College Names Vineyard
Teacher an Unsung Hero
Dr. Elaine Weintraub, a teacher at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, has been named an Unsung Hero by St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt.
Matthew Seklecki, a graduate of the high school and now a student at St. Michael’s, nominated Ms. Weintraub for the award.
Club Slates Black Powder
Shoot for This Sunday
The Martha’s Vineyard Rod & Gun Club’s annual Black Powder Shoot will be held Sunday, Dec. 9 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is the day before the primitive firearm deer season opens on the Island.
The club invites the public to participate. The club is off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road at 3rd street in Edgartown.
The Edgartown library is suffering from furnace puffback and will be open only during emergency hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday next week. Staff have set up temporary quarters in the selectmen’s meeting room at the town hall, with a limited stock of borrowing material.
The library closed its doors Monday.
In a win for the democratic process, a proposed bylaw to lower the quorum requirement was unanimously rejected by Edgartown voters at a special town meeting at the Old Whaling Church Tuesday.
A healthy quorum of 185 registered voters (37 more than the required number) attended the meeting to vote down the proposal which would require fewer of them to vote at any town meetings in the future.
Jack Arrives
Tracy Ann and William Oteri and big sister Danielle announce the birth of Jack Anthony Oteri, born on Nov. 26 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Jack weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at birth.
Jewelry Jingle
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum will celebrate Christmas In Edgartown on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 2 to 4 p.m. with its first Jewelry Jingle. Stop by the museum at 59 School street for wine, hot cider, chocolate treats and shopping.
This sale of used jewelry, gleaned from attics, jewelry boxes and dresser drawers from all over the Island, will benefit the museum’s on-going operations.
To donate used jewelry, please call 508-627-4441 extension 123.
Screenplay Contest
Dick Upson, a longtime Chilmark summer resident as well as a former Vineyard radio personality on WVOI-FM, just won the 2007 Horror Screenplay Competition’s Grand Prize from the Rhode Island International Film Festival for a horror film that is set on the Vineyard.
Mr. Upson is a professor of communications at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I.
HOLLY NADLER
508-693-3880
A couple of suggestions, the first for giving a boost to the Oak Bluffs economy, the second for doing the same for our general well-being:
One: We should go on the euro. This is the form of currency in the western world that’s got some snap to it. The dollar’s a loser. Let’s dump it.
Margaret Knight>
508 627-8894
Chappaquiddick had its first snow last Sunday evening. The tentative white covering was gone when I got up early the next morning. Still, it proves that winter has begun, unofficially anyway. There was ice on Brine’s Pond on Wednesday morning. Christmas in Edgartown always comes a bit before the official day as well, and all kinds of events are scheduled for this weekend.
KATHIE CASE
508-627-5349
I think the little bit of snow that fell on Wednesday may have been enough to put people in the mood for Christmas. The trees are up in some houses and the Island is starting to glow with outside lights.
