Housing Rehab Funds

Housing Rehab Funds for critical home repairs and energy saving updates are available to Oak Bluffs and Tisbury property owners. Learn more at an information session Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 6:30 pm in the Oak Bluffs Library. Sponsored by the Oak Bluffs Energy Committee, you will learn about deferred forgivable loans for projects such as roof replacements, new siding, and code violation corrections. For information call 693-3554, extension 118.

Arboretum Soup ’n’ Stroll

All are invited to celebrate the opening of the new Family Planning of Martha’s Vineyard Clinic, on Sunday, Nov. 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. Friends of Family Planning is hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony and invites everyone to visit and tour the new facility, a condo at 517 State Road Condominiums (5 Village Court Unit 1A) in Vineyard Haven.

This new building provides both clinic and office space and is handicapped accessible.

In this serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (“Call me Becca”) returns home after years in Manhattan to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe loathes Richard Moby, chief of the off-Island landscaping business Broadway. He is irrationally convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and Island-based nursery businesses in general.

Dear P:

By ALLEN GREEN

It was a sunny Sunday afternoon in early November, but there, already, was Santa — and riding a motorcycle, too. What’s more, behind him was a line of about 60 more riders, all ready to criss-cross the Island and pick up toys and donations for the neediest kids here. The group was the Martha’s Vineyard Harley Riders, and last Sunday marked their annual Red Stocking tour around the Island.

Housing Manager

Sandra Barberio Webster has been appointed site manager at Hillside Village, a unit of Island Elderly Housing, executive director Ann Wallace announced.

Sandra, a longtime visitor to the Island, moved here permanently a few years ago to join her mother and son. Much of her career was spent in the food industry in a variety of managerial positions.

Our group is a brain trust of women with different points of view. I spent my time on the ferry to Woods Hole writing hypothetical questions.

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Vineyard residents currently on active duty In the armed services:

Jordan Baptiste

Mason Berry

James Hagerty

Craig Sylvia

Ryan Rossi

Michael Blake

Jared Meader

Travis Bissey

Jack Van Bourgondien

Anthony Sullo

Jeremy Evans

Vineyard residents who are Iraq and Afghanistan veterans:

Jared Meader

Travis Bissey

Michael Blake

Daniel Dunlop

Richard Monaco

Ron MacLaren

November 5, 2008

The horse is Obama

The geese are Obama

The green field is Obama

The trees on the ridge are Obama

The clouds are Obama

The blue sky is Obama

The woman who cries is Obama

The boy who became a man is Obama

The husband who is away is Obama

The friend who says wow is Obama

The black woman who voted for McCain is Obama

A CANDIDATE’S THANKS

Editors, Vineyard Gazette: