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Lindsay Arrives
Sayonara and Leo De Oliveira of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a daughter, Lindsay Victoria De Oliveira, born on July 15, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Lindsay weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces at birth.
Please Adopt Us
A beautiful young unneutered male orange tiger cat was brought to the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday, July 21 — he was found wandering at night on the West Tisbury Road in Edgartown, not far from the golf course. If he is your cat, please call the Animal Shelter at 508-627-8662 — otherwise he will be put up for adoption when he is neutered. He’s very friendly and must belong to someone.
Welcome Suzannah
Naomi Dias and Billy Dias of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Suzannah Éowyn Marie Dias, born on July 16, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Suzannah weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces at birth and joins big sisters, Evelyn Joy and Penelope, and big brother, Théoden.
It was 175 years ago next month that six devout Edgartown Methodists decided to establish a summer religious community of their very own and selected the largest oak grove in New England, near Eastville, to be its site. Camp meetings that provided prayer, preaching, hymn-singing and repentance had come into vogue in America at the turn of the 19th century. In 1827, one had been established at West Chop in the community of Holmes Hole — today’s Vineyard Haven.
Six years after the conclusion of a Supreme Court case in which the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) battled with Aquinnah taxpayers and the town over sovereignty rights, a new battleground has potentially sprung up on a sandy path to the sea.
The tribe has blocked off access to the path which leads to Lobsterville Beach, and town leaders are up in arms about it.
The year was 1978, and Martha’s Vineyard confronted a big decision about its character. It could take a big step toward becoming part of generic America or fight to maintain its individuality.
A property had come up for sale on Vineyard Haven harbor, and the multi-national purveyor of junk food, McDonald’s, was lined up to build its 5,110th restaurant on it.