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Waters on the Lagoon Pond side of Eastville Beach are closed to swimming as of Friday morning, according to David Caron from the Oak Bluffs board of health. The beach near the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is used for clamming and occasionally for swimming, but test results for bacteria have come back slightly elevated, with a reading of 113 when the top of the acceptable range is 100. It will remain closed for the weekend; the town will retest on Monday.
All the main swimming beaches in Oak Bluffs are open to swimming, Mr. Caron said.
No good deed ever goes unpunished. And so, as Jules Feiffer told an overflow audience at the Katharine Cornell Theatre last Saturday night, after he wrote the screenplay for the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, his Hollywood career stalled for a decade or more.
Mr. Feiffer knew he was in trouble even before the movie came out. He recalled a couple of the comments made by the Hollywood heavy-hitter directors after they had seen a preview screening.
Former year-round resident Tom Murro was in the right place at the right time last year when he got to standing with Spike Lee on the filmmaker’s Farm Neck yard and President Obama showed up to shake his hand. Since then Mr. Murro, who lives in New Jersey, has begun a Web site, celebritymagnet.com (which reads in part, “Tom Murro was just an ordinary schmoe from Jersey with a job in banking, until the day he met President Barack Obama, and discovered that he had the power to attract celebrities like a magnet.”)
When a man called the Sweet Life Café to make a reservation for six people, explaining he was proposing to his girlfriend and both his and her parents would be there so he requested the back room, owner Susan Guerin knew something was up.
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School principal Stephen Nixon has announced the honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2009-2010 academic year.
Grade 12, high honors go to: Laiana Almeida, Marta Azzollini, Taylor Chisholm, Susannah Clancy, Alexandra Ferland, Matthew Fisher, Fillipi Gomes, Sarah Hall, Anna Hayes, Gail Herman, Shaelah Huntington, Dylan McCarthy, Sara Norman, Tessa Permar, Meghan Pettit, Hayley Pierce, Julie Pringle, Solvig Sayre and Heather Welch.
By PETER BRANNEN
This Saturday only a half-mile from Blue Heron Farm at the Grange Hall, comedian Scott Blakeman will be doling out policy advice for the President.