HOLLY NADLER

508-693-3880

(sunporch@vineyard.net)

While the following is not a snippet from that cheesy book, Vineyard Confidential, Oak Bluffs native Kate McLean is living with 10 boys in San Francisco. Also three girls.

It started when she moved to the Bay Area last December (don’t you love the way today’s Vineyarders can just pick up and go thousands of miles from home; back in the day, their farthest destination used to be a weekend in New Bedford.)

NANCY GARDELLA

508-693-3308

(vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)

The tables have turned again. I took a head start on school vacation last Thursday and drove down to my Old Country with Iole’s three granddogs to help her out for a week. Let me tell you, toothaches don’t go away.

JOHN S. ALLEY

508-693-2950

(alleys@vineyard.net)

Announcing Sophia

Celi Ferreira Da Silva Alves and Jose Fabio Alves of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Sophia DeLazare Da Silva Alves, born on April 22 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of April, 1933:

A recount of ballots in two closely contested votes, the tied result on beer and wine sales in Tisbury and the narrow win by Jeff Kristal in the selectman’s race, will take place next Friday.

A $5.1 million plan to convert the old Bradley Memorial Church off Masonic avenue in Oak Bluffs into a mixed use building with affordable housing and artist work space has quickly become a heated neighborhood controversy.

On one side is a group of longtime residents of Dukes County avenue and the surrounding area who are proud of their largely blue-collar neighborhood. On the other is a group of town and Island officials touting a dense plan to redevelop property that is the site of the first African-American church on the Island.

Chilmark voters, known for their thrifty ways, will be put to the test at their annual town meeting next week when they are asked to spend extra money on a variety of projects from affordable housing to education.

The meeting begins on Monday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m., in the Chilmark Community Center. Moderator Everett H. Poole will preside.

The annual town election will be held on Wednesday; polls are open from noon to 8 p.m. at the community center.

In the unheated carriage shed of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on School street in Edgartown, where dozens of this Island’s outsized historical objects are stacked, there is a door from a Chappaquiddick fishing shack on which fishermen have scrawled — mostly in pencil — various items of local news. “Harbour frozen over to Cape Pogue — unable to get in or out. Man seen walking on ice,” reports a note from 1886. The bottom half is marked by an artful pencil sketch of a fish.

On an Island already known for its high cost of living, the Vineyard now claims the dubious distinction of having the highest gasoline prices in the state and among the highest in the nation. Prices for regular gas eclipsed the $4 a gallon mark at most Island service stations this week, while premium prices climbed as high as $4.39 a gallon.