Community
Women Empowered will celebrate three local women who make a big impact on the Island at a Women of the Year champagne brunch on Sept. 29 at the Harbor View Hotel. The women are Sarah Kuh with Vineyard Healthcare Access, Noli Taylor, who heads up the Island Grown Initiative and Lee Fierro from Island Theatre Workshop.
While some herald September’s quieter streets and diminishing crowds, Eugene (Geno) Courtney said the end of the season makes him blue.
“It’ll start winding down,” he said Wednesday, sitting on the South Summer street bench that doubles as his front office. “Come Labor Day, with the sudden drop, I get a little sad, a little bit depressed. I haven’t gotten used to it."
Earlier this month the Ecuadorian community of Martha’s Vineyard celebrated their independence day at the Old English Gazebo located at Morgan Woods in Edgartown. The event began with the commemoration of another year of the Ecuadorian Heroic Deed of 1809 that led to independence from the Spanish crown.
The Tisbury Firefighters Association holds its annual car show from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 1, on Main street in Vineyard Haven. Everyone is welcome to come check out the autos, live music and food. Entrance fee for vehicles is $10 and photographs will be taken of each with the winners to be chosen for a calendar.
Never count your chickens before they are hatched or your cats before they walk out the door of the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard with a new owner. Our shy black tom cat, Michael, emerged from hiding into the arms of someone who promised him a home.
Some came straight from the beach with sandy feet, while others had just emerged from a nighttime bath, but the children who attended the Chilmark selectmen’s meeting Tuesday had a single message: don’t close Crab Corner.