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Olivia Arrives
Kate and Benjamin McCormick of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Olivia Marie McCormick, on April 18 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Olivia weighed 8 pounds, 10 ounces at birth; she joins her sister Hannah Lee.
Welcome Jose
Kamilla Santana and Tiago Mendes of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Jose Neto Mendes, on April 7 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Jose weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces at birth and joins his big brother,Thiago Fillio Mendes.
More than $20 million was raised for the campaign against Cape Wind before Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the wind farm project last week.
And it has all been spent, as Audra Parker, the president and chief executive officer of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, told people this week while doing the rounds on the Vineyard trying to persuade them to dip into their pockets to fund legal action against the federal government.
Four months ago 22-year-old Anthony Sullo, a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, had just returned to the Vineyard after a four-year tour of duty, during which he served as an infantryman and team leader in several different countries, including Afghanistan and Iraq, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Tisbury selectmen are expected to finalize regulations for the sale of beer and wine, and also to set a date for a special town meeting when they meet next Tuesday.
If all goes according to plan, town restaurant owners will be able to apply from next Wednesday to have their establishments licensed. And voters will meet, probably on June 29, to reconsider a proposal to pay $225,000 in extra wages to the Tisbury police.
The rare right whales sighted last month off Block Island and off Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket have left — but their presence has brought about a shift in thinking in the scientific community.
Last weekend, only one right whale was spotted off the Rhode Island shoreline by the Coast Guard. It is believed the animals have moved to the waters off Chatham or Provincetown and into Cape Cod Bay.