News
Skies were blue this week in Edgartown, where, despite an unusually high number of vacant storefronts, empty sidewalks and available parking places on every block, two of the Island’s major commercial landlords were among those forecasting a bright summer season for business.
A sharply divided Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted last Thursday to hold another round of review for several proposed changes to the new YMCA building off Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, including a new walking bridge, outside basketball court, covered pavilion and temporary irrigation system.
Among the little group which toured Martha’s Vineyard’s new hospital on Tuesday, Gladys Welch, recently retried after 59 years as a nurse in the old hospital, and the older hospital before it, was bound to have had the sharpest sense of how much things have changed.
Calling it a “complete break” with the past, Island Affordable Housing Fund executive director T. Ewell Hopkins this week revealed sweeping changes for the organization, from enormous board turnover, to the abandonment of its gala summer fund-raising events, to a refusal to take on new debt or break ground on projects without substantial money in the bank.
Hello Mayssa
Janaina Da Silva and Francismar Dias of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a daughter, Mayssa Curty Da Silva Dias, born on March 10, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Mayssa weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces at birth.
Hello, Hunter Maxwell
Charlene and Larry Weiss of West Tisbury and Lexington, proudly announce the birth of their son, Hunter Maxwell Weiss, on Feb. 12, 2010. Hunter weighed in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces at birth and measured 20 inches. He joins big brother, Tanner.