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The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital announced this week that it will soon begin to provide anesthesia services as a collaborative venture with its affiliate Massachusetts General Hospital. Beginning in June, anesthesia coverage for both the surgical and maternity departments at the Island hospital will be provided by the Mass General department of anesthesia, critical care and pain medicine. The collaboration will mean enhanced coverage that will allow the Vineyard hospital to manage two surgical emergencies at the same time, a hospital press release said.
“I was the kid who always wanted to join the Peace Corps and live in a mud hut. Always.”
Little did Suzan Bellincampi know that at the age of 23, that’s exactly where she’d end up.
“Termites like to eat the straw off thatched roofs, so basically the whole roof of the mud hut was covered in termites,” Ms. Bellincampi said of her time in Niger, Africa. “I put on a huge straw hat, took a stick, and pounded on the roof and all the termites came down inside the hut.”
Jane R. Seagrave has been named publisher of the Vineyard Gazette, the newspaper’s owners, Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg, announced today.
Troubles in the Middle East and a sour national economy are not far from the minds of Vineyarders trying to make it through this cold winter. Home heating oil and propane prices went through the roof this week.
Yesterday the retail price for home heating oil was $4.199 a gallon, up 23 cents from Tuesday when the price was $3.969.
The Edgartown conservation commission has cited a pair of Chappaquiddick homeowners for improving their view of Katama Bay in violation of the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and at the expense of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, who owns the property where trees and other vegetation were cleared.
Welcome Matheus
Joelma and Isaias Lage of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Matheus Oliveira Lage, born on Feb. 24 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Matheus weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces at birth.