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It was the night before Christmas and all through the Shelter
Not a kitty was stirring or running helter skelter — not a peep!
You see they all knew that on Christmas Eve — all animals can speak!
Their new rocking chair (a gift from a friend), was set in its place —
They were all waiting patiently for Santa to come rock them and love them
and find them much peace.
There were Ceilia and Cyrus, our black Shelter mascots.
Aquinnah selectmen appointed acting fire chiefs this week as they begin the task of putting back together a depleted and leaderless fire department.
Capt. Simon Bollin is now acting deputy chief, the second in command, and Jay Smalley is assistant chief. The appointments are effective immediately and meant to establish a new chain of command to the thinly-staffed department, selectmen said.
Announcing Hazel
Holly Thomas and Gregory Ehrman (and sister Ella Ehrman) of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Hazel Jane Ehrman, born on Dec. 15, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Hazel weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces at birth.
Kenny Ponte is a good-natured, soft-spoken man who developed diabetes when he was two years old.
“It was a hard process,” he said of growing up with the illness. “It makes you different from the other kids in terms of what you can eat, the ways you can have reactions. As I got older, the diabetes started getting worse. When I found out about how my kidneys were being damaged, it was another thing to deal with.”
Low-fat is not part of the vocabulary at the Savory Pie Company.
“I’ve had people ask me if I had any low-fat and I look at them like you’ve got to be kidding me,” owner Dee Smith said at her Tea Lane Catering kitchen in Chilmark this week. “There’s a need for gluten free and we’re just starting with that, but there’s certainly no word like low-fat in our category of pies.”
Dust off your sneakers, sharpen your skates and get ready to burn off that eggnog. Or just round up the family and cheer on the hometown boys, girls, men and women of present and years past.