JANE N. SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

What a week. Chilmark was excited by the primaries as indicated by the large number of voters who turned out. All the excitement and rhetoric seemed to bring on a thaw and the weather was decidedly not frosty! Then again, maybe the skies were weeping for our beloved Patriots who will be back next year.

We are happy to learn that Bill Gamson is out and about again. He broke his kneecap slipping on the ice in Boston in early December and has been immobilized since then. Best wishes from us all.

Information Meeting Is

Scheduled on Wind Farm

Cape Wind and the Martha’s Vineyard chapter of Clean Power Now will co-host a meeting on Monday, Feb. 11 about the proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. in the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven.

Speakers include Mark Rodgers of Cape Wind, which has proposed building the wind farm, and Sharon Strimling Florio of Clean Power Now.

From Chilmark to Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven to Edgartown, small family groups and boisterous bar parties celebrated Super Bowl Sunday as an annual break from quiet, brittle February.

Last Sunday, photographer Peter Simon, wheelman John Pinchon and this reporter crisscrossed the Island to note Super Bowl customs, traditions and reactions to the game.

HOLLY NADLER

508-693-3880

(sunporch@vineyard.net)

My grandfather’s fourth wife, Lena, who had the thickest Yiddish accent ever heard in the Farifax district of Los Angeles, would have characterized this week as “a time of sedness and gledness.”

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

NANCY GARDELLA

508-693-3308

(vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)

I was so disappointed when Amy Levine closed her fabulous store on Main street, It’s In the Bag. But how delighted I was to pass by today and see a young woman hard at work inside and a sign on the window: “Coming Soon! Island Music.” This will definitely be a welcome addition to our town.

Taxpayer Meeting

The Edgartown assessors will hold a meeting for taxpayers on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. in the second floor meeting room of the town hall. Steve Ferreira, district manager of Vision Appraisal Technology, which provides assessing services to the town, will talk about the mass appraisal process and market changes that have occurred in the last few years in the town of Edgartown. More information is available by calling the assessors office at 508-627-6140.

Charter School

Monday, Feb. 11: Macaroni and cheese, broccoli, peaches and milk.

Tuesday, Feb. 12: Carrot ginger soup, sunflower butter and jelly sandwich, fruit smoothie and milk.

Wednesday, Feb. 13: Calzones: sausage and pepper, ham and cheese or spinach and feta, bean salad, pineapple and milk.

Thursday, Feb. 14: Pizza: plain cheese, pepperoni or roasted vegetable, tossed salad, fresh fruit and milk.

Friday, Feb. 15: Beef or bean burrito, lettuce and tomato, salsa, apple sauce and milk.

Abigail Burnett Campbell and Brewer Bastien Rowe were married at Channing Memorial Church in Newport, R.I., on Jan. 5. Following the ceremony, a reception was held at Rosecliff, a historic home owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County.

The bride is the daughter of Michael E. Campbell and the late Barbara B. Campbell of Stamford, Conn., and Newport, R.I. She is the granddaughter of Richard Burnett of Oneonta, N.Y. Abby, as she is known, graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall and Colby College and is pursuing a degree in nursing.

Dr. Catherine Lenkoski of Hermosa Beach, Calif., and Martin Vojtus of Huntington Beach, Calif., were married Dec. 15 at Johnson Chapel, Amherst College, Amherst. The Rev. Richard Gross officiated.

The bride is the daughter of Peter and Maryann Lenkoski of Wethersfield, Conn., and West Tisbury. The bridegroom is the son of Ladislav Vojtus and Alzbeta Vojtusova of Harichovce, Slovakia.

Lori LaMay of Rocky Hill, Conn., was matron of honor. Brent Borovan of Bedford, Nova Scotia, was best man.