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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martha’s Vineyard hosted a fund-raising breakfast Thursday morning, gathering together board members, current program participants and new volunteers at Farm Neck Golf Club for a hearty meal of scrambled eggs and sausage with a side of uplifting stories.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Information: 627-7084.
All meetings are nonsmoking.
Sunday, 6:45 a.m., open discussion meeting, First Baptist Church, William street, Vineyard Haven.
Sunday, 10 a.m., open discussion, State Beach, first bridge, Oak Bluffs, (weather permitting).
Sunday, 11 a.m., open discussion meeting at the Council on Aging on Wamsutta avenue in Oak Bluffs.
Sunday, 7 p.m., grapevine meeting at old Oak Bluffs School, School street, Oak Bluffs.
Michael Beauboeuf, grandson of lifelong Chappy resident Jerry Jeffers, will attend Harvard University in the fall.
Michael is a member of the Wampanoag tribe of Aquinnah and a senior at the Mystic Valley Regional Charter High School in Malden.
Edgartown leaders had no control over the paving project that caused a massive traffic backup on upper Main street last week, town administrator Pamela Dolby told the selectmen yesterday. In fact, no one in town even knew there would be a project until the police department received a call from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation the day before construction started.
Wearing a red T-shirt smeared with chunks of sandy clay, first-grader Elijah Dunn-Feiner stepped up on a stool mid-morning Saturday, the center of attention in a room full of clay-smeared adults, to lay the first handmade mud brick on the stick-and-stone skeleton of Flatbread Pizza Company’s new pizza oven in Edgartown.
By JIM HICKEY
A fast-moving, violent thunderstorm lashed the Island early Saturday morning, causing temporary flooding and traffic backups and setting off house and car alarms with deep thunder booms and bright lightning strikes, including one that hit the county communications center where the storm-related calls were pouring in.
A bolt of lightning is believed to have started a fire that destroyed a shed behind a home on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.