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Six boats were destroyed and four heavily damaged in an early morning fire at a storage facility at the airport business park, the owner of the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard confirmed on Friday.
Two Islands for Isabelle
Isabelle Anne Horton was born Sunday, May 22, at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, weighing 6 pounds, 4 ounces. She is the daughter of Samantha and Michael Horton, and the sister of Alexander, all of Nantucket. Her grandparents are Meverell and Anne Good of Vineyard Haven, and Travis and Nancy Horton of Glastonbury, Conn. Her great-grandmother is Lilian Horton of Glastonbury.
This was a fine summer for weather. There was plenty of sunshine, plenty of good sailing weather and enough rain. The three months that make up summer on the Vineyard, June through August, were in large part visitor friendly. Rainfall events were more often short, frequent and at night, which would please both the swimmer and the farmer.
There were only a few significant weather events: a hurricane that missed the Island and a rare severe thunderstorm in July that produced a lot of lightning and thunder and a quick, heavy shower.
The Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group had one of its most productive summers, mass producing millions of baby quahaugs, bay scallops and oysters. And to top it all off, the shellfish hatchery produced twice the usual numbers of bay scallop seed.
New teachers and in some places new leaders will populate the classrooms and corridors of the public schools on the Vineyard when the school year begins next Thursday.
And the West Tisbury School has a practically new building.