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Announcing Olivia
Kristy Maciel and Nicholas Weyl of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Olivia Jodi-May Weyl, born on Sept. 2, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Olivia weighed 5 pounds, 7.5 ounces at birth.
Plum TV, the lifestyle cable television network targeting the Island and seven other upscale vacation communities, abruptly laid off much of its workforce this week including the entire Vineyard staff in what is being called a major restructuring of the company.
, The fishing is about to change big time, when the 66th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby opens this Sunday. A week of wet weather, remnant of two tropical storms, has only stirred the waters around the Vineyard. The fish are here. Many anglers are poised and waiting.
The month-long fishing contest that offers more than a quarter of a million dollars in prizes is about to begin.
Wearing empty backpacks and new outfits, their cheeks still rosy from the summer sun, a long line of students stood outside the Oak Bluffs School waiting to meet their new principal, Richie Smith, on Thursday morning.
Huddled under the awning, the students and Mr. Smith refused to let a September downpour dampen their spirits. This was the first day of school, and everyone was ready for a fresh start.
Class of 1961 Reunion
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Class of 1961 will gather for their 50th class reunion the weekend of Sept. 16 to 18.
The reunion committee has planned a three-day affair, beginning with a welcome back party Friday at Mary Ellen Smith Larsen’s home 6 to 9 p.m. There will be a dinner at Saltwater restaurant at 6 p.m. on Saturday, and a cookout at Richard Olsen’s at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
Tickets are available for dinner and cost $85 per person.
At the Oak Bluffs selectmen’s meeting on Wednesday night, where for months an empty chair has sat next to the board, Robert Whritenour took in the spectacle. It has been a whirlwind three days for the interim town administrator who has stepped into his new job just as the latest painful round of budget cutting, and acrimony, begins. Wednesday’s meeting was classic Oak Bluffs with outspoken, passionate and sometimes testy exchanges.
And Mr. Whritenour relished every minute of it.