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The folks responsible for the musical Witness Uganda were seated in a circle of folding chairs in a large mirrored Vineyard Arts Project studio Tuesday afternoon, taking a needed break from their rehearsal schedule to talk about the origins of their project. Writer and director team Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews offered tales of their travels to Africa, shared stories of the Ugandan university students around whom the script is based, and introduced two of their star actors, Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson.
For one month every four years, much of the world speaks the same language: Soccer (or football in its non-American dialects).
For one month every four years, much of the world speaks the same language: Soccer (or football in its non-American dialects). It’s a language of footwork, free kicks, and yes, flops, and on Saturday, June 26, native speakers and new learners alike have gathered at Coop de Ville in Oak Bluffs to watch what Sam Dean-Lee of Hartford, Conn., deems “the biggest game in U.S.
Liam Arrives
Shawna Medeiros and John O’Donnell of Oak Bluffs anounce the birth of a son, Liam Sean O’Donnell, on June 30 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Liam weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at birth.
Please Adopt Us
By MEGAN DOOLEY
In its final meeting for the 2010 school year, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee put its year-end financial house in order, and thanked the district’s financial team for working diligently to tackle the many roadblocks encountered throughout the school year, including cuts in state funding that led to hefty budget deficits.
As the nearly 800 members of Vineyard Power — the Island’s nascent energy cooperative — vote on their future, at least 12.5 per cent of them need to actually show up in person to legally do so as a quorum. Members who attended Wednesday night’s meeting to vote on rather mundane bylaw changes were disappointed to find that there were not enough in attendance to do so.
One audience member blamed the poor attendance on the lack of urgency in the cooperative’s electronic bulletin.