KATHIE CASE

508-627-5349

(kathleencase@comcast.net)

I hope everyone enjoyed themselves last weekend. I know a lot of gardening got done, and in my yard the mulch was put down. It was so beautiful and warm. Then on Wednesday we thought we would surely need a boat to get around. But as we all know, April showers bring May flowers. However, with the rain on Wednesday it may have washed all the seeds away.

JUNE D. MANNING

508-645-2574

(lthslnks@gis.net)

Community Baptist Church of Gay Head will have a business meeting following worship on Sunday, April 17; all members are encouraged to attend and to participate.

Eggsciting egg coloring will take place this Saturday and Sunday at the Duck Inn from 2 to 4 p.m. each day. Elise LeBovit will once again host her fantastic egg hunt on Easter Day.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

April 8 50 28 .00

April 9 50 28 .00

April 10 53 32 .00

April 11 58 39 .01

April 12 52 46 .01

April 13 62 44 1.45

April 14 56 43 1.40

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 50º F.

Two of the brightest nighttime celestial objects will rise together in the eastern sky tonight. Saturn and the moon are in the east and closest on Sunday night when it is full. On the Vineyard, we call that full moon the Daffodil Moon, to coincide with the seasonal arrival of the Vineyard’s favorite spring flower.

Oak Bluffs voters today elected two challengers, former businessmen Walter Vail and restaurateur Mike Santoro, to the board of selectmen, replacing a pair of two-term selectmen, Ron DiOrio and board chairman Duncan Ross.

In Edgartown, voters made a clean sweep of the library board of trustees, electing Julie Lively, Deanna Ahern-Laird and Bob Avakian.

Complete coverage will appear in Friday’s Gazette.

Leads Symposium

Dr. Bryan Graham, a certified chiropractic sports physician, cochaired this year’s American chiropractic board of sports physicians’ national symposium held from April 8 to 10 in Boston. The board promotes the highest standards of excellence and clinical competence for chiropractors specializing in sports medicine and physical fitness. Dr. Graham practices at Vineyard Complementary Medicine.

The title was potentially daunting: A Lecture on Relativity and Related Topics for a General Audience.

And while the topic was well outside my bailiwick, the phrase “for a general audience” assured me I was in good company.

The Polly Hill Arboretum has appointed Alyssa Janilla as their 2011 collections management intern. This nine-month internship is intended as an opportunity for interns to gain valuable hands-on experience as they embark on their horticultural careers.

L ast month during a discussion of an expansion of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) bottle bill that provides for redemption centers around the commonwealth, Oak Bluffs selectmen half-jokingly suggested lobbying the state to include in the bill what are known as nips, a particularly popular denomination of hard alcohol on the Island. Empty nip bottles increasingly line street curbs and thickets of Vineyard dune grass.

The Tisbury School announces the honor roll for the second quarter of the 2010-2011 academic year.

Grade five high honors: Margaret Burke, Casey McCarron, Elizabeth Williamson.

Grade five honors: Carolyn Duarte, Curtis Fisher, Emily Hewson, Cole Houston, Alexis Hughes, Sophia Kent, Coralee LaRue, Graham Lewis, Dillon McAndrews, Evelyn Medeiros, Michael Moore, Gabriel Nadelstein, Finn O’Callaghan, Larner Peak, Lily Pigott, Devon Teves, Benjamin Tillman.

Grade six high honors: Patrick Best, Ethan Mendez.