Dean’s List
Caroline Davey of Oak Bluffs, MA, has been named to Fisher College’s dean’s list for the fall 2011 semester.
Announcing Isla
Eileen and Don Gregory of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Isla Felicita Gregory, born on March 9, 2012, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Isla weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces at birth and joins big brother Donnie.
HOLLY NADLER
508-274-2329
(hollynadler@gmail.com)
Writers have a tendency to over-dramatize, and I admit to being one of the worst offenders. So forgive me in advance for comparing my current ire to that of Émile Zola when, in January of 1898, he read about harm being done by the French judicial system to one Alfred Dreyfus. Holed up in a scruffy Paris garret where he scribbled, starved, fidgeted, and fed the rooftop pigeons,Émile wrote a scathing essay entitled “J’Accuse!”
NANCY GARDELLA
508-693-3308
(vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)
A great big Tisbury hello goes out to former resident Russell Snowden, who now resides in Northport, Fla. Russell called last week just to say how much he enjoys the Gazette and this column. We dished about mutual friends we had, apparently Buddy Healy was one of them. I forgot to ask Russell if he ever gets up this way. If you do, give me a call.
Edgartown Honor Roll
Edgartown School principal John Stevens has announced the honor roll for the second quarter of the 2011-2012 academic year.
Eighth grade high honors go to: Renato Gomes, Samantha Hargy, Jared Livingston, Sara Poggi and Katharine Wallace.
Eighth grade honors go to: Jimmy DiMattia, Katherine Dourian, Alexandra Ellis, Elliot Ferland, Olivia Green-Lingren, Elizabeth Hayman, Jacquelyn Hegarty, Marlla Lemos and Amadine Muniz.
MARGARET KNIGHT
508-627-8894
(margaret02539@yahoo.com)
Despite the fact that March is such an unlikeable month, it’s hard not to feel warmly toward one that has been as mild as this so far. As I drove up from the ferry early Tuesday evening, with the sun still up and an unseasonable fog settling in, I wondered why the roadsides looked oddly drab. Then I remembered that, despite the weather, it’s only mid-March, and that’s the way things are supposed to look in March.
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
(kathleencase@comcast.net)
Spring is here, I think. There were girls walking around town on Wednesday with tank tops, shorts and sandals. The water was beautiful to look at, and everyone was smiling. It was a good day and I hope we have many more. It also has been reported that the pinkletinks are out!
Daffodil Days
Thousands of daffodils are coming to the Vineyard on Tuesday, as part of an annual fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society.
Boxes containing 11,000 flowers will arrive Tuesday morning at 10:15 a.m. on the ferry. A team of core volunteers will meet at the Steamship Authority in Vineyard Haven to collect and then distribute the budding flowers.
JUNE D. MANNING
508-645-2574
(lthslnks2004@yahoo.com)
Chilmark Chocolates opened on Thursday and will be open for all of your Easter treats. Not only millions of jelly beans, but chocolate eggs and many other delicacies.
The Martha’s Vineyard Travel Mites capped an already exciting season—including an appearance at TD Garden and a four-game tourney sweep at the Frank Bell Memorial Tournament—by bringing home the Cape and Islands league trophy, defeating Nantucket 3-2 on Saturday and Hetland 5-1 on Sunday.
