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The former Falmouth town manager will take the top administrative post in Oak Bluffs, following a unanimous vote by the town selectmen Tuesday.
Robert Whritenour, who served as Falmouth town administrator for 10 years, will take over as interim town administrator. He was the only final candidate for the position after a second finalist dropped out last week.
Selectmen cited Mr. Writenour’s strong financial background and managerial experience as pluses.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown will be the featured speaker at a breakfast to be held Monday, August 15, at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury. The event is being sponsored by the Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce.
The event will begin at 7:15 a.m. with a continental breakfast catered by Kitchen Porch Catering, with the formal program to follow at 8 a.m. Senator Brown will be introduced by State Sen. Dan Wolf.
The cost to attend the event is $20, which includes breakfast. Tickets must be reserved in advance by calling 508-693-0085, ext. 0. No tickets will be sold at the door.
Chilmark firefighters quickly quelled a small fire at Blue Heron Farm early Tuesday morning. Chilmark fire chief David Norton said the call came in at 3:30 a.m. from an automatic fire alarm in the farmhouse. The fire was in the wall of the main house near a porch that had a gas grill on it. Firefighters had the fire out within a matter of minutes, Mr. Norton said. “Very small, very contained, extinguished quickly,” the fire chief said. He said the cause of the fire was the gas grill.
In concert with their colleagues on the mainland, six striking Verizon wireline workers picketed yesterday outside the telephone company office on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road in Vineyard Haven.
Paul Barrere is laughing. It’s 9:30 in the morning, after a show in the Poconos, and the saucy, funky guitar player is basking in the afterglow of another night being a catalyst in one of America’s longest running musical hybrids. While Little Feat has never had the commercial success of Southern California contemporaries Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt or the Eagles, they have remained a secret handshake among a musictocracy that truly knows the good stuff.
Martha’s Vineyard knows Nancy Aronie in many ways. She is the mother of two beautiful sons, Josh Aronie, who owns and runs the Menemsha Café, and Dan Aronie, who recently died after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. She was instrumental in bringing the story of Dan’s illness, and the inner transformation that it brought to him and those around him, to the community in the film A Certain Kind of Beauty.