Habitat Needs Volunteers

Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard is looking for volunteers to help renovate a house donated by the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank. Build days are scheduled on Fridays and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The build site is located at the end of Bailey Park Road, off Great Plains Road off Old County Road in West Tisbury. Ask for Lee Taberner or Neal Sullivan on site, e-mail nsullivan@habitatmv.org or call the Habitat office at 508-696-4646 for more information.

Congratulations Emma

Emma S. Christensen of West Tisbury, graduated with high honors, summa cum laude, from Northeastern University with a degree in health science.

The man stabbed last Tuesday in Vineyard Haven died on Saturday at a Boston hospital, the Edgartown district court heard today at a pretrial hearing for Ovando Edghill, who was facing charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a knife.

Michael Trusty died Saturday afternoon, Cape and Islands assistant district attorney Laura Marshard said.

Mr. Eghill was represented in court by his attorney Robert Jubinville, who argued that his client had acted in self-defense.

Salamone — Tierney

Kathryn and John Salamone of Kinnelon, N.J., happily announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer, to Joseph K. Tierney 3rd, the son of Amy and Joseph K. Tierney Jr. of Vineyard Haven.

A 2007 graduate of Merrimack College in North Andover, Jennifer also holds a master’s degree in information and library sciences from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is currently assistant manager of the Andover Bookstore in Andover.

Master’s Degree

Emma Green-Beach, of Oak Bluffs, received a master of science degree in ecology and evolution from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in May. She is currently employed by the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.

Herring are back and the numbers are stronger compared with a year ago. Also known as alewives, herring are one of the true coastal signs of spring and considered essential bait fish in the food chain.

While the reports of numbers this spring are improved over last year, they are at best cautiously optimistic. A state moratorium prohibiting the catching of herring has been in place since 2005. The ban was a response to a dramatic drop in the numbers of fish returning in the spring of 2004 and before. Recovery has been slow, if at all, until this spring.

Full Steam

From Gazette editions of June, 1936:

Meet the beetles. The invasive exotic ones, that is. There is the goldenhaired bark beetle, the six-tooth bark beetle, the Mediterranean pine engraver beetle and the most dreaded of them all: the Asian long-horned beetle, which arrived on American shores a decade ago the way many foreign threats do, hiding in wood pallets.

At the Polly Hill Arboretum, collections and grounds manager Tom Clark and collections management intern Alyssa Janilla have been on guard for the unwelcome arrival of the voracious bugs by participating in a USDA monitoring program.

On Wednesday night, as the puck dropped for the third period of Game Seven in the Stanley Cup Finals, the streets of Oak Bluffs were, for the most part, quiet.

NURSING EXPERTISE

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

I am writing in response to your June 3 article about the hospital emergency room (ER) staffing, specifically concerning comments about nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians assistants (PAs).