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St. Patrick’s 5K
The annual St. Patrick’s Day(ish) 5K road race and fitness walk, a benefit for the Martha’s Vineyard Boys’ and Girls’ Club, is Saturday, March 28, beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the Ocean View Restaurant and Tavern on Chapman avenue in Oak Bluffs. The 3.1-mile, USATF certified course loops around East Chop, promising scenic views for runners and walkers.
This year, race organizers have added a Fun Run for kids ages five to 12, starting at 10 a.m.
Martha’s Vineyard lobsters are scarce. More lobsters are landed by the Steamship Authority ferry Island Home from afar than by local lobstermen, and the prognosis is not good for the future for the whole region. From Chatham to as far south as North Carolina, the lobster fishery is in trouble.
The seafood consumer doesn’t have to worry. Lobsters are alive and well in local fish markets, because they come from up north.
The vernal equinox is tomorrow, but the sound of spring arrived early: Joyce Dresser of Oak Bluffs on March 16 was the first of many this week to report hearing pinkletinks. The weekend forecast calls for sun.
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has been identified as one of the most expensive in Massachusetts in data compiled by one of the state’s major health insurers.
The numbers, from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, given this week before the start of state hearings into the rising costs of health care, found the Vineyard Hospital ranked number five among 72 hospitals in the state. Nantucket Hospital which, like the Vineyard hospital, is part of the Partners Healthcare network, ranked third.
The tiny population of Cuttyhunk has won its David and Goliath battle with Comcast. The giant telecommunications company this week reversed its decision to pull the plug on the islanders’ do-it-yourself high speed Internet service.
Cuttyhunkers are expected to rejoin the modern world within the next week, as soon as Comcast can wrap up a formal vendor agreement with the man who had developed the island’s innovative wireless network over the past five years, Mark Storek.
Isabelly Arrives
Cleidiane de Souza and Luciano R. Santana of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Isabelly de Souza Santana, born on Match 12, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Isabelly weighed 5 pounds, 14.4 ounces at birth.