News
The Tisbury Firefighters Association invites everyone to its annual Car Show, open this Saturday, July 23, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the RM Packer lot and docks on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven.
The show includes more than 50 cars — from classic, custom, antiques and hot rods — and this year includes custom motorcycles. Most of the cars are Island-owned and operated.
Thanks to a new service purchased in this new fiscal year by the Edgartown and Vineyard Haven Public Libraries, card-holding patrons in both towns now have access to free songs from the Sony Music catalog of recording artists.
Volunteer with Red Cross
The American Red Cross is looking for Island volunteers for general support, health and safety preparedness, disaster services and military family support.
Training is provided, free of charge.
Volunteer forms are available to download on the web at cciredcross.org; click volunteer, or call 508-775-1540.
Correction
A story in Friday’s paper about a lawsuit brought against Clarence A. (Trip) Barnes 3rd referred to Mr. Barnes’s plan to fight an order to remove unregistered vehicles from his West Tisbury home. Mr. Barnes said he would fight the order to remove storage trailers, not cars.
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Harvard professor Joseph L. Bower was incorrectly named in Tuesday’s story about the Summer Institute lecture at the Hebrew Center.
The Gazette regrets the errors.
By JONAH LIPSKY
Before she began writing and illustrating children’s books, Molly Bang earned master’s degrees in Far Eastern languages and literature from the University of Arizona and Harvard University. These experiences helped her realize, “how unsuited I was for scholarly research and a life spent in libraries.”
She then turned to reporting, learning, essentially, the same lesson. She worked at the Baltimore Sun and discovered, “how unsuited I was as a reporter by getting fired.”
Chief Climber
Chilmark police chief Brian Cioffi is going Over the Edge this weekend. As part of a fund-raising event for Special Olympics Massachusetts, 100 participants who pledge to raise at least $1,000 have a once-in-a-lifetime chance of rappelling 22 stories down Boston’s Hyatt Regency.
As of Thursday morning he had received $7,148 in donations. Anyone may donate online at overtheedgeboston.org, sponsor “edger” Brian Cioffi.