JANE N. SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

What a wonderful week it has been for a school vacation. Chilmark has been quiet as many families are off Island enjoying spring somewhere else. It has been grand here with quiet times and beautiful bloomings and wonderful sunshine. A surprise from April, which is usually cold and rainy.

Will Holtham is here preparing the Home Port Restaurant for the coming season. He tells us to look for his opening sometime mid-June this year.

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

Finally we’ve been getting the kind of warm, sunny days that make it clear that spring has arrived. Last weekend people were out working in their yards, strolling the streets of Edgartown, hiking and biking, and even playing on the beach. This time of year people working outside, at least this week, have it way better than the inside ones.

HOLLY NADLER

508-693-3880

(sunporch@vineyard.net)

While the following is not a snippet from that cheesy book, Vineyard Confidential, Oak Bluffs native Kate McLean is living with 10 boys in San Francisco. Also three girls.

It started when she moved to the Bay Area last December (don’t you love the way today’s Vineyarders can just pick up and go thousands of miles from home; back in the day, their farthest destination used to be a weekend in New Bedford.)

NANCY GARDELLA

508-693-3308

(vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)

The tables have turned again. I took a head start on school vacation last Thursday and drove down to my Old Country with Iole’s three granddogs to help her out for a week. Let me tell you, toothaches don’t go away.

JOHN S. ALLEY

508-693-2950

(alleys@vineyard.net)

Announcing Sophia

Celi Ferreira Da Silva Alves and Jose Fabio Alves of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Sophia DeLazare Da Silva Alves, born on April 22 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces.

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of April, 1933:

A recount of ballots in two closely contested votes, the tied result on beer and wine sales in Tisbury and the narrow win by Jeff Kristal in the selectman’s race, will take place next Friday.

A $5.1 million plan to convert the old Bradley Memorial Church off Masonic avenue in Oak Bluffs into a mixed use building with affordable housing and artist work space has quickly become a heated neighborhood controversy.

On one side is a group of longtime residents of Dukes County avenue and the surrounding area who are proud of their largely blue-collar neighborhood. On the other is a group of town and Island officials touting a dense plan to redevelop property that is the site of the first African-American church on the Island.

Chilmark voters, known for their thrifty ways, will be put to the test at their annual town meeting next week when they are asked to spend extra money on a variety of projects from affordable housing to education.

The meeting begins on Monday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m., in the Chilmark Community Center. Moderator Everett H. Poole will preside.

The annual town election will be held on Wednesday; polls are open from noon to 8 p.m. at the community center.