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Appearing before the Tisbury selectmen this week, Oak Bluffs shellfish constable David Grunden said: “There are 52 towns in the state that have shellfish resources, and 52 different sets of regulations.”
That number may fall by one if efforts underway to coordinate the administration of Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs shellfish departments are successful.
Editor’s Note: The following is an edited excerpt of an interview done in 2004 by Linsey Lee with Leona Coleman Flu, the daughter of the first black stage manager in the Boston theatre district. A summer resident of Oak Bluffs from childhood on, Mrs. Coleman now lives in Atlanta, Ga. The interview is published in Ms. Lee’s book More Vineyard Voices; it appears here with permission from the author, who heads the Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s oral history center.
It’s daffodil time again.
The next two weeks will be the last opportunity for presale orders of the American Cancer Society’s daffodils, bouquets of 10 buds that open into huge yellow blossoms. Volunteers have reached workers in schools, banks, hotels, offices, town halls and stores throughout the Island and will return the last week to pick up their orders.
Are there any guardian angels out there who would love to adopt a beautiful sweet tabby cat, who although she has tested FIV positive, is otherwise healthy and very loving? Her name is Miss Misty and she is spayed, has had all her shots and been thoroughly checked by a veterinarian. For safety sake she needs to be in a home without any other animals and needs to be an indoor cat. Please come and see her — she is a love.
Maycon Arrives
Maria De Lurdes Raspante and Adriano Silva of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Maycon Moreira Raspante, on Feb. 17 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Maycon weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces at birth.
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