JUNE MANNING
508-645-2574
(lthslnks@gis.net)
One week of a reprieve before my family home is torn down. Thanks for the additional time. It is terribly difficult to part with some of the treasures of several generations. But, everyone keeps saying “think positive” and look forward to the new beginnings for one and all. In the meantime, it is a rather bittersweet experience clearing out the only home I have really ever known for the past six decades, after probably living in nearly a hundred different houses. Oh, the memories ...
JOHN S. ALLEY
508-693-2950
(alleys@vineyard.net)
The weekend started out gray with a threat of rain, but lawn mowers could be heard buzzing most everywhere in town. There was a shower or two but it didn’t amount to very much after all and many outside chores were completed. The rhododendron bushes at the Foote tennis court were in full bloom and absolutely magnificent last weekend. Sunday and Monday gave us cool mornings and picture perfect weather.
JANE N. SLATER
508-645-3378
(slaterjn@comcast.net)
Chilmark sends condolences to the family and many friends of Lorna Tilton Flanders who died at her home on Monday. The burial was at Abel’s Hill cemetery on Wednesday. She was part of the Chilmark community most of her life and we will all miss her in many ways. She was the widow of Richard Flanders and mother of Martha and Steve and a proud grandmother.
Hello, Ella
Danielle Dunn and Sam Dunn of Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Ella Byrne Dunn, born on May 27, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Ella weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces at birth.
Women’s Representative
Elaine Weintraub of West Tisbury has been named to a two-year term on the Cape Cod and Islands Commission on the Status of Women.
The appointment was made by Greer Switson, chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women. Ms. Weintraub is a longtime global studies teacher at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and is well known as a community leader on many fronts, including her work with the African American Heritage Trail.
Sunday night’s full moon appears in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius. It is time for the Strawberry Moon. This is as far south as the Full Moon gets and it always takes place in June. Just as astronomers report that the noontime sun is at the highest on the day of summer solstice, the full moon of June is always the lowest full moon of the year.
Gas
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of June 1:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil $3.049 Depot Corner $3.199
Edgartown Mobil $3.259
Oak Bluffs
deBettencourt’s $3.089
Jim’s $3.099
Vineyard Haven
Citgo $3.059
Tisbury Shell $3.069
West Tisbury
Up-Island Automotive $3.069
Menemsha
Menemsha Texaco $2.899
Massachusetts state average (source: AAA) $2.458
Grocery Basket
The chairman of the board of trustees for the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is mired in controversy at another hospital in Hackensack, N.J., where he has resigned his position.
John P. Ferguson, the longtime president and chief executive officer at the Hackensack University Medical Center, stepped down last week amid an unfolding scandal and federal corruption investigation.
