any Island residents who can’t visit the congressman’s office because of time…
Havlicek Celebrity Fishing Tournament Set to Turn 30
The John Havlicek Celebrity Fishing Tournament, a people-spotting fishing and golf tournament that raises money for the Genesis Fund, celebrates its 30th anniversary this week.
The contest has raised $2 million for the nonprofit organization committed to helping children with birth defects, genetic disorders and intellectual disabilities and their families.
The…
The Space Forced to Look For a New Flexible Space
The Space, located at the Triangle in Edgartown, will close at the end of the month unless an alternative space can be found, its founders announced “with regret” in a media release yesterday.
Opened in November of last year, the Space provided a home for IMP, Fit with Katryn, Zumba, MV Glee, Yoga…
Join Lyme Task Force
Join Lyme Task Force
The Cape and Islands Lyme Disease Task Force, an advisory body to Lyme disease prevention efforts in Barnstable County and the Islands, is looking for new members.
Vineyard Scene: Inn Squares Away 100 Years
Who can ask for more than to turn 100 looking better than ever, dancing into the next century with a bluegrass band crowd, plates filled high with cupcakes, and a happy crowd? We should all be so lucky. On Thursday night it was that kind of first-century birthday for the Vineyard Square Hotel and Suites,…
Bluefin Tuna Denied Endangered Status
Bluefin tuna — the center of a highly lucrative commercial fishery and heated controversy about overfishing — will not be listed as an endangered species, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last week.
“NOAA is formally designating both the western Atlantic and eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean stocks of bluefin tuna as species…
Win Sends Girls’ Tennis to Round Two
The girls’ high school tennis team advanced to the second round of the MIAA tournament after a tough 3-2 win over Cohasset on Monday afternoon. They will play number 2 seed Norwell in an away match on Wednesday.
Annie Burton took on Hannah Rawson at first singles, winning the first set 6-4 and…
Benefits Raise Funds for Independence Partnership
The Vineyard Independence Partnership (VIP) invites members, friends and potential friends to two June events: On June 7 at 5 p.m., VIP will be hosting a walk at Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury, followed by a pizza supper. A $5 contribution to Polly Hill and RSVP are requested. The rain date will be June…
Fresh Air
Fresh Air
This summer, share the beauty of your community and help an inner-city child enjoy new experiences such as swimming in a cool pond and catching fireflies. Join thousands who open their hearts and homes to New York city children from low-income communities through the Fresh Air Fund’s Volunteer Host Family program,…
Hart Benton Landscape Set for Auction
A Thomas Hart Benton Vineyard landscape painting will go on the auction block Thursday at the Swann Galleries in New York city. The painting is from Mr. Benton’s early work, estimated to have been painted in the 1920s when Mr. Benton and his wife, Rita, first began summering on the Vineyard. Titled Landscape, Martha’s Vineyard,…
Blessings and Baptism of Fleet Offer Safe Passage for Summer
More than 40 boats and as many captains received the annual blessing of the fleet on Sunday to begin the boating season, which for many is well underway.
Menemsha Harbor is made up of commercial fishing boats and a wide variety of different-sized recreational boats; nearly all of them were honored. A crowd…
Islanders Rally to Help Iraq Veteran in Need
The past year has been a difficult one for Jared Meader. Caught at the center of some of the most pressing national issues of the day, the two-time Iraq war veteran has had to refinance his Vineyard Haven house to pay off medical bills from a brain tumor, and he now struggles to hold onto…
The Undefeated: Young Soccer Team Heads for Championship
According to his teammates, Matt Stone, goalie for the Vineyard Youth Soccer under-14 team, has an eye for finding four-leaf clovers.
Museum Set to Buy Marine Hospital
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum expects to sign within days a purchase and sales agreement to buy the former Marine Hospital in Vineyard Haven for an undisclosed price.
The purchase of the historic property, perched on a hill above the harbor, would mark a major step in the museum’s long quest to find a…
Embracing Life from Circuit Avenue
Remembering Cee Jay Jones, the unofficial summer ambassador in Oak Bluffs, who died Oct. 9 at the age of 100 in Winston Salem, N.C.
