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Lauren Franklin
Lauren Kate Franklin, of Vineyard Haven, graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in communication studies.
There has been much speculation about 48 Main street in Vineyard Haven ever since July 4, 2008, when fire destroyed Café Moxie and badly damaged the Bunch of Grapes bookstore. With the rubble atCafé Moxie knocked down shortly after the fire, an empty lot sat in the heart of downtown Vineyard Haven.
An Edgartown man who was stabbed last Tuesday in Vineyard Haven died on Saturday at a Boston hospital. Michael Trusty, 45, died Saturday afternoon, Cape and Islands assistant district attorney Laura Marshard told the Edgartown district court yesterday at a pretrial hearing for Ovando Eghill, the defendant in the case.
Mr. Eghill, whose bail was decreased yesterday with conditions, is currently facing charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a knife. He now could be facing additional charges in light of the death of the victim.
SueEllen Rothery already had bought a sandwich at 7a Foods, but for the second time on the day of its grand opening she was back at the new take-out eatery behind Alley’s General Store, waiting patiently. “I bought a sandwich just now to share with my sister, and I brought it home and she had one bite and said, ‘I’m not sharing this.’ So now I’m back again waiting in line for my own sandwich.”
Is Goodale’s sand and gravel pit expanding? On Thursday the Martha’s Vineyard commission said no and sent the matter back to the town of Oak Bluffs.
The Road to Sagarmatha, by Adam Wilson, Xlibris Corporation, Indianapolis, IN 2011, 284 pages, hardcover, $29.99.