Graduates

Carlisle Alessandra Williams, daughter of Leslie O’Brien and Kenneth Williams of Edgartown and Santa Monica, Calif., graduated from Georgetown University on May 22, 2010. She received a bachelor of arts degree in English and Government. Carlisle was a three-year varsity member the Georgetown Sailing Team, and a sailing instructor at the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club in the summer of 2010.

Carlisle is the Content Coordinator of GoRadio, a subsidiary of Dial Global, New York, N.Y.

Sidra Dumont of West Tisbury, a 2011 graduate of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, is currently touring Europe with the Sound of America Honor Band and Chorus. The tour began July 1 and wraps tomorrow, July 23. It has included St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Luxembourg.

She was chosen to join other select student musicians from across the nation after auditioning and passing a rigid character and musical evaluation. Sidra has been selected to sing two solos during the performances.

Prize Pupils

Two Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School high school students, Allison McAndrews and Liam Wallace, both of Vineyard Haven, were given the 2011 Saint Michael’s College Book Award for Academic Achievement with a Social Conscience.

The award recognizes students who demonstrate a commitment to leadership in volunteer service and academic achievement.

Samantha Rabin

Samantha Rabin, daughter of Karen Bressler and Steven Rabin of Edgartown, was named the recipient of the David J. Gray Senior Prize in Sociology at Hamilton College on May 6.

Ms. Rabin, a senior majoring in sociology, is a graduate of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

A proposed new building at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport business park could become the home of a second Offshore Ale Company brewing outpost.

The building also might house the Steamship Authority reservations office, which will lose its lease at the airport park in 2012.

With a trying fiscal year 2011 behind it, the town of Oak Bluffs must now grapple with a fiscal year 2012 budget that looks increasingly unsound. Selectman and board chairman Kathy Burton said the town was looking to make up a shortfall of around $300,000 in its 2012 budget based on revenue projections, and everything was on the table at a Thursday morning brainstorming session with department heads and representatives from town committees.

JOHN S. ALLEY

508-693-2950

(alleys@vineyard.net)

MONUMENTAL MOVE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Our selectmen have voted to move the little-known war memorial from its somewhat obscure site at the triangle across from Whiting’s Pond to the town hall. I feel this is such a great idea I have volunteered my time and equipment to make the move.

Early tomorrow morning, the last quarter moon appears near the bright planet Jupiter. You’ll see them rising in the east after midnight tonight. The two are together in the zodiacal constellation Aries. We usually associate Aries with the constellations of autumn. Autumn stars all start showing up in our evening sky for those up after midnight. The moon moves through those stars next week.

Birds of a Feather

From Gazette editions of July, 1936:

We went to the Farmers’ Cooperative Market last Friday. It’s held in the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury every Tuesday and Friday of the summer. Most of the individual stalls were run by women who could get away from their household duties during the day to sell their own goods. They had on sale substantial, home-made products, just the kind of thing you would expect a New England good wife to produce.