Stage and Che’s

Bill Croke Joins Firm

Bill Croke has joined Hughes & J.C. Murphy Real Estate in Edgartown as a sales associate.

A seasonal homeowner for more than 20 years, Mr. Croke recently relocated to the Island with his wife Joan, the owner and manager of a successful event management firm.

Car Donations

Boys’ and girls’ clubs throughout the country are accepting car donations. The car campaign is coordinated by the Arlington boys’ and girls’ club. Boys and girls throughout the country are pleased to call their clubs The Positive Place for Kids; income from donated cars helps to keep clubs as positive places.

To donate a car call 1-800-246-0493. No restrictions apply and the car will be picked up within a few days.

Members of the Martha’s Vineyard Figure Skating Club recently competed and received awards at the 42nd Annual Worcester Open Figure Skating Competition.

Alexandra Clark received a bronze in limited beginner freestyle, a silver in limited beginner compulsory moves, and a silver in pre-preliminary team compulsory moves.

Lindsy Dario received golds for limited beginner freestyle and

limited beginner compulsory moves, and silver in pre-preliminary team compulsory moves.

This has not been a good blue crab season on the Vineyard. The Edgartown Great Pond is doing poorly compared with last year and there are lackluster reports from the Island’s other coastal ponds.

But that is the story with blue crabs. Some years the fishing is great and some years it is bad. Feast or famine and nothing much between.

Blue crabs and the state of the fishery, which is largely unregulated, is the subject of a public hearing in Tisbury next month.

Friday, August 15: Hot and sunny beach day. Clouds increase in the afternoon. Thunderstorms pass to the north and south of the Island in the afternoon. Sun shines occasionally through high altitude clouds. Sunset is muted. A severe, noisy thunderstorm arrives before midnight. Rain is heavy.

Tomorrow night’s last quarter moon resides in the zodiacal constellation Taurus. It is hard to believe our summer has moved so quickly our attention now shifts to constellations we associate with autumn and winter.

By Lynne Irons>

I may have to change the name of this column to the raptor report. Great excitement on Chappaquiddick, first the Fowle family observed four merlins on August 14. Two were immature merlins. How did they know they were immature? One merlin was being fed by the adult female and the other was begging food and fluttering its wings. So the Chappaquiddick merlins fledged at least two birds!

My chickens wish that we had a garden. It is not that they are avid vegetable eaters, although they do enjoy the produce leftovers that they get from our kitchencompost. Nor is it that they are looking to get a greenthumb. It is the protein from the garden that they desire.