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Dean’s List
Ashley Drake, of Edgartown, has been named to the dean’s list at Boston University for the fall 2011 semester.
Young Poets Award
On April 5 at 4 p.m. witness the future of poetry on the Vineyard. Featherstone Center for the Arts is hosting a reading of the winners of its annual Promising Young Poets award. This is the third year this contest has honored high school age poets whose work shows extraordinary promise.
The winners are Annabelle Hackney, Oscar Thompson, Claudia Taylor, Paige Taylor, Sarah Gruner, and Lizzie Kelleher, with runners-up Maddie Scott and Samantha Valley
The public is invited to attend the reading.
Full Moon Dance
Next Saturday, April 7, there will be a full moon dance party at The Anchors, located on Dock street in Edgartown. The party is a singles social for those fifty years old and over. Billed as a low-key social hangout, the idea is for it to occur monthly, in sync with the moon’s waxing. The party is from 5 to 7 p.m. and will include refreshments, music, games and dancing. There is no charge, but donations are accepted.
For more information, call Susan at 508-627-9627.
Comedy Night
It’s comedy night at the Harborview Hotel again.
On March 30, the hotel welcomes Joe Larson, Mike Whitman and Taylor Connelly to its stage. This is the third in an ongoing series of winter and spring comedy nights. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door and available by calling 508-627-7000.
This is a 21 and older show.
Two women were killed and a third injured after their car crashed into a tree on private land belonging to the Kennedy family Tuesday afternoon.
The driver, 70-year-old Judith Morse from West Tisbury, and front-seat passenger Susan S. Lombard, 69, of Lyman, NH, were pronounced dead at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, according to the Massachusetts state police. The rear-seat passenger, Susan Papanicolaou, 68 of Minneapolis, sustained minor injuries and was treated at the hospital.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission got its first look at the Edgartown National Bank’s ambitious plans to demolish Oak Bluffs restaurant Oyster Bar and build a three-story building in its place. On Monday, building plans presented to commissioners included a bank branch, two commercial units and four two-story townhouse condominiums at the site of the former Circuit avenue restaurant.