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The Red Stocking Fund has put out an urgent appeal to the Martha’s Vineyard community for toys. The fund has received a record number of qualifying applications, with well over 400 children in genuine need this holiday season.
Organizers are asking anyone in a position to donate to bring toys to the Edgartown and Oak Bluffs Schools, or to Grace Church on Woodlawn avenue in Vineyard Haven, between now and Wednesday; arrangements also can be made to have new toys picked up.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Information: 508-627-7084.
All meetings are nonsmoking.
Sunday, 6:45 a.m., open discussion meeting, First Baptist Church, William street, Vineyard Haven.
Sunday, 10 a.m., open discussion, State Beach, first bridge, Oak Bluffs, (weather permitting).
Sunday, 11 a.m., open discussion meeting at the Council on Aging on Wamsutta avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Sunday, 7 p.m., grapevine meeting at old Oak Bluffs School, School street, Oak Bluffs.
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital announced this week that a series of grants were awarded on Monday under its state-mandated Community Health Initiative.
The West Tisbury library has always been the overachieving runt of the Island library system, keeping its voracious readership sated despite humble resources. Designs for a vastly expanded library unveiled on Monday call for a facility that may finally accommodate that book-hungry community by the spring of 2014.
When you walk into the Martha’s Vineyard Family Planning office in Vineyard Haven, a large bowl full of condoms greets you. No one is staring at you to see if you’ll be the first one to take a few, no one is whispering to the person next to them, there are no judging eyes.
It is this safe environment that family planning program director Patty Begley has worked hard to establish over the past 27 years, even if it did garner her the title of Condom Queen amongst her children’s friends.
The Edgartown Library building committee hit yet another bump in the road this week when the town historic district commission said it will not allow the Warren House to be torn down.
The building committee’s latest plan calls for razing the historic colonial-era house and replacing it with a parking lot for the expanded and renovated library at the Carnegie building on North Water street
But after meeting on Tuesday with the historic district commission, that plan, like others before it, now must be scrapped.