JANE N. SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

Chilmark is all about town meeting this week. We convene at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 23 for our annual spring town meeting. Voting by ballot will take place on Wednesday at the Community Center with polls open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. It will provide us all with an opportunity to say thanks and farewell to our outgoing selectman, Frank Fenner Jr. who has served us for 10 and a half years. We will miss him around town hall and his contributions to town business.

JOHN S. ALLEY

508-693-2950

alleys@vineyard.net

HOLLY NADLER

508-274-2329

(hollynadler@gmail.com)

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

April 13 58 38 .00

April 14 61 44 .00

April 15 68 49 .06

April 16 66 52 .00

April 17 68 51 .00

April 18 81 52 .00

April 19 64 46 .00

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 56º F.

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

Announcing Suzanne

Isabella and Shawn Reed of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Suzanne Cabral Reed, born on April 12 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Suzanne weighed 6 pounds, 11.8 ounces at birth.

KATHIE CASE

508-627-5349

(kathleencase@comcast.net)

I woke up on Tuesday morning and thought I slept until July. We always say dress in layers so you can take clothes off or put them on as the case may be. But I was not prepared for 75 degree weather. As much as we love the sunshine, we do need some rain, as things are getting very dry and we are already watering everyday.

By IVY ASHE

Nearly all of the Vineyard teams compete at home this week; of particular note are the sailing team’s races against Harwich on Tuesday at 3 p.m. Competition takes place on Lagoon Pond and can be viewed from Sailing Camp Park.

Baseball

The Vineyarders rose to the challenge of playing three games in two days last week, taking home two wins on clutch performances.

“Two out of three was pretty awesome,” head coach Gary Simmons said. “Things are falling into place.”

Mother Earth needs you, all over the world, but here on the Vineyard, it’s her beachy bits that need the most care. That’s why on Earth Day, Saturday, April 21, the Vineyard Conservation Society is hosting its 20th annual beach cleanup day.

When we think of singing, we usually think of people or birds. In the spring we may think of pinkletinks, but we usually think of them as chorusing rather than singing. Very few people will think of grasshoppers, crickets and katydids as singers, but they are. And in this unusual spring, when oak trees are already beginning to leaf out, these insects may start their raspy singing soon.