Developing Issues

From Gazette editions of August, 1985:

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

August 13 79 64 .00

August 14 76 55 .00

August 15 79 55 .00

August 16 78 66 .00

August 17 79 70 .16

August 18 81 67 .00

August 19 78 64 .08

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 77º F.

NANCY GARDELLA

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Rick Herrick>

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In graduate school I read Plato and learned that old men can’t learn new things. It wasn’t scary then. It’s a little different now. Because conventional wisdom seems to agree with Plato that cognitive decline occurs as we age, I decided last winter to learn something about the brain. As more sophisticated imaging techniques have developed, neuroscientists have made great strides unlocking the secrets of brain functioning.

Welcome Elizabeth

Sara and Thomas Guice announce the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Diane Guice, born on August 10, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Elizabeth weighed 8 pounds at birth.

Announcing Charlotte

Michelle Veit and Keenan DeLaney of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Charlotte Rai DeLaney, born on August 13, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Charlotte weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces at birth.

Here’s Maybeline

Lisa Brown and Brent Brown of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Maybeline Anne Brown, born on August 4, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Maybeline weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces at birth.

Tonight’s gibbous moon appears low in the zodiac, in the constellation Sagittarius. The moon spends the night in the South. For those who visit South Beach at night, the moon marks a sparkling trail from the viewer to just under the moon. The size of the sparkles will be guided by how turbulent the sea is under the moon.

KATHIE CASE

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Warm days and cool nights — we seem to be having the best of both worlds. Now if this weather keeps up for the rest of the week, everyone will be happy and the fireworks will go off tonight as scheduled.

Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. Big balloons go out to Joseph Davies, who celebrated his day August 16; to Brandon Steigelman for August 18; and to Taylor Fauteux and Nicholas Vukota, who celebrate their day today, August 20.

BRAD WOODGER

508-627-4216

(ibwsgolf@aol.com)

Chappy doesn’t ask a lot from us. Just stay out of her poison ivy and ticks, and we’re good. But she gives a lot in return. More than one soul has been healed on a cool summer night, the stars, the owls, the salt breeze working in concert to soothe the senses.