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Traffic and bus service up-Island will be affected by road closures and rerouting during the president's visit beginning Saturday. Police and public safety officials are advising Islanders and visitors to allow extra time to reach their destinations and to expect traffic delays at times.
Solvig Sayre of Vineyard Haven has been named to the dean’s list at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla. for the spring 2013 semester.
The 50-year-old man wearing a plaid shirt said he struggled with heroin addiction for years. He lost a house and everything else when he was addicted, he said, once selling his truck for drugs.
Things changed when his daughter was born. He was clean at the time and while before he had “no compunction or moral dilemma” about doing drugs, now “something there needed me.”
Hugh Weisman’s daughter Jennifer Sullivan was 13 years old when the first Chilmark Road Race was held in 1978. On Saturday, Mr. Weisman’s grandchildren, 15 and 18 years old, will run the same course.
“It’s become a big family tradition for a lot of people, and year after year people come back just for this week,” Mr. Weisman.
Fifty years ago this month Harry Belafonte helped make history. On August 28, 1963, Mr. Belafonte, at Martin Luther King Jr.’s behest, recruited celebrities to speak to the estimated 250,000 Americans assembled on the Washington Mall — an event which, for many, defined a decade, even a century.
President Obama and his family will return to Martha’s Vineyard Saturday for a weeklong vacation, his fourth trip to the Island during his time in office.