News
Announcing Italo
Marilene G. Queiroga and Flauber F. De Souza of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Italo Queiroga Fernandes De Souza, born on April 7, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Italo weighed 7 pounds, 9.2 ounces at birth.
Oak Bluffs voters today elected two challengers, former businessmen Walter Vail and restaurateur Mike Santoro, to the board of selectmen, replacing a pair of two-term selectmen, Ron DiOrio and board chairman Duncan Ross.
In Edgartown, voters made a clean sweep of the library board of trustees, electing Julie Lively, Deanna Ahern-Laird and Bob Avakian.
Complete coverage will appear in Friday’s Gazette.
Leads Symposium
Dr. Bryan Graham, a certified chiropractic sports physician, cochaired this year’s American chiropractic board of sports physicians’ national symposium held from April 8 to 10 in Boston. The board promotes the highest standards of excellence and clinical competence for chiropractors specializing in sports medicine and physical fitness. Dr. Graham practices at Vineyard Complementary Medicine.
The Tisbury School announces the honor roll for the second quarter of the 2010-2011 academic year.
Grade five high honors: Margaret Burke, Casey McCarron, Elizabeth Williamson.
Grade five honors: Carolyn Duarte, Curtis Fisher, Emily Hewson, Cole Houston, Alexis Hughes, Sophia Kent, Coralee LaRue, Graham Lewis, Dillon McAndrews, Evelyn Medeiros, Michael Moore, Gabriel Nadelstein, Finn O’Callaghan, Larner Peak, Lily Pigott, Devon Teves, Benjamin Tillman.
Grade six high honors: Patrick Best, Ethan Mendez.
L ast month during a discussion of an expansion of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) bottle bill that provides for redemption centers around the commonwealth, Oak Bluffs selectmen half-jokingly suggested lobbying the state to include in the bill what are known as nips, a particularly popular denomination of hard alcohol on the Island. Empty nip bottles increasingly line street curbs and thickets of Vineyard dune grass.
What do Mark Allen and the tall ship Providence have in common? They’ll both be on hand for the inaugural Vineyard Warrior Triathlon in September. Race director Matt Brackman says he is pulling out all the stops to make this one of the most memorable races in the country, and, he hopes, an annual stop for beginner and elite racers alike.