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
June 21, 2011
News Update: Wednesday, June 22 – Oak Bluffs Voters Approve Money Moves But Balk at Denniston House Map
Oak Bluffs will cover shortfalls in the current town budget with money from the town’s rainy day fund, after 100 people met Tuesday night for a special town meeting at the Oak Bluffs School.
Voters agreed to transfer $106,000 from the town’s stabilization fund to cover higher-than-budgeted health insurance costs for town employees.
Lauren Franklin
Lauren Franklin
Lauren Kate Franklin, of Vineyard Haven, graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in communication studies.
Playhouse Begins Capital Campaign To Continue Restoration of Theatre
The Vineyard Playhouse hopes to raise $1 million this summer in the first phase of a $5 million capital campaign that encompasses the renovation, restoration and expansion of the historic theatre on Church street in Vineyard Haven.
The restoration already has begun. With Community Preservation Act funds and private donations, the playhouse has…
VINEYARD BOOKSHELF
The Road to Sagarmatha, by Adam Wilson, Xlibris Corporation, Indianapolis, IN 2011, 284 pages, hardcover, $29.99.
Foreclosure Begins on Bradley Square, Housing Fund Scrambles
Foreclosure proceedings have begun on the Bradley Square property in Oak Bluffs, four years after the Island Affordable Housing Fund began an ambitious redevelopment scheme that never got off the ground.
The nonprofit housing fund — recently renamed the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Fund — owes the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank almost $750,000 in…
Peas Please
Snap, shell, snow: June means pea season on the Vineyard.
It’s a rite of summer, seeing the “We Have Our Peas” sign placed for the first time in front of the Bayes Norton Farm stand on Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road. (The Vineyarder who originally painted the sign wrote “Pease,” thinking it was spelled the…
With Baitfish Scarce, Otters Move Inland Snacking on Goldfish, This Time at Peril
A valiant effort to save the life of two malnourished baby otters came to an end over the weekend.
One otter, found in a yard in Oak Bluffs on Thursday afternoon and sent Friday morning to the Trailside Museum in Milton, died over the weekend. A second baby otter, recovered on Friday not…
Tackling Taste of the Vineyard: Back-to-Front and Other Strategies
Navigating the Taste of the Vineyard Stroll is an intricate dance, one that requires patience, drive and room for more. It’s not for the faint of heart: one has to be able to sneak through walls of people while balancing a plateful of food and not spill a drink.
Language of the Love of Teaching
Barbara Reynolds took out an old photo album in a resource room at the Edgartown School last week, the pages tinted with age but the memories still fresh as though her students were sitting next to her at the table.
MVC Votes Not to Review Goodale’s
Is Goodale’s sand and gravel pit expanding? On Thursday the Martha’s Vineyard commission said no and sent the matter back to the town of Oak Bluffs.
An Oak Bluffs Love Letter Long Forgotten, Still Pulses
By ARLEN WESTBROOK
Flock of A’s for New Take-Out Eatery
SueEllen Rothery already had bought a sandwich at 7a Foods, but for the second time on the day of its grand opening she was back at the new take-out eatery behind Alley’s General Store, waiting patiently. “I bought a sandwich just now to share with my sister, and I brought it home and she had…
Letters to the Editor
WAKE UP TIME
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
Liz Durkee has done our Island community a huge service with her informative and well-researched articles in the Gazette on global warming and climate change. Her passion is to get us thinking on how to prepare for this inevitable future. If you have missed them,…
Tuesday Chronicle: In the Mail
From Gazette post office files:
What splashes of color RFD mailboxes add to the landscape today. There are red mailboxes, blue, lion-yellow. There are mailboxes with whale’s tails painted whimsically on them, with lobster decorations, adorned with a smiling sun. There are mailboxes painted to resemble houses, striped mailboxes and mailboxes that look…
Court Told Fatal Stab Was Self-Defense
An Edgartown man who was stabbed last Tuesday in Vineyard Haven died on Saturday at a Boston hospital. Michael Trusty, 45, died Saturday afternoon, Cape and Islands assistant district attorney Laura Marshard told the Edgartown district court yesterday at a pretrial hearing for Ovando Eghill, the defendant in the case.
