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Fund Set Up After Fire
An account has been set up at Bank of Martha’s Vineyard (Sovereign Bank) for the Moreis Burney Yazinsky family, one of the families displaced by the fire that occurred on Nov. 2 at Fisher Road town house apartments in Edgartown. The family, with three small children, is still in temporary housing.
Donations may be made at any branch or mailed to Bank of Martha’s Vineyard, P.O. Box 2151, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568.
Go Slow at Détente
Lovebird on the Loose
At the same time many Vineyard businesses are succumbing to the recession and closing their doors, the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard in Edgartown is taking in more money than it is spending, allowing it to expand hours and raising hopes it will continue to operate through next year and beyond.
“It’s a Vineyard success story, and there aren’t a lot of those right now,” said Dukes County manager Russell Smith, who oversees the shelter’s finances. “Things are going better than we hoped.”
Sometimes it takes a village, not only to raise a child, but to keep that child going through adulthood and beyond. That’s the idea behind Vineyard Village at Home — a program that connects elderly Vineyarders with a network of service providers who help ease the challenge of living independently on the Island.
American Tower Corporation, the company that wants to build a distributed antenna system (DAS) to improve cell phone coverage in the three up-Island towns, is close to filing formal plans with West Tisbury.
The company has scheduled a pre-application meeting with the town zoning board of appeals, in accordance with the town cell tower bylaw. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the town hall.