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Autumn Arrives
Jennifer and Chris Wiggin of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Autumn Rose Wiggin, born on Oct. 21 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Autumn weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces at birth.
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Aquinnah charter captain William (Buddy) Vanderhoop Jr. has heard plenty of Vineyard ghost stories. Most he doesn’t believe — but he is not without a belief in the supernatural. “There are spirits less harmful,” he said, “that are not spooky as most people would like.”
After 100 Island high school students called in sick on Wednesday — including 10 football players, 10 members of the boys’ soccer team, and the cheerleading coach — Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss confirmed that Saturday’s football game and the season’s final two boys’ soccer matches would be canceled.
The summer of 2009 will be remembered for primarily one thing: rain.
“Summer? It didn’t start until the first week of August,” said James H.K. Norton of Norton Farm in Vineyard Haven. “We had no sun for two months. We planted everything in a timely fashion, but nothing ripened because there wasn’t any sun.”
Island farmers, fishermen and sailors all were affected by the bad weather.