Kimberly Penney and Michael Schneider were married last August at the Fort Mason Officers’ Club overlooking San Francisco Bay in California.

The bride is the daughter of Linda and the late Jonathan Penney of Novato, Calif. She received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, and is employed by Pax Engineering in San Rafael, Calif.

Bethany Alane Brown of Newport, R.I., married Richard James Villa 2nd of Chilmark on Sept. 22 at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Edgartown.

The Rev. Robert D. Edmunds, assisted by the Rev. David A. Pople of St. Thomas Church, Bethel, Conn., officiated.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alan G. Brown, Bethel, Conn.

At their annual town election Wednesday Chilmark voters easily approved three Proposition 2 1/2 overrides and reeelected selectman Warren Doty to a fourth term.

The overrides included $78,000 in education spending and two small funding requests that will allow the town to contribute its share to help pay for the county health care access and pest control programs.

A total of 211 voters, or 26 per cent of the 805 registered, turned out for the election.

A complete story about the Chilmark election will appear in the Friday Gazette.

Good Morning! The Gazette office will be closed on Monday in for the state holiday. And Susan Brown of Edgartown called yesterday to report Mayflowers blooming near the Edgartown Great Pond.

JUNE MANNING

508-645-2574

(lthslnks@gis.net)

The Aquinnah Public Library will be holding the final day of the spring book sale on Saturday, April 19 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in observance of National Library Week. All proceeds benefit the library, the programs at the library, and the activities there.

JANE N. SLATER

508-645-3378

(slaterjn@comcast.net)

Chilmark’s weather is getting more springlike every day with the roadsides bright with yellow flowers and green grass . . . and some new yellow and white lines newly painted on North Road. All are seen in a pleasant blur as we move faster and faster toward what we hope will be our busy season.

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

Last weekend my family went to Virginia where spring is some weeks ahead of here. It was a reminder of how wonderfully soft and warm the air will feel — at some point in the future.

The Virginia woods were highlighted by the amazing purple-pink flowers of the Eastern redbud trees and the blooming dogwoods. The redbuds lit up the woods the way that our shad bushes will in a few weeks.

KATHIE CASE

508-627-5349

(kathleencase@comcast.net)

How can we not like this weather? The only problem is Mother Nature loves to tease us and we know this is short-lived until June. So we have to enjoy it while we can. Donaroma’s is looking like Oz again following the arrival of the pansies, daffodils and hyacinths. Everyone who comes in says they were looking for something to brighten their day and give them hope for spring.

Joe the Clam Eater

From the Vineyard Gazette editions of January, 1948

Not conquering perhaps, but a hero just the same, Joseph H. Silva returned this week to his home in Edgartown. He went west as the Vineyard’s champion clam-eater, seeking a prize as the nation’s capacity consumer. Mr. Silva has won local fame for his capacity for steamed clams, boiled clams, fried clams and just clams.

In an extraordinary outcome, a Tisbury town referendum on whether town restaurants should be allowed to sell beer and wine with meals ended in a tie vote this week, 690 in favor and 690 against.

Following the annual town election Tuesday, which saw a record turnout, supporters of beer and wine sales have called for a recount of the votes, citing the possibility that improperly marked ballots wound up in the count.

The machine count recorded 21 blank ballots.