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The rain outside trickled down the windows of Howes House in West Tisbury last Tuesday morning as Jeanne Hewett began reading a piece written by fellow Howes House writer Charles Blank, who could not attend the event. The story included images of playtime for a little boy, with games of war and pirates using twigs and branches as weapons.
“What is it about males that they always played war?” asked Brigitta Lent at the end of the reading. “Even a gentle soul like Charles?”
There’s a soft buzz coming from the car radio, a faint hum of interference as you drive around the Island searching for the perfect song to get you in the mood. Sometimes the automatic tuner slides right by it, other times it settles in somewhere amongst the buzz to 93.7, the home of Vineyard community radio station WVVY.
Blue Heron Farm, the Chilmark estate that has been rented by President Obama and his family for the last three summers for their summer vacation, has been placed on the market for sale, Wallace & Co. Sotheby’s International Realty announced today.
Schools reopen today on the Vineyard. Watch your speed on those wet roads.
The Edgartown board of health has detected elevated nitrates in water drawn from two private wells in a neighborhood off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road that includes Shady Oak Lane, Price’s Way, Huckleberry Hill Lane and Dubud Lane.
Plum TV, the lifestyles television network that serves eight resort communities including the Vineyard, abruptly closed down operations Tuesday morning.
Calling the move a “massive restructuring,” the company told employees it will continue to air its local television programming, but the Vineyard staff has been let go, said Tina Miller, general manager for Plum TV on the Vineyard.
“We’re all done,” Ms. Miller said. “My entire staff has been told to move out of the office by the end of the day.”