HOLLY NADLER
508-693-3880
The moon has been so dramatically full this week — so fat and blazing and low on the horizon — that some people have had to break out sunglasses for their evening stroll with the dog.
The moon’s glow was particularly taunting on those extremely freezing nights earlier in the week when you had to wonder how a heavenly body could shed major light and zip heat.
Welcome Annie Grace
Annie Grace Combra was born at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston on Jan. 10. She weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces. Annie Grace is the third child of Richard and Jennifer Combra and the baby sister of Sophie and Richard 3rd. The grandparents are Brenda and Robert Lynch of Rochester, Sue Curely of Oak Bluffs, Richard and Dawn Combra of Oak Bluffs and Jack and Roxie Curley of Marion.
English Conversation
The Edgartown library has begun a winter semester of free English conversation classes, led by Nancy Gardella. The class meets on Tuesdays from 5 to 7 p.m. at Edgartown town hall. Class dates are Jan. 29; Feb. 5, 12 and 19; and March 4, 11 and 18.
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
The days are getting longer and the sun has been shining. We are not shivering as the temperature has been bearable. The Patriots are in the Super Bowl. What more could we ask for?
Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Big balloons go out to Ryan Gosson who celebrated Jan. 19, Kylie Fauteux and Jared Rivard who celebrated Jan. 24, and Alec Cobban and Quinn Cobban who celebrated their day Jan. 25.
Hope Arrives
Vanessa Grant of Vineyard Haven announces the birth of a daughter, Hope Ute Grant, born on Jan. 17 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Hope weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces at birth.
Lap Puppets
April Thanhauser of Spindrift Marionettes will join the staff of Plum Hill School to offer a free morning of puppets and crafts tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 26, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Family Center at the high school.
April’s puppet show will feature colorful “lap puppets” enacting a medley of nursery rhymes — just right for toddlers and preschoolers.
Stephanie DaRosa and Josie Black of Plum Hill will follow with a natural craft activity for parents and children to do together.
Temperature: Precip.
Day Max. Min. Inches.
Fº Fº
Jan. 18 45 23 .17
Jan. 19 50 26 .00
Jan. 20 38 24 .02*
Jan. 21 31 15 .00
Jan. 22 30 14 .00
Jan. 23 43 28 .54
Jan. 24 39 23 .00
*Melted Precipitation
Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 39º F.
JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
Just when is the dead of winter? Is this it? Anyway, Chilmark is definitely in winter mode . . . enjoying the sunny days when we get them, enduring the gray days and, so far, not having much snow to move.
Karen Flynn tells us that her mother, Barbara, came home from the hospital on Christmas Day and enjoyed a 75th birthday celebration with her family on New Year’s Day. Karen and her family are well known to many as the tireless cooks at the Bite on Basin Road.
Hello, Fiona
Aubrey Shipway and Dave Miller announce the birth of a daughter, Fiona Violet Miller, born Jan. 10 at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Proud grandparents are Morgan and Louise Shipway of Chilmark and Avon, Conn., Lucinda Sheldon of Oak Bluffs, Joan and Tom Browne of Kennington, Md., and David and Grace Miller of Gerrardstown, W.Va.
