A story in last Friday’s Gazette about rot in the West Tisbury school misidentified the professional status of Jeffrey Koper. He is a licensed architect, not an engineer. The Gazette regrets the error.
In a story in last week’s Gazette about the NAACP Martin Luther King Day brunch, Laurie Perry-Henry was identified incorrectly. She is president of the Martha’s Vineyard Chapter of the NAACP. Also the story carried an incorrect date for Lincoln’s birthday; the correct day is Feb. 12. The Gazette regrets the errors.
A story in the Tuesday Gazette about an event with the two Island bookstores incorrectly named the owner of Edgartown Books. The owners are David and Ann LeBreton; the manager is Susan Mercier. The Gazette regrets the error.
A story in Friday’s Gazette reported incorrectly on the reopening date of Alchemy restaurant in Edgartown. Alchemy reopened three weeks ago and is very much open for business.
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The Chappaquiddick column in Friday’s Gazette carried the wrong byline. The guest author of the column was Brad Woodger. Also in the column the e-mail address for Ron Whitney was missing a character. The correct e-mail address is rwhitney@mspca.org.
A town column in Friday’s Gazette characterized Peter and Cora Weiss as friends of the father of President Obama in the early 1960s. Mrs. Weiss was the executive director of the African American Students Foundation from 1959-63 which brought students from East Africa to the U.S. The President’s father, Barack Obama, came to the University of Hawaii independently, though the foundation awarded him three modest grants to help him buy books, pay for his tuition and personal needs.
Three photographs that appeared in the Friday, August 6, Gazette with a story about the Witnesses to Hunger project failed to include credits. The first two photographs were taken by Erica Smalley, and the third was taken by Barbara Izquierdo.
A photograph published in the August 13 Gazette of Vernon Jordan at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs incorrectly identified the person Mr. Jordan was standing with. It is Union Chapel president Alphonse Carter. The Gazette regrets the error.
A story in Tuesday’s Gazette about changes on the board of directors for the Quansoo Beach Association did not make clear that longtime association treasurer Bonnie George’s decision to step down was unrelated to pressure over the legal dispute with the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation. Mrs. George was asked to stay on the board.
A photograph in Friday’s Gazette that accompanied a story about the forum organized by Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. incorrectly identified the person in the picture as R. Dwayne Betts; the picture was of Bob Herbert.
The name listed under a picture of a regional high school cross-country runner in last Friday’s Gazette was incorrect. The picture was of Chris Serpa, not Sam Cerna. The Gazette regrets the error.
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A story in last Friday’s Gazette about the West Tisbury firemen’s pig roast incorrectly named a partner in the enterprise Local Smoke; it is Everett Whiting.
