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Fishermen’s Depot Provides Safe Harbor

Far from the Island's shoreline lies a harbor in the woods. Edgartown's innermost harbor has all the elements of a waterfront, minus the water, the swift-moving currents and high-priced real estate.

Letters to the Editor

LETTER FROM HAITI

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Leo

Martin Luther King Jr. Dinner Awards Islanders

Three well-known Vineyard residents will be recognized for outstanding community service and a noted author and history professor will deliver the keynote address at the 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. membership and awards dinner on Monday night, Jan. 17 at the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown.

The annual event is sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard branch of the NAACP.

Road to Wellness Still Possible in Slow Lane

I am not what is generally considered a Y person. However, my recent gluttony over the holidays, spurred by an errant early New Year’s resolution, necessitated some kind of serious intervention. The Y seemed a likely option.

Sharks Name Coach

Sharks Name Coach

Ted Currle has been named head coach of the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League for the 2011 season. Previously, Mr. Currle spent eight seasons as an assistant coach in circuits in Virginia and Maryland. He is currently the head baseball and football coach at Norton High School in Norton, Mass.

Civil Rights Service Honors Rabbi Heschel, Dr. King

Tonight at 5:30 p.m. the Shabbat Service at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center will pay homage to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his friend and colleague Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. This is the 13th year that the Martha’s Vineyard Chapter of the NAACP and the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center will cosponsor this tribute. Rabbi Caryn Broitman will lead the service.

Honoring a Man and His Dream

Honoring a Man and His Dream

As the nation grieves over those lives lost in an assassination attempt on Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, we will honor on Monday the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whose dreams were left unrealized when a gunman’s bullet felled him in the prime of his life.

He would have been eighty-two years old.

Jon

Beginner’s Luck Revisited in Tribute

It was in a motel room in Maine in the 70s that it all came together for the young Jon Lipsky.

Chappy

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

Oak Bluffs

HOLLY NADLER

508-274-2329

(hollynadler@gmail.com)

Many of us share a certain horror of travel off-Island. Obviously, the less you go, the greater the horror. Here are my recent misadventures: This past Monday, my stated mission was to travel from Oak Bluffs to Andover, north of Boston, to attend the funeral of my Uncle Fred.

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