Receives Degree

Zachary Townes of Edgartown graduated from Castleton State College in Castleton, Vt., in May with a bachelor of arts degree.

Dean’s List

Duncan Pickard of Edgartown recently was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester at Tufts University.

Dean’s List

Morning Star Tarter of Oak Bluffs, a nursing major at Simmons College in Boston, recently was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester.

Dean’s List

Three Vineyard students were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester at Bridgewater State College. They are Jai L. Berger and Dawne M. Charters-Nelson of Vineyard Haven and Michael C. Pachico of Chilmark.

Dean’s List

Two Vineyard students have been named to the dean’s list at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., for spring quarter 2008. They are Tara Reynolds of Edgartown, who is an illustration major, and Alice Hopkins of Vineyard Haven, who is an architecture major.

Domestic Secrets, an exhibition of photographs by Julie Jaffe, opens with a reception this evening, Friday, August 1, from 5 to 6:45 p.m. at the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard in Chilmark, across from the Community Center on State Road.

Skip Petersen sat on the porch of the Midnight Mermaid Tuesday evening with a journal open in her lap. Apparently oblivious to the throng of people in thrift shop attire that surrounded her, she scrawled in the journal her thoughts and blessings to Darlene Kelly and Penny Townes, who were fired from their posts at the Edgartown Second Hand Store in mid July.

“It wasn’t just a store, it was a great pow-pow place,” Ms. Petersen wrote and later showed the reporter. “It will never be the same.”

JUNE MANNING

508-645-2574

(lthslnks@gis.net)

By LYNNE IRONS

According to the Rodale Institute, switching conventional farmland to organic would cut greenhouse emissions by 10 per cent in the U.S. as sustainably farmed soil can absorb 30 percent more carbon.

There are three people that I consider osprey men: Rob Bierregaard, Gus Ben David and Tim Baird. On Tuesday night, Rob gave a talk about ospreys. For those of you that were unable to attend, you missed a good one. For those of you that did attend, bear with me as I review some of the new facts I learned and some old ones that were dredged up from my memory by Rob’s marvelous talk.