Time Machine Terms
March 13, 2008
Chappy
MARGARET KNIGHT
508-627-8894
When I went across to town early on Sunday morning, there was barely enough water in the Chappaquiddick slip to float the ferry. Captain Bob attributed the low tide to a combination of the new moon and the high pressure of that bright sunny day. I didn’t know this, but high pressure tends to depress the water, while the low pressure, say, of a storm causes the tide to rise higher, in conjunction with the wind direction.
March 13, 2008
Edgartown
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
Our weather is so typical for this time of year. We get a warm day and think this is it, we might be over the worst. Then the next day it snows. However, if it wasn’t this way, what would we have to talk about?
Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Big balloons go out to Kya Maloney who celebrated on March 8, Phillip Jordan and Ava Thors who celebrated on March 11, Caroline Gazaille on March 13, and to Brenda DeOliveira who celebrates her day on March 15.
March 13, 2008
Vineyard Haven
NANCY GARDELLA
508-693-3308
My friend alerted me — that was the only reason I watched the worst television show I have ever had the misery to sit through in my life. She knows I don’t like reality shows. I think they’re bogus, vapid and narcissistic. I wasn’t wrong.
March 13, 2008
Oak Bluffs
HOLLY NADLER
508-693-3880
Back from California, babe. Lunch with Nicholson, cocktails with Spielberg. Oops, I just channeled someone else’s L.A. vacation.
One thing we Vineyarders can depend on when we plunge into the real world for a week or two or more: we run up against the latest technologies that leave us whistling, “Everything’s up to date in Kansas City.”
March 13, 2008
Martha Stewart Tunes in to Vineyard CSA
Martha Stewart Living radio will feature Elizabeth Germain today discussing Community Supported Agriculture. The broadcast is Friday, March 14, from 2:30 to 3 p.m. on Sirius Satellite radio, the Living Today Show. Tune in to learn about the history of CSA programs, the benefits of being a shareholder, and the similarities and differences between projects around our country.
Ms. Germain will discuss her experiences in founding the CSA at Stearns Farm in Framingham as well as her experiences as a shareholder of the Whippoorwill Farm CSA here on Martha’s Vineyard.
March 13, 2008
Firefighters Battle Three Blazes in Week
Island firefighters and emergency personnel this past week responded to no fewer than three fully involved house fires in three different towns.
Although fire officials say there are no signs of foul play in any of the fires, there was consensus that three major structure fires in one week is unusually high for the second week of March on the Vineyard, indeed for any week.
“I can say it is one big coincidence to have three fires in one week, but all indications are it’s just that, a coincidence,” Tisbury fire chief John Schilling said.
March 13, 2008
Islanders Work to Meet High Demand for Food Assistance
Two local organizations have worked hard this winter to make sure disadvantaged Islanders have access to free food.
This afternoon the Vineyard Committee on Hunger is hosting a giveaway at the First Baptist Church on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. They are distributing free food, some of it government surplus, to families that qualify. There are enough ingredients in a bag to give a family an Easter dinner with ham and more.
