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Divas Uncorked

The divas have done it again, divining a star-studded lineup — with master of wine Sandy Block, Barbecue University’s Steven Raichlen, and Top Chef contestant Ariane Duarte — for the fourth annual Divas Uncorked Wine and Food Festival on Martha’s Vineyard.

Festival events begin on Thursday, August 12 and continue through Sunday, August 15.

This year, the event will again provide fund-raising support for the Island Grown Initiative..

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The Vineyard has no fish weirs these days. The trapping technique, catching fish by way of corralling them against walls of branches, timber and spiles strewn with nets, is no longer used here.

On Wednesday afternoon, however, Jonathan James-Perry, 33, a storyteller and historian with the Aquinnah Cultural Center, gave a talk about the use of fish weirs by the Wampanoag Indians of this region. In a time when the ocean was bubbling with a lot more fish than are there now, a fish weir was an effective way to catch fish.

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More than four years after the new Martha’s Vineyard Hospital was required, as a condition of its expansion, to spend $2 million on community health programs, not one dollar has yet been spent on initiatives not directly connected to the hospital.

Under the terms of approval by the state Department of Public Health, the hospital was supposed to begin distributing the money in January 2006. The five-year timetable for the expenditure meant it all should have been distributed by January 2011.

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Dean’s List

Emily Reich, daughter of Bill Reich and Kathleen Cowley of Oak Bluffs, was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester 2010 at old Dominion University in Virgina. She is a tourism and recreation major in the college of education and is an athlete on the Monarch’s national ranked sailing team.

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Please Adopt Us

There is good news at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard: all five of the adorable kittens that were up for adoption last week have found homes, and the beautiful young orange tiger that was brought in as a stray a couple of weeks ago has found his owner who was so happy to be reunited with her pet.

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