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Vineyard Casual
Liz Stiving-Nichols, owner of Martha’s Vineyard Interior Design, was featured in the August 18 edition of the Boston Globe Style section. The article titled Vineyard Casual focused on coastal décor as well as the many custom furniture pieces designed by Stiving-Nichols and manufactured through her company, Martha’s Vineyard Furniture Company.
For details, see marthasvineyardinteriordesign.com or mvfurnitureco.com.
If there were never another fire in Aquinnah, deputy fire chief Jim Vercruysse would be happy. The prospect of firefighting is not what draws him to the department. He’s a volunteer, like everyone else on the squad, and that means dedication to something greater than himself — his town.
The historic 17th century Barn House in Chilmark, famously home to an avant-garde communal colony of Vineyard artists, writers and intellectuals, is being considered by the Massachusetts Historical Commission for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
Selectmen from three towns say they will push for changes to the Vineyard’s reverse 911 phone system, following complaints about its use by Oak Bluffs last week to publicize arrangements for the town’s Friday fireworks display.
Almost 14,000 people were contacted in four rounds of phone calls on Thursday, as part of an information campaign initiated by Oak Bluffs police chief Erik Blake and approved by the chairman of the Oak Bluffs board of selectmen, Kathleen Burton, and Dukes County Sheriff Michael McCormack.
Faraway, tectonic plates clenched uneasily, brutal regimes held on tenuously and a hurricane gathered confidence, but on Martha’s Vineyard it was still vacation for President Obama and his family.
A temporary flight restriction plan devised by Vineyard airport officials for President Obama’s summer vacation is being hailed as a model for airports across the country to use during future visits by the President and his traveling entourage.