A generation ago, Plum TV would have been impossible and the concept likely considered insane by conventional business thinking.

But in 2007 it’s working in eight markets, including on the Vineyard. Now five years old, Plum local stations on Nantucket and in Aspen are profitable “and the Vineyard is close,” founding partner Tom Scott said on Friday afternoon.

Carrie White Named Director of Support Services

In early September, Carrie White joined the staff of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services as director of the Women’s Support Services program.

Ms. White joins staff members Sally Callahan and Erika Dowling in providing domestic violence and rape crisis support services.

Habitat Seeks Volunteers

Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard has started another home in Vineyard Haven for a deserving family that already has been selected. The organization is seeking volunteers to help keep the building cost down to keep the price to the family as low as possible.

Construction days will be Fridays and Saturdays starting Sept. 28. Habitat is seeking experienced volunteers for the first weekend and maybe the second as the organization will be putting the cap on the foundation.

Watching the Fuel Gauge

At the Steamship Authority so much fuel is used to send ferries back and forth on their frequent schedule that even small changes in the price of oil can translate over time into significant savings, or expense.

To that end Falmouth governor Robert S. Marshall is right to sound a note of caution about where fuel prices may be heading in the coming year.

Boat line staff has forecast that oil will cost about seventy dollars per barrel in the current year, about ten dollars less than current prices.

Little Sundance in Vineyard Haven

For a few days this month, Islanders were encouraged to collectively dream in the dark. Many hundreds took up the invitation of the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival, which clearly has big dreams of its own.

SAVE THE FARM

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Coming back to the Vineyard after a few days on the Cape, I realized that one of the things to which I was most looking forward was picking up our Community Supported Agriculture farm share tomorrow.

By Art Railton, from his ‘Just a Thought’ columns, as published in the Vineyard Gazette editions of October, 1991:

I’m a television weather buff, a compulsive channel switcher, trying to find out for sure what tomorrow’s weather will be. I just can’t get enough of those satellite shots. And no wonder. After 20 minutes of fires in a Pawtucket three-decker, or a car wrapped around a tree in Kingston, or a half-dozen Boston detectives gloating over a $1 million drug haul, I relish something cheerful.

Good morning to all our readers near and far. Today marks the last Tuesday edition until June of next year. Thanks for being with us, and of course remember the Gazette on Fridays!

Maria Arrives

Ariana and Hugo Leoncio of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Maria Eduardo Ferreira Leoncio, born on Sept. 9 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Maria weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces at birth.

When anesthesiologist Stephen London first arrived at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital in the early 1990s as a summer fill-in, he was stunned by the technology. The machine, used by Dr. Malcolm Dunkley, the first anesthesiologist on the Vineyard, was all manual. There was nothing automatic on it. The outdated version would not be found in most hospitals nationwide, he said. But, Dr. London rolled up his sleeves and went to work. He is a man who makes the most of the materials in front of him.