Mr. Eghill, whose…
Cafe Moxie to Reopen, Honest
There has been much speculation about 48 Main street in Vineyard Haven ever since July 4, 2008, when fire destroyed Café Moxie and badly damaged the Bunch of Grapes bookstore. With the rubble atCafé Moxie knocked down shortly after the fire, an empty lot sat in the heart of downtown Vineyard Haven.
Students Shine at Old Sculpin Reception
The Old Sculpin Gallery was full of lively energy and a crowd of people on Sunday. It was the show for the scholarship winners of the Martha’s Vineyard Arts Association.
This year’s winners are Isaac Hurwitz and Kira Shipway; the alternate is Tova Katzman.
Each of the three recent high school…
Trust Collars Big Boost With Artist Tie
Ray Ellis, the haberdasher, out-earned Ray Ellis, the artist, when his necktie fetched $150,000 for the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust at the annual Taste of the Vineyard auction on Saturday night.
Longtime summer visitor Scott Earl, who last year bid $225,000 to take home a Ray Ellis oil painting, bought the artist’s tie…
Girl Scouts Go Beyond Marshmallows To Make Garden Welcoming Island Flyers
Freshly potted plants, new shrubs and flowers adorn the Martha’s Vineyard Airport, thanks to Girl Scout troop 80802, whose community project came to an end this weekend. The girls have been out there at least once a week since mid-April, assisting in weeding, gardening and planting new flowers in front of the terminal, the playground…
Art by Kids Speaks to Kids and More
Art by Kids Speaks to Kids and More
This Thursday, June 23 at 7 p.m. IMP for Kids, the YMCA dance program and Joanne Cassidy’s vocal students are coming together to present an evening of entertainment and importance entitled Assertions: Kids Speak Out Through the Arts.
One could argue that all…
Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night
The Ritz in Oak Bluffs is a dimly lit joint, hot and smelling of beer and smoke, even though people have to go outside to inhale. There’s live music tonight and the bar is packed. On the floor, a DJ gets people dancing before the headlining band, Dukes County Love Affair, goes on.
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Escape Via Serbia
Escape Via Siberia
At the beginning of WWII, as Germany invaded western Poland, many Poles fled east to escape the Nazi occupation. Before long they became victims of a secret treaty to divide Poland and found themselves under Soviet occupation. In 1940 many of them, including 200,000 Jews, were deported to labor camps…
Summer Solstice Party
Summer Solstice Party
Can it be the longest day of the year is already upon is? Well, to take the sting out of the idea that the days will now be getting shorter, Featherstone Center for the Arts is throwing a summer solstice celebration from 5 to 9 p.m. tonight, June 21.
…
Models Wanted
Models Wanted
You are too sexy for your skin, you know it, and now it’s time to let everyone else know it too.
Fashion Week is headed our way later this summer but the fancy finery doesn’t walk down the catwalk by itself. It takes a body, man or woman five…
Oak Bluffs Library Open
Oak Bluffs Library Open
The Oak Bluffs Library is open again after an unpleasant sewage backup forced it to close last week.
Library director Danguole Budris notified the board of health and the highway department last Tuesday when sewage began spilling into the library staff room.
The problem was…
Far Barn Looking Good
The Polly Hill Arboretum is kicking off their summer lecture season with a celebration of the newly renovated Far Barn. Over the winter the barn underwent a structural transformation, upgrading the lighting and implementing a new sound system.
Meeting Continued
Meeting Continued
Habitat Needs Volunteers
Habitat Needs Volunteers
Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard is looking for volunteers to help renovate a house donated by the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank. Build days are scheduled on Fridays and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The build site is located at the end of Bailey Park Road,…
Congratulations Emma
Congratulations Emma
Emma S. Christensen of West Tisbury, graduated with high honors, summa cum laude, from Northeastern University with a degree in health science.
