Sense of Wonder Crafts

Sense of Wonder Creations is holding a special holiday crafts event for children ages five and older on the next two Monday, Dec. 5 and 12, to benefit Heifer International.

Vineyard All-Stars

Vineyard fall athletes made an impressive showing in the Eastern Athletic Conference All-Star selections, announced earlier this week.

Cross country: Jeremy Alley-Tarter, Cooper Chapman, Kyle Joba-Woodruff, Hannah Moore, Michael Schroeder.

Field hockey: Maggie Johnson, Meghan McHugh.

Golf: Mike deBettencourt, Chris Morris.

Football: Delmont Araujo, Tyler Araujo, Michael Montanile, Conor Smith.

Boys’ soccer: Rodrigo Honorato, John Marcal, John Oliveira, Jack Roberts.

With the team competing in just three home meets and eleven regular-season meets overall, the accomplishments of the Vineyard cross-country squads can get a bit, well, lost in the woods.

A 20-foot abandoned recreational powerboat washed up on East Beach on Chappaquiddick on Wednesday morning. Paul Schultz, assistant superintendent for The Trustees of Reservations, discovered the boat, which had a big crack in it, in the surf at 8:45 a.m. during his daily rounds.

Mr. Schultz called the Edgartown harbor master and the U.S. Coast Guard.

From the registration numbers on the boat, the Coast Guard was able to find the owner and contact him to learn the nonemergency circumstances that brought about the boat’s discovery.

Please Adopt Us

Sadly, the holidays are not the happiest time for all the beautiful cats at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard who need new homes. This is especially true for our featured cat his week. Nomar was surrendered to the shelter by a wonderful, caring owner who had to give him up because she must to return to Chile and can’t take him with her. He is beautiful, a Himalayan with lovely blue eyes and a soft coat who has won over the hearts of all at the shelter. Won’t you please come see him?

Paul Sullivan’s last day in the Coast Guard and last day at Menemsha Coast Guard Station coincided on Wednesday. Mr. Sullivan, who had spent 22 years in the Coast Guard, and two years in Menemsha, departed with subdued fanfare at about 9 a.m. He took his car and headed home to his family, south of Boston.

After years of what seemed an encouraging recovery for the once-storied New England cod fishery, federal regulators recently announced that an important stock is failing.

A 2008 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study of the Gulf of Maine cod stock revealed a fishery rebounding after decades of overfishing, and on pace to be rebuilt by a 2014 deadline set by federal regulators. But just three years later NOAA now says that the fishery is near collapse and may require a fishery-wide shutdown to recover.

Matt Cancellare stands in front of you holding up a pair of padded boxing mitts. “Come on, give me more. I know you got it,” he says.

You throw combinations of punches until your shoulders ache and you can barely raise your gloves. You feel like giving up, yet something in his voice compels you to dig a little deeper and keep punching until the round is over. An alarm chimes.

“Time,” he calls. “Relax.”

Alarming Contradictions

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Late Summer Luncheon

Editor’s Note: Last fall Marlee Fox, a senior in high school, was mulling over her creative writing assignment. It was a cold, blustery day in Annapolis, Md. where she lives and her thoughts turned to Martha’s Vineyard. For several years now her family has been visiting the Island for two weeks each summer.

She wanted to capture, “that feeling you get in your stomach when it’s summer for the first time,” she said.