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Freshly potted plants, new shrubs and flowers adorn the Martha’s Vineyard Airport, thanks to Girl Scout troop 80802, whose community project came to an end this weekend. The girls have been out there at least once a week since mid-April, assisting in weeding, gardening and planting new flowers in front of the terminal, the playground and the waiting area at Gate Three.
Meeting Continued
The Ritz in Oak Bluffs is a dimly lit joint, hot and smelling of beer and smoke, even though people have to go outside to inhale. There’s live music tonight and the bar is packed. On the floor, a DJ gets people dancing before the headlining band, Dukes County Love Affair, goes on.
Jamie Greene, the drummer of DCLA, sits towards the edge of the room prior to playing, watching the crowd.
Mike Parker, the singer, gets six Rolling Rocks from the bar, one for each band member. He cracks them all and carries them to the dance floor. Then they begin.
Models Wanted
You are too sexy for your skin, you know it, and now it’s time to let everyone else know it too.
Fashion Week is headed our way later this summer but the fancy finery doesn’t walk down the catwalk by itself. It takes a body, man or woman five foot six or taller, sixteen years old or more, to sell it.
Are you challenging me to a walk-off..Boo-lander?
Oak Bluffs Library Open
The Oak Bluffs Library is open again after an unpleasant sewage backup forced it to close last week.
Library director Danguole Budris notified the board of health and the highway department last Tuesday when sewage began spilling into the library staff room.
The problem was corrected, but the library remained closed until Saturday while town workers removed soiled carpeting and attacked the cleanup using bleach.
Ms. Budris said it was the third such backup since May.
Habitat Needs Volunteers
Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard is looking for volunteers to help renovate a house donated by the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank. Build days are scheduled on Fridays and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The build site is located at the end of Bailey Park Road, off Great Plains Road off Old County Road in West Tisbury. Ask for Lee Taberner or Neal Sullivan on site, e-mail [email protected] or call the Habitat office at 508-696-4646 for more information.