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Beth O’Connor was nine years old when she began skating at the Martha’s Vineyard Ice Arena. At that time, the arena had just a roof, and players hung tarps around the sides in the winter to keep rain and snow off the ice. In 1992 the arena was enclosed for year-round skating and locker rooms were added to the building a few years later.
“I’ve watched the arena be cut and pasted together over the years,” Ms. O’Connor said. “It’s been great to see it grow.”
The Edgartown selectmen Monday approved a change of location for a downtown Edgartown liquor store that’s moving to the airport.
Brion McGroarty Sr. and Brion McGroarty Jr. came before selectmen to ask to transfer their year-round liquor license from Mayhew Lane to a location near the Martha’s Vineyard Airport.
The name will also change from Town Provisions Company to Martha’s Vineyard Wine and Spirits.
Lucy Thompson lives on Spring Moon Farm off Lambert’s Cove Road, a here-an-oink, there-an-oink working farm. It requires all the dawn-to-dusk responsibilities involved with raising cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, pigs and other animals, plus all the daily work of maintaining a lush garden that tumbles over with herbs, melons, squash, and a variety of vegetables.
A new commercial-scale solar project and development of a wind turbine project south of the Island top the to-do list for Vineyard Power in the coming year, leaders of the cooperative told members last weekend.
When Lorena Crespo moved to the Island six years ago, her English was shaky. So she enrolled in an English as a Second Language class taught by Lynn Ditchfield at the high school.
At first, she didn’t know many people here, but her classes in ESL and art education expanded her social circle. And when she wanted to advance her degree in early childhood education, Adult and Community Education of Martha’s Vineyard (ACE MV) offered her that opportunity also.
Summer Soul MV presents a full day of events to raise funds for organizations that support cancer patients. These organizations include Angel Flight New England, Martha’s Vineyard Cancer Support Group, The Look Good Feel Better Program of the American Cancer Society and the Scan Van program of Project Renewal. All four organizations will share proceeds from a health care panel and fund raising brunch to be held at Dreamland, and an artisans fair at Union Chapel, both in Oak Bluffs on Monday, August 12.