News
Thirty years ago the town of Tisbury moved several departments into “temporary” accommodations, grandly called the town hall annex, opposite the elementary school on West Spring street. All this time later, they are still there.
Now, the town is looking to move them again, sometime around the end of this year, into alternative temporary accommodations, so the West Spring street site can be redeveloped into Tisbury’s new emergency services facility.
Hoping to guard against an outbreak or worse of the H1N1 virus among young people this winter, a group that includes town health agents, the Vineyard Nursing Association and school leaders is moving forward with a plan to vaccinate the Island student population against the virus known as swine flu.
Members of the group have been meeting weekly to finalize a plan to distribute vaccine to the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and the five Island elementary schools.
Gas
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of Aug. 26:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil $3.499 Depot Corner $3.399
Edgartown Mobil $3.459
Oak Bluffs
deBettencourt’s $3.459
Jim’s $3.479
Vineyard Haven
Citgo $3.459
Tisbury Shell $3.459
West Tisbury
Up-Island Automotive $3.279
Menemsha
Welcome Daniel
Maria Magdelena Luna Alvarez and Jose Daniel Zuniga Lopez of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Daniel Zuniga Luna, born on August 25, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Daniel weighed seven pounds at birth.
It’s unclear who, exactly, was the first to camp out in front of Deon’s Restaurant on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs early Tuesday evening, hoping to spot President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. And it wasn’t clear, even among those there, where the idea that the President was coming even started.
“The Secret Service was in there today,” said one onlooker, wearing a Bo-bama T-shirt, in honor of the First Dog.
Events and Secret Service agents conspired to keep President Obama largely distant from Islanders this week, though a few found themselves up close, or at least close enough to snap their own photos.
“It was a very close encounter,” said former year-round resident Tom Murro, who was visiting this week from his New Jersey home when he found himself shaking hands with Mr. Obama on Monday.