Receive Degrees

Kristen M. Merullo of Oak Bluffs and Lukas B. Bradley of West Tisbury graduated this past May from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

House Available

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank is accepting bids for the removal of a house on Jeffers Lane on Chappaquiddick. A bid package is available at the land bank office at 167 Main street, Edgartown, or by calling 508-627-7141. Bids must be received in the land bank by 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17.

Jack Arrives

Tracy Ann and William Oteri and big sister Danielle announce the birth of Jack Anthony Oteri, born on Nov. 26 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Jack weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at birth.

Screenplay Contest

Dick Upson, a longtime Chilmark summer resident as well as a former Vineyard radio personality on WVOI-FM, just won the 2007 Horror Screenplay Competition’s Grand Prize from the Rhode Island International Film Festival for a horror film that is set on the Vineyard.

Mr. Upson is a professor of communications at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I.

Welcome Maverick

Karen Ann Casper and Pieter Pil of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Maverick Christopher Robert Gedeon Pil, born on Nov. 28 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces at birth.

Courtney Sullivan and David Luce of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Jayden Marie Luce, born on Nov. 28 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces at birth.