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Spring sports are in full swing at the regional high school, kicking off what promises to be a lively season of interscholastic athletics.
Women Empowered
Women Empowered invites the public to dine at the Mediterranean Restaurant in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, April 11, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mediterranean is graciously donating a very generous portion of the proceeds in support of Women Empowered. To make reservations, call 508-693-1617 and mention the Women Empowered dinner.
For the second time in six months, the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority has been unable to make its payments to landlords involved in its subsidized housing program.
But the executive director of the authority, David Vigneault, said yesterday he remained hopeful of making at least a partial payment within days.
In a press release late last Thursday, the due day for payment of some $20,000 to the owners of 35 properties, the authority said it had run out of money and could not make its April commitment.
In 2004, as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, summer Chilmarker Zachary Iscol was sent to fight in Al Anbar, the most violent province in all of Iraq. He was a young man full of idealism and naivete, with no idea what the war had in store for him. He learned soon enough,
In the face of town fines accruing at the rate of $300 a day, the Garde family of Tisbury has renewed its legal fight to keep its three delinquent husky dogs.
Last week the family patriarch, Kenneth C. Garde, filed a motion for a stay of execution against an order made by the Edgartown district court, requiring compliance with last October’s order of the Tisbury selectmen which banned the dogs from town for repeated escapes and poultry-killing incidents.
As home mortgage foreclosure notices began appearing, then multiplying, in the Vineyard newspapers, John Pearson grew concerned. When the notices began to include names he knew, including people who volunteered with him at Big Brothers/Big Sisters, he convened a group to take action.