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Ava Arrives
Kathryn Shertzer and Joe Mikos of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Ava Elizabeth Oaks Mikos, born on July 17, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Ava weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces at birth.
Hello Katelyn
Margaret (Peggy) Chