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This fall Island dogs have brought home an array of honors from off-Island agility and rally obedience trials. Two teams — Katy Upson and her Scottish terrier, Dundee; and Valerie Becker and her cairn terrier, Toby — completed the requirements for their rally novice title at the South Shore Kennel Club Show at the Barnstable County fairgrounds on Sept. 18. Earning “legs” toward their rally advanced title were Karen Ogden and her Australian shepherd, Nolan, and Susanna Sturgis and her Alaskan malamute, Travvy.
The difference between a politician and a statesmen, someone once observed, is that a politician’s time horizon extends only as far as the next election.
So it was in statesman mode that Cong. William Delahunt arrived at the Gazette office last weekend, for perhaps a last editorial board discussion with the newspaper. He will not be a politician anymore after the election. But he will leave, unlike most of the Democrats who (the polls tell us) will be out after this election, at the time of his own choosing.
Vineyard voters will go to the polls to cast ballots in unusually close elections at the federal, state and local levels on Tuesday.
The closest of them, and one of the hottest contests in the nation, is the race for the 10th congressional district which includes the Cape and Islands. The most recent polling puts the seat, vacant due to the retirement of Democratic Cong. William Delahunt, as too close to call.
The Island Affordable Housing Fund announced this week that Alan Wiener, a seasonal resident of Edgartown, has joined its board of directors.
Mr. Wiener is the group head of New York-based Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital, a company which specializes in government-sponsored enterprise financing through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs and Federal Housing Administration-insured financing.
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football coach Don Herman expected his 200th win to be a private accomplishment. “I never mentioned anything to my players,” he said in an interview in his office at the high school on Wednesday. But last Thursday as the coach walked off the practice field he was amused to hear the team break from its huddle. “Two hundred!” they shouted.
Nstar is set to install nine new poles on Meeting House Way following an affirmative vote by the Edgartown selectmen at their weekly meeting on Monday.
Selectman Art Smadbeck expressed concern about the addition of more overhead lines; the town adopted a policy a few years back requiring all future electricity construction to be done underground.