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O Negative Blood Needed
The American Red Cross doesn’t care if you’re a Twilight fan or not; they’re about saving lives. To that end, every pint of blood makes a big difference.
Next Tuesday, June 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the Red Cross will be at the Portuguese-American Club on Vineyard avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Gravestone Girls
The Gravestone Girls are coming to Vineyard Haven. Are you ready?
The girls are cemetery historians who claim as their mission to keep the dead alive. On Tuesday, June 21 at 7 p.m. they will appear at the Vineyard Haven Library to lead a virtual tour through the Vineyard’s 31 graveyards.
There were plenty of clams shelled out on Saturday afternoon at Nancy’s Snack Bar in Oak Bluffs, and all for a good cause. It was the fifth annual quahaug and oyster shucking contest, and this year the cause was the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard, which collected a lot of clams — $1,000 to be exact.
The Vineyard has changed a lot since 1975. The landscape, the people and the place have all changed.
But if there is one constant in a sea of change for the past 36 years, surely it is William Wilcox. He was the face of the county extension service for so many years people stopped counting, there at the ready to help Vineyard farmers with their crops, their soil and their pests. And for many more years he has been the water quality resource planner for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
The band played the Pirates of the Caribbean theme as the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School class of 2011 milled about the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, ready to line up for their final procession as high school kids. In the Tabernacle, it was standing room only with hundreds of friends, family, teachers and neighbors gathered to watch the graduation ceremonies. Overhead the skies threatened rain, but the event stayed dry except for the occasional shower of tears.
And then there were eight.
Eight tennis teams left playing in the MIAA Team Tournament as the section finals got underway last Friday afternoon. Eight teams, the best in the state, fighting to extend their season at least a few more days — maybe even an extra week if they made it all the way to the state final.