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Please Adopt Us
The sweet little pug named Rascal is back with us at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard. He was adopted right away but came back because the other dog in the house decided that Rascal had visited long enough. We think Rascal would do better being the only dog — he gets along beautifully with cats and has made friends with Lily and Cyrus and Ceilia who have the freedom to roam the shelter and greet everyone who comes through the door. Won’t you please come and take Rascal for a walk? You will fall in love with him.
Chilmark selectmen will ask the U.S. Coast Guard to reconsider its denial of town insurance claims from the Menemsha boathouse fire. On advice of their town counsel, the selectmen decided not to pursue an appeal through the U.S. District Court, at least for now.
On Wednesday Sam Feldman pulled up a picture of a bathing beauty on his iPad. It was his wife, Gretchen, when she was only 20, the year he met her.
“So, that’s why I was sad and lonely,” he said lingering over the picture before putting it away. “Is that a good enough reason?”
Mrs. Feldman died in 2008, leaving Mr. Feldman adrift and alone for the first time in decades.
Applications for the South Shore Community Action Council’s fuel assistance program for the 2012 season must be received by April 30.
Volleyball Winners
The West Tisbury volleyball team defeated the Oak Bluffs Blazers in five sets last Wednesday during the middle school championship game, giving the Hawks their third interscholastic title of the 2011-2012 sports season.
The Hawks won the first two sets 25-21, 25-23, but Oak Bluffs came back in the next two (25-12, 25-22) to tie the match. West Tisbury closed out with a 15-5 fifth set.
Earlier this year, the West Tisbury girls won the annual middle school track meet; the boys shared the track title with the Tisbury School.
By IVY ASHE
Nearly all of the Vineyard teams compete at home this week; of particular note are the sailing team’s races against Harwich on Tuesday at 3 p.m. Competition takes place on Lagoon Pond and can be viewed from Sailing Camp Park.
Baseball
The Vineyarders rose to the challenge of playing three games in two days last week, taking home two wins on clutch performances.
“Two out of three was pretty awesome,” head coach Gary Simmons said. “Things are falling into place.”