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Why Can’t Grownups Have Story Time?
It is cold outside. Snow dots the landscape. Smoke billows from chimneys. Stars light the way on Island roads as early as five o’clock. What better time, really, than to curl up with a good story.
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal Stephen Nixon announces the honor roll for the first quarter of the 2010-2011 academic year.
Grade 12 high honors go to: Hannah Elias Celeste Ewing, Jesse Fogg, Sarah Johnson and Kira Shipway.
Grade 11 high honors go to: Riley Donegan, Maya Harcourt, EmmaJean Holley, Christine Janak, Elke Klein, Caitlin Serpa, John Shannon, William Stewart and Liam Wallace.
A 26-year-old Edgartown woman was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital on Monday afternoon following an unusual single-car crash on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road across from the regional high school.
After every snowfall you may have noticed a series of odd, tube-shaped slides, wending mostly through Island woodlands but also over roads and even into downtown Oak Bluffs or Edgartown. The creatures that left these mysterious trails are less easy to spot, but recent research carried out by two Vineyard scientists suggests they are abundant. They are coastal river otters.
Tom Hodgson of Tiasquam Road in West Tisbury once again reports the year’s first snowdrops, nestled under the shelter of a bush on Music street; it’s the perfect microhabitat for early bloom.
Clarence (Trip) Barnes 3rd, the colorful Island business owner long associated with his namesake trucking company, is now seeking a new title: green technology pioneer.