News
Congratualtions
Aaron Teves was this year’s recipient of the Dorothy Larkosh Roberts Award for Creative Thinking. The award was presented to Aaron during the Tisbury School awards ceremony held June 18, 2009.
On Saturday, June 27, members and guests of the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club celebrated their charming new building with an opening day party.
Events Aplenty Celebrate Della Hardman
The bottom has fallen out of the wholesale lobster market, which is bad news for the lobstermen and good news for consumers.
The price being paid to lobstermen at the dock is at a 20-year low, according to Bill Adler, the executive director of the Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association. He said the problem is tied to the economy and an oversupply of lobsters.
Gas
Prices for regular unleaded gas as of July 21:
Edgartown
Airport Mobil $3.169 Depot Corner $3.199
Edgartown Mobil $3.259
Oak Bluffs
deBettencourt’s $3.219
Jim’s $3.269
Vineyard Haven
Citgo $3.189
Tisbury Shell $3.199
West Tisbury
Up-Island Automotive $2.999
Menemsha
Menemsha Texaco $3.079
Massachusetts state average (source: AAA) $2.496
Grocery Basket
Edgartown Public Library children’s librarian Deborah MacInnis counts herself as an astronomy fan. On her desk is a color photograph of Comet Hale Bopp which she shot herself years ago. And she has fond memories of getting the late Edgartown resident Maxamina Mello up before dawn to see Halley’s Comet in 1986, knowing that the 85-year-old woman had seen it as a youngster 70 years before.
But it took much more than enthusiasm for Mrs. MacInnis to become the NASA-certified guardian of some bona fide moon rocks.