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Road Work
A 100-foot section of North Road in Chilmark will be under construction beginning at 8 a.m. tomorrow, leaving only one lane open to traffic.
The roadwork is expected to take about three hours to complete, and motorists should expect some delays. The section in need of repair is located across from Carroll Lane.
It’s been a long time coming for Morning Glory Farm to expand its farm stand. The farm has been overwhelmed in recent summers by the demand for the local produce they sell. This summer that problem may be averted. The new building has been open since Memorial Day weekend, and a formal grand opening was held on Saturday in the post and beam structure that looks like a miniature version of the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury.
The Farm Institute in Katama has named Jonathan Previant as its new executive director. He brings to the institute a strong business background combined with a lifelong interest in agriculture.
Mr. Previant, 63, spoke to the Gazette over the weekend as he was driving north from Miami, Vineyard-bound for a fresh start on the farm. “I’m pretty excited about the opportunity and anxious to get to the Vineyard and get started,” he said.
He begins work on July 1.
The game was in hand for coach J. Ernie Chaves’s Tigers team on Saturday during the Martha’s Vineyard Little League championship game at Veira Park in Oak Bluffs, when one of his players hit a line drive foul ball that sent him scurrying for cover as he stood on the third base line.
Oak Bluffs School principal Laury Binney announced suddenly over the weekend that he would resign his post, citing both personal and professional reasons.
Mr. Binney, who has been principal for 14 years, gave his resignation to Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss on Sunday. Mr. Weiss said yesterday that Mr. Binney intends to stay on the job until early fall, but the superintendent admitted that the news had somewhat blindsided him.
After 17 years serving in the U.S. Air Force, Special Agent Jason F. Canha has learned to take the good and the bad of military life. He has traveled around the globe, met lifelong friends and served in one of the most elite military police units in the world.
But Agent Canha, 37, who was born and raised in Oak Bluffs, has also had to endure long stretches away from his wife and two children, spent holidays with soldiers instead of family and passed along birthday wishes over the phone instead of in person.