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Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. Keith are very pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Lucy Ward Keith, to Mr. Tomas Diagne of Senegal, West Africa, on Saturday, Sept. 18 at the Keith Farm on Middle Road in Chilmark.
Lucy is the granddaughter of E. Bradford and Lucile Keith, formerly of Westwood, and of Hugh Allen and Margaret Ward, formerly of New York city.
At a special town meeting this coming Tuesday night, Aquinnah voters will be asked to buy land for a new affordable housing site and approve a new tax amnesty program, among other things.
Moderator Michael Hebert will preside over the special session that begins at 7 p.m. in the old town hall. There are nine articles on the warrant.
The community preservation committee is asking voters to approve borrowing $240,000 to buy a 6.3-acre parcel of land at 45 State Road to be converted into either affordable homes or rental units.
Dredging at Sengekontacket continued on Wednesday after a weeklong delay in an effort that has already seen what appear to be endless hurdles.
Dredging was halted on Veterans Day after a member of the Wampanoag Tribe registered concerns with the Army Corps of Engineers about the placement of a dewatering plant in the pond. The Army Corps relayed those fears to Oak Bluffs which has spent the week moving the dewatering site from Sengekontacket to State Beach.
The dream of a dedicated fishing pier in the heart of Oak Bluffs is one step closer for Island fishermen after the Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted unanimously last Thursday to approve the project.
Debate over the state-funded, 317-foot, L-shaped pier has been pointed at times, with surfcasters lamenting the loss of public fishing spots in recent decades and abutters fretting over the proposal’s potential impact.
Ingrid Marie Ganske and Christopher Rangeley Looney were married Saturday, Sept. 18 at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. The bride’s uncle, Randall Ross, officiated.
Dr. Ganske, 30, is a second-year resident in Harvard’s Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Program in Boston. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and earned a medical degree at Harvard Medical School. She also holds a Masters of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Zuckerman Fellow.
William Marks at the U.N.
Environmental author William Waterway Marks will be the closing speaker at a United Nations water event on Nov. 30. The event will be attended by representatives of the World Bank, the Arab Water Council, United Nations Development Programme, UNESCO, and various nations.
Mr. Marks is publisher of the awardwinning book Water Voices from Around The World. His speech will include commentary about the world water crisis along with projected photographs and quotes from his Water Voices book.