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Oak Bluffs finally closed the books on fiscal year 2010 on Tuesday after selectmen conducted an exit interview with town auditors from Powers and Sullivan.
It wasn’t an altogether damning report from the accounting firm given the town’s recent fiscal woes but accountant Jim Powers did single out some areas that may still need to be remedied.
In the summer of 1963, America was on the brink of being split apart by the tumult of the Viet Nam War, the Civil Rights movement and Bob Dylan going electric.
The folk music revival was in full swing and was making a big impact in the popular culture. Martha’s Vineyard got caught up in the folk music movement that summer when David Lyman, the manager of a coffeehouse in Boston, and Philip Metcalf, a college student with a car and knowledge of the Vineyard, opened a coffeehouse called the Moon-Cusser.
Union Chapel
Rev. Kate Braestrup, New York Times best-selling author of Here If You Need Me and one of the first chaplains appointed to the Maine Warden Service, will preach this Sunday, at 10 a.m. in Union Chapel, Oak Bluffs The widely-known writer and author’s sermon title is Hope Is a Thing With Fangs.
The Wampanoag water testing lab has a clean bill of health this week after a visit from the state Department of Public Health. The lab has been under scrutiny after test results for beaches in Edgartown and Oak Bluffs last week showed levels of the bacteria enterococcus at levels high enough to close South Beach in Edgartown and Inkwell Beach in Oak Bluffs, results that were not duplicated by water testing facilities in Tisbury and Chatham.
As soon as he rounded the corner to walk down to the dock, dozens of blue lights began to flash, sirens wailed and trumpets, nearly silent by comparison, tootled those age-old American anthems. Sgt. James (Chris) Brown had just returned to the Island from a nine-month tour of duty as a member of the Army 181st Infantry as part of a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, and the community marked it as only they could.
West Nile Virus has arrived on the Vineyard. On Thursday the Massachusetts Department of Health announced that a single mosquito collected in Tisbury tested positive for the disease and health officials are asking Islanders to take reasonable preventive measures.