Time Machine Terms
June 9, 2011
MSPCA Donates Property, Money to Shelter
After 50 years of service and two years of negotiations, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is donating its Edgartown property and equipment, as well as a new $10,000 fund to help low-income pet owners with veterinary bills, to the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard.
MSPCA president and chief executive Carter Luke told the Dukes County commissioners Wednesday night that the new fund for pet owners in need would help keep together families who otherwise might have to give up their animal for adoption.
June 9, 2011
Airport Readies for Summer, Bigger Planes, More Visitors
From its beginnings as a Navy base during World War II to its present-day status as the Island’s only commercial airport, the Martha’s Vineyard Airport has seen a number of airlines come and go. For the past 20 years the main, year-round airline has been Cape Air, with a seasonal presence from U.S. Air bringing in flights from New York and Washington, D.C. This summer, two new airlines began service to the Island. JetBlue and Delta are flying from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and will continue service until Labor Day.
June 9, 2011
Letters to the Editor
SKATE CAMP CLARIFICATION
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
We were eager and honored to have our camp included in this year’s Vineyard summer camp round up (“Kids Are All Right With So Many Island Camps,” June 3.) And while it’s exciting to see such an artful lead photograph depicting a young and talented skateboarder, we were disappointed to find the content of the photograph and caption below to be irresponsibly misleading.
June 9, 2011
West Tisbury
JOHN S. ALLEY
508-693-2950
(alleys@vineyard.net)
The weather has been bright and sunny and temperatures are climbing. Lots of folks worked outdoors and held backyard barbecues last weekend. It is getting busier by the day; if you drove down to Vineyard Haven last weekend you probably experienced your first traffic snarl of the season. Tuesday is Flag Day. Linda Alley, also known as the jelly queen, reports that the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market will begin its 37th summer season tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. at the Grange Hall.
June 9, 2011
Aquinnah
JUNE D. MANNING
508-645-2574
(lthslnks@gis.net)
Congratulations and all the best to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School seniors upon their graduation on Sunday. Those graduating from Aquinnah include Elsie Fantasia, daughter of Edward and Fawn Vanderhoop Fantasia, who will be studying at Mount Ida College in September; Molly Fischer, daughter of Albert and Linda Fischer, who will be studying at Ithaca College in September; and Evan Hall, son of Saskia Vanderhoop and Norman Hall, who will be studying at Berklee College of Music.
June 9, 2011
Oak Bluffs
HOLLY NADLER
508-274-2329
(hollynadler@gmail.com)
Somewhere someone must be writing a canine horoscope chart and warning about a recent date: Here in town within a six-hour period on May 31, I personally was aware of at least three vicious dog encounters. Let us hope this isn’t a preview of things to come this summer. Normally we brace ourselves for a small minority (that translates to some 7,000 people of the extra 100,000 on Island per day in the season) of rude people. Now we may have to add to that demographic unmannerly dogs.
