I have been very blessed lately, and I bet that you have been too.
It is not an epidemic of good fortune, but rather an overabundance of pollen that has brought all of those “bless you’s” in response to the seemingly never-ending supply of sneezes.
Wash Day Art
As the green movement has grown, hanging out clothes has become de rigueur. Solar dryers, some call them, but around here they are still known as clotheslines, and on the Island they never really went out of style, except possibly with the emerging trophy house crowd who live in climate-controlled homes where the windows are never thrown open to the fresh, unpolluted sea air.
Temperature: Precip.
Day Max. Min. Inches.
Fº Fº
June 6 58 54 .04
June 7 62 53 Trace
June 8 80 61 .00
June 9 88 70 .00
June 10 91 63 .00
June 11 85 64 .00
June 12 87 64 .00
Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 70º F.
Early Service
From June through August, the Federated Church on South Summer street in Edgartown will hold an early, informal service at 8 a.m. each Sunday. The service generally will last about 30 to 40minutes. The regular worship service will be held at 10:30 a.m., with child care available at this ser vice. More information is available by calling 508-627-4421.
Democratic Council Will
Sponsor Candidates’ Event
Candidates for the Democratic nomination for state representative to replace the retiring Rep. Eric T. Turkington will introduce themselves on June 29 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs School.
The Democratic Council of Martha’s Vineyard, which is sponsoring the event, invites the public to meet the five candidates, learn their views and ask questions.
MARGARET KNIGHT
508-627-8894
Jenna Zadeh, back home after graduating from Westfield State with a degree in music education, found herself in charge of an unexpected group of young ones on Sunday. When she went out that evening, she saw four baby skunks roaming as a pack around her yard.
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
We’re having a heat wave — a tropical heat wave. I figure the only thing you can do when the weather is this hot is grin, bear it and sing. It is cooling down some now, but if this is the beginning of summer, then I think we need a bigger air conditioner.
Happy birthday to all who celebrated their day this past week. I have not made it over to the school for the birthday list, so again my apologies.
Jenney Way Receives
Environmental Honor
Four houses at Jenney Way in Edgartown recently received a top environmental designation from the U.S. Green Building Council.
The council certified the houses at the platinum level of its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, program. They became the first single-family affordable housing with permanent price protection in the United States to receive the designation.
In the face of mounting evidence that the conditions for approval for various development projects around the Island are routinely being ignored, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission has appointed a special committee to look into the issue and possibly draft new rules for enforcement.
The commission has no enforcement officer to ensure the conditions for all DRIs approved over the years — now totaling over 600 — are followed as intended.
Robert Thorson, professor of geology at the University of Connecticut, will speak on Saturday, June 14 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury on the cultural and environmental history of stone walls.
From rugged coastline, granite ledges, and lichen-covered glacial boulders to the signature stone walls that ribbon our forests and fields, the New England landscape is defined by stone. The Vineyard is no exception: the presence of stone walls in the landscape reflect the history of the Island and its people.
