BETTYE FOSTER BAKER
508-696-9983
(bdrbaker@comcast.net)
I had been a summer resident of Oak Bluffs for only a short time when a friend brought someone to my home she wanted me to meet. This was a woman who perhaps loved Oak Bluffs and the Vineyard as much as life itself.
NANCY GARDELLA
508-693-3308
(vhavenvgazette@yahoo.com)
Congratulations to everyone’s friend, Neal Maciel, who has just been promoted to head our state troopers. Neal is hardworking, efficient, caring and a great person. He’s one of our Island’s own. We couldn’t be happier.
Welcome Maxwell
Randy and Julie Kann James of Maynard are the proud parents of Maxwell Christopher James, who was born May 15 at the Emerson Hospital in Concord. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 1/2 ounces. The maternal grandparents are David and Mary Kann of Vineyard Haven and David and Jean James of Lancaster. The maternal great-grandmother is Edith Kann of Peabody. Julie is a 1991 graduate of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Opening Reception
The Granary Gallery at the Red Barn invites all to an opening reception Sunday, August 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. at its Old County Road space in West Tisbury. The new exhibition features Steve Mills’s new photo-realist paintings of familiar objects and Vineyard scenes, Anda Styler’s impressionistic plein air-style acrylics depicting Island architecture and landscape, as well as new work from Diana van Nes and a trunk show for one day only of work by Cape Cod jeweler Ross Coppelman.
Dean’s List
Three Vineyard residents were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester at Northeastern University in Boston.
They are Linda Cheng of Vineyard Haven, who is majoring in economics; Jenna Corey of Edgartown, who is majoring in criminal justice; and Hannah Van Osten of Oak Bluffs, who is majoring in behavioral neuroscience.
Diving for Dollars
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of August, 1983:
Every day during the summer a small band of young swimmers gathers at the beach near the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority wharf. Wearing underwater masks, and fins in some cases, they tread water and await the arriving boats from the mainland.
Dean’s List
Devin M. Colter, the son of Richard and Deborah Colter of Edgartown, was named to the Ithaca College Dean’s List for the spring semester 2008.
Mr. Colter plans to enter the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in the fall to major in filmmaking and photography. He is a 2007 graduate of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
While some business owners predicted a bleak summer season on the Vineyard due to record high gasoline prices and a sagging national economy — an outlook made worse by the devastating Fourth of July fire in Vineyard Haven — the mid-term economic report card for the season has so far been a mixed bag.
Chilmark selectmen signed an agreement Tuesday to purchase the Home Port restaurant, along with two neighboring waterfront lots, for a dramatically reduced price of $2 million.
The agreement, negotiated by selectman J.B. Riggs Parker on behalf of the board of selectmen with owners Will and Madeline Holtham, is almost half the price of a $3.9 million sale agreement rejected by Chilmark voters in 2005, though it does not include a lot with a dock currently used for restaurant parking.
