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Welcome Wyatt
Laurie and Wagner Pereira of Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Wyatt Ronan Pereira, born on Sept. 26, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Wyatt weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces at birth.
Autumn is in the air with the coming of the Living Local Harvest Festival, which starts Friday night at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury.
The two-day event will feature local food including roasted pig, freshly pressed cider, pumpkins (some launched into the air by catapult), events for kids, music by local musicians, storytelling, plus demonstrations on how to live more in sync with our environment.
Basil Welch, a quintessential Island character and longtime Chilmarker, died on Sept. 24. He was 87 and was a poet, woodcarver, photographer, fisherman and hunter. He served as Chilmark cemetery superintendent for many years and was known for his humorous written accounts in the annual town reports. “There have been burials again this year, all loved ones — young and old. I don’t think it is necessary to count them. Just one is too many,” he wrote in 1987.
Responding to a public outcry over a proposal to close its reservations office near the airport, the Steamship Authority has come up with a plan to offer the same services at a counter in the airport terminal.
At its September meeting in Nantucket last Tuesday, the SSA Board directed General Manager Wayne C. Lamson to negotiate a five-year lease with the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission for counter and office space so it can continue to offer walk-in service for Island residents in the middle of the Island.
Chilmark voters have again rejected using town funds to restore the historic Tea Lane Farm House.
At a special town meeting on Monday night, former town treasurer Judy Jardin moved to indefinitely postpone an article asking for $550,000 to renovate the farmhouse, arguing it did not make economic sense.
The future of the historic Tea Lane farmhouse will be in the hands of Chilmark voters at a special town meeting tonight as they decide whether or not to back a $550,000 project to restore the farmhouse and prepare the land for a tenant farmer.
The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. Longtime moderator Everett Poole will preside over the 11-article warrant.
This will be the second attempt to appropriate funds for the hilltop house which sits at the intersection of Tea Lane and Middle Road.