Katie Litwinowich Will

Marry Stephen Meinelt

Jim and Ann Litwinowich of Holden announce the engagement of their daughter, Katie Litwinowich, to Stephen Meinelt, son of Terry and Kathy Meinelt of Topsfield.

Ms. Litwinowich is a 1999 graduate of Wachusett Regional High School. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in English from the University of New Hampshire. She is attending Suffolk University Law School and is working as a summer associate at a law firm in Boston.

Emily MacRae to Marry

Michael Dwyer Next July

Last Call for Chowder

The last New England chowder supper of the season at the Federated Church in Edgartown will be held Thursday, August 14. Supper will be served from 6 to 7:15 p.m. The cost is $8 for adults and $5 for children. Proceeds benefit the Island Food Pantry. A Vineyard Sound concert will begin at 8 p.m. in the church meetinghouse. For information call 508-627-6040.

On Sunday, August 10, the preacher and celebrant at Trinity Episcopal Church, Oak Bluffs will be the Rev. Stephanie Spellers. Services begin at 9 a.m. The church is opposite the Steamship Authority wharf in Oak Bluffs.

Lama Yeshe Drolma has returned for her eighth year of teaching at The Bodhi Path Buddhist Center in West Tisbury to give a series of teachings in August and September.

Beginning Sunday, August 10 at 10 a.m. running through Sunday, Sept. 28, Lama Yeshe will teach on the topic Samsara and Nivana, explaining the significance of these Buddhist terms which describe the state of all sentient beings trapped in suffering and the path beyond it.

Falmouth Academy Honors

Seventy-nine students were named to the Falmouth Academy Headmaster’s List for the third trimester of the 2007-2008 academic year. To be named to the list, students must earn at least three As in their five core subjects and have no grade lower than a B minus.

Degrees

Two Oak Bluffs residents recently received degrees from Simmons College in Boston. They are Morning Star Tarter, who received a bachelor of science degree in nursing, and Whitney Burke, who received a master’s degree in library and information science.

Dean’s List

Emmeline C. Brown of Oak Bluffs has been named to second honors on the dean’s list at Clark University in Worcester.

Jupiter is the big man on campus in the August night sky. While not a star athlete, or even a star, it is certainly among the biggest and brightest.

By LYNNE IRONS

While sitting once again in traffic, I was developing a bad attitude. I began seeing weeds, dead flower heads, planters needing water, and general neglect all over town. I was thinking, in a darkly humored moment, of pointing out some of those places in next week’s column.