News
Announcing Aurora
Alicia and Dave Christensen of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Aurora Rose Christensen, born on August 29, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Aurora weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces at birth. She is welcomed by her big brother, Aidan.
A scientific buoy was among the flotsum that washed up on South Beach when the remnants of Hurricane Irene passed over the Island two weeks ago. Susan Snider found the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution buoy on last Sunday and submitted the photograph to the Gazette.
Janet Fredericks, an operations manager for the institution, wrote and said it was a guard buoy, a marker used to alert and keep vessels away from the underwater scientific gear beneath. The institution maintains a sub-sea observatory along with a shoreside weather observatory.
Fair Posters Reprinted
The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Livestock Show and Fair 2011 posters have been reprinted and are now available for purchase. Checks can be made out to MVAS for $20 and sent to Martha’s Vineyard Agriculture Society, P.O. Box 73, West Tisbury, 02575, or call 508-693-9549.
Chilmark selectmen this week approved a warrant for a special town meeting later this month, reviewed damage from tropical storm Irene and discussed a draft revision of the Tri-Town Ambulance Service agreement.
Susan Foster Oliver and Douglas Campbell Kerridge were married on August 27. The Rev. Dr. Timothy B. Cogan performed the ceremony at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.
Susan, 34, is vice president of strategy for TONIX Pharmaceuticals in New York city. She attended the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., and graduated from Bowdoin College with an AB in classics and archaeology. She also received an MPhil in fine and decorative arts from Christie’s in London and an MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
Welcome Marc
Daniella Andrade and Agentil Oliveira of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Marc Anthony Chaves Lacerda, born on Sept. 5, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Marc weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces at birth.