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We have kittens! The Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard has a cage full of darling kittens already to go to new homes. Three are nine weeks old and one is about 13 weeks old; they are all black or black and white. There are two males and two are females and all are as cute and playful as kittens should be. Come soon to get your choice or they will be gone.
In May, Richard (RJ) Cage and his two sons built a handicap accessible vegetable garden at the Farm Institute. They used old barn wood to create the raised bed, making sure it was tall enough for wheelchair users to be able to lean over and pick crops easily. Over the summer more than 10 participants from the Seven Hills Foundation, a year-round day program for adults with developmental disabilities, worked in the garden two to three times a week.
Bully. Target. Bystander. Hero.
The vocabulary words took on greater meaning for elementary school students at the Edgartown School on Thursday morning as they watched eight junior high students in the IMP theater program present Assertions, a series of monologues on the topic of bullying.
On Tuesday morning, a group of high school IMP players performed a similar piece for a middle school audience.
The first time I visited New England, my family came to see cousins who had moved to Montpelier, Vt. It was early October, and on one of the first days of our trip we headed to the farmers’ market in the middle of town.
Each farm stand held wooden crates overflowing with the most amazing variety of apples I had ever seen, in many shades of red, brown, yellow and orange, and in all shapes and sizes. These were not the Red Delicious, Yellow Delicious and Granny Smiths I was used to eating at home — there were Beacons, Idareds, Jonagolds, Gravensteins and more.
Some folks look at a piece of corn on the cob and think, “tasty.” Others think of pygmy goats and natural dyes.
Vineyard House, the residential program for early substance abuse recovery, announced a $3 million capital campaign this week to build a new facility in Vineyard Haven.
Board president Mark Jenkins said the new facility — a campus-style complex located on Short Hill Road, off of Holmes Hole Road in Vineyard Haven — will enable the organization to address substance abuse in a fuller scope. Since its inception in 1997, Vineyard House, the only sober-living facility on the Island, has operated out of three separate houses staffed entirely by volunteers.