Hotdog Days of Summer

Libraries usually wear a cloak of quiet contemplation. Perhaps there’s some rambunctiousness at story hour toddlers are not known for their decorum but in general they are studious places meant for finding and reading that particular book.

But this Monday, Sept. 6, the Edgartown Library is putting away the shusher and road tripping it out to Katama Airport for a rocking evening of hotdogs, music, climbing walls and airplane acrobatics.

Please Adopt Us

The Animal Shelter is bursting at the seams with cats, kittens, guinea pigs, a bunny, and one beautiful dog. She is a handsome fawn boxer cross, young and very sweet and her name is Katama. She loves to go for walks and loves people. Won’t someone please come to see her? You will fall in love with her!

As of 2 p.m. Thursday most Island towns had declared a state of emergency due to the oncoming approach of hurricane Earl, according to an announcement that went out via the Island Code Red system.

Hurricane Earl is growing in size and remains on track to pass close to the Cape and Islands, bringing hurricane winds to Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Cape Cod, the National Hurricane Center director Bill Read said Thursday afternoon.

In a media conference call, Mr. Read said he anticipated the eye of the storm would be “huge” by the time it got here, making for a much larger area of destructive winds.

Emergency preparations are under way all across the Vineyard, as Hurricane Earl crawls up the eastern seaboard, a powerful category four storm. Earl is expected to brush the outer islands along the Carolina coast late Thursday; forecasters are now calling for the storm to pass the Cape and Islands sometime Friday night.

Inkwell Beach in Oak Bluffs has been closed to swimming after water tests showed unacceptable levels of bacteria.

Signs have been posted to warn bathers of the bacteria.

David Caron, chairman of the Oak Bluffs board of health, reported that water samples taken Monday had come back with an enterococci count of 159 parts per milliliter; the maximum acceptable is 100.