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West Tisbury selectmen agreed this week to move a World War II memorial from an inaccessible and rarely visited site at the intersection of West Tisbury and State Roads to a location closer to town hall. The exact site near town hall has been up for debate as selectmen originally proposed placing it near a holly tree in front of the building, but others have suggested that the memorial be closer to a flag.
Run for the Library
Registration is open now for the 14th annual Friends of the Vineyard Haven Library 5K Run/Walk, which will be held on Sunday, Sept. 11. There will also be a half-mile fun run for kids.
Registration forms are available at the library, and online at vhlibrary.org. Registered runners will receive a T-shirt, and there is a discount for registering in advance.
Sitting in her customary spot, next to her husband, Jay, on the top bench of the bleachers behind home plate, Doris Clark is a sort of mother hen to the Sharks, the Vineyard’s new baseball team, who brought the Futures Collegiate Baseball League to the Island for the first season this summer. The season is now over, but while it lasted, she was there at pretty much every game, cheering the players on, calling to them by name.
On the face of it, Suellen Lazarus might seem an odd person to have started a book festival. She was a banker, not a professional bibliophile or bookstore owner or writer.
But in a way, it was her other busy life which led her to start such an event on the Vineyard six years ago. For she associates reading with downtime.
She is one of those people who always packs five or six books when she goes on vacation. Even if she doesn’t get around to reading them all, their mere presence is a happy indicator of leisure, a calming thing.
Pan-Martha Bike Ride
The Pan-Martha Challenge, 50-mile bike-a-thon around Martha’s Vineyard on August 27, will benefit life-saving cancer research charities.
Beginning in Oak Bluffs, pedaling through Edgartown, out to Chilmark and Aquinnah, and back through Vineyard Haven, the Pan-Martha Challenge is not only a beautiful was to experience Martha’s Vineyard, 100 per cent of every rider-raised dollar is donated directly to local cancer research charities.
A year after his court-ordered reinstatement as fire investigator in Oak Bluffs, Peter Martell says the town is not honoring his position. Last June a Dukes County superior court judge found that Oak Bluffs fire chief Peter Forend had no legal or justifiable reason for dismissing Mr. Martell. In May a Dukes County superior court judge ordered the town to pay some $35,700 in attorney’s fees.
But Mr. Martell said the fire department has not made good on his reinstatement.