Time Machine Terms
January 15, 2009
Island Grown Initiative Connects Farms to Schools
Island Grown Schools, the Island Grown Initiative’s farm-to-school program, is set to bring more local produce into school meals and snacks in 2009, developing a connection between cafeterias and farms that helps create a year-round market for locally-grown foods and a source of off-season income for Island farmers.
January 15, 2009
New Arboretum Assessment Made Possible With Grant
The Polly Hill Arboretum recently completed its second conservation assessment through a grant administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Service’s Heritage Preservation Program. The assessment was an opportunity to update an original assessment which was completed in 2001.
January 15, 2009
Oak Bluffs
HOLLY NADLER
508-687-9239
(hollynadler@gmail.com)
By this time in January we’ve forsaken our personal New Year’s resolutions, am I right? But I’m hoping it’s not too late to propose a few for our town:
January 15, 2009
Edgartown
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
(kathleencase@comcast.net)
Mother Nature is really showing her true colors this year. As I am writing this, it is 15 degrees outside, and tomorrow more snow, then Friday below zero. At least the days are getting longer.
Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Big balloons go out to Kyle Rollins who celebrated on Jan. 15; Andrew Fournier and Austin Fournier for Jan. 16; Elias Gundersen and James Murray on Jan. 16; and to Ryan Gosson who celebrates Jan. 19.
January 15, 2009
Vineyard Graduate Wins Ambassadorial Scholarship
Adam Wilson, president of the Rotary Club of Martha’s Vineyard, announced that Nina E. Ferry, daughter of Michael and Beth Ferry of West Tisbury, has been awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship for the years 2008-2009. Ms. Ferry graduated summa cum laude from Assumption College in 2007 majoring in English literature. During her undergraduate years, she spent a semester abroad studying at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
January 15, 2009
Gazette Chronicle: January Journal
January Journal
From Gazette editions of January, 1934:
The reeking of the sea all about the Island is something new in the way of natural phenomena to many of the younger Vineyarders. The word comes to us from the Scotch and the Icelanders, and it seems to describe as no other word the exhalation of vapor which takes place when the salt water is still relatively warm, and the temperature of the air drops far below zero.
