JO-ANN TILGHMAN
508-627-7669
One of the things about August is that all of a sudden there seem to be far more meetings than occur over the rest of the summer. In addition to the regularly scheduled board and commission meetings, August is the time for annual meetings, especially if you are looking to get seasonal residents to attend.
RICK HERRICK
508-693-8065
Dr. Alex Walley is a faculty member at the Boston University School of Medicine where he trains residents and does research on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and substance abuse. He is also the medical director of a new pilot program with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for dealing with the problem of overdoses from the powerful pain relievers known as opioids.
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
This is the big weekend when the July people leave after their month or two-week visit and the August crowd arrives. Sometimes I think it is as busy as Memorial Day weekend. It is also the time we start thinking about the fair and waiting for the fireworks.
Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week.
BETTYE FOSTER BAKER
508-696-9983
I had been a summer resident of Oak Bluffs for only a short time when a friend brought someone to my home she wanted me to meet. This was a woman who perhaps loved Oak Bluffs and the Vineyard as much as life itself.
NANCY GARDELLA
508-693-3308
Congratulations to everyone’s friend, Neal Maciel, who has just been promoted to head our state troopers. Neal is hardworking, efficient, caring and a great person. He’s one of our Island’s own. We couldn’t be happier.
Welcome Maxwell
Randy and Julie Kann James of Maynard are the proud parents of Maxwell Christopher James, who was born May 15 at the Emerson Hospital in Concord. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 1/2 ounces. The maternal grandparents are David and Mary Kann of Vineyard Haven and David and Jean James of Lancaster. The maternal great-grandmother is Edith Kann of Peabody. Julie is a 1991 graduate of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Opening Reception
The Granary Gallery at the Red Barn invites all to an opening reception Sunday, August 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. at its Old County Road space in West Tisbury. The new exhibition features Steve Mills’s new photo-realist paintings of familiar objects and Vineyard scenes, Anda Styler’s impressionistic plein air-style acrylics depicting Island architecture and landscape, as well as new work from Diana van Nes and a trunk show for one day only of work by Cape Cod jeweler Ross Coppelman.
Dean’s List
Three Vineyard residents were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester at Northeastern University in Boston.
They are Linda Cheng of Vineyard Haven, who is majoring in economics; Jenna Corey of Edgartown, who is majoring in criminal justice; and Hannah Van Osten of Oak Bluffs, who is majoring in behavioral neuroscience.
Diving for Dollars
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August, 1983:
Every day during the summer a small band of young swimmers gathers at the beach near the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority wharf. Wearing underwater masks, and fins in some cases, they tread water and await the arriving boats from the mainland.
