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Photo Credits
Three photographs that appeared in the Friday, August 6, Gazette with a story about the Witnesses to Hunger project failed to include credits. The first two photographs were taken by Erica Smalley, and the third was taken by Barbara Izquierdo.
“What are you ladies cooking up today?” Laura Raney, an employee at Eden Market, asks a pair of regular customers as she rings up their purchases on Monday afternoon. When they describe plans for concocting a steak and onion dinner — “similar to what we made last year,” they remind her — Laura advises them to consider adding cherry tomatoes to their recipe, pointing to where the tomatoes sit amidst the rows of fresh produce in Eden Market.
The Edgartown Library building design committee has been working since April to develop a new building plan for submission in early October to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. The committee has made several field trips to visit other new libraries in the region. Last week, the committee signed a contract with Pomroy Associates of South Easton to serve as the project manager.
Please Adopt Us
Two of our beautiful adult cats were adopted last week, but there are still more at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard who would make special pets for anyone. They are: Banjo, Cleo, Miss Misty, Cyrus, Gracie, Dolly, Binx and Phoebe.
Our two dogs are Katama, a boxer cross, and Ozzie, a small Mini-Pin cross.
A meeting between the town and tribe in Aquinnah has finally taken place, but no agreement has been reached on whether an access path to Lobsterville Beach, blocked off by the tribe last month with a rope barrier and a blockade of branches and brush, will be reopened.
In the past, staff at the Gosnold rehabilitation center on Cape Cod have seen Vineyard patients board the boat back to the Island and worried about their fragile state, knowing there was no day program for therapy and support. Now with the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services New Paths Recovery Program, all that has changed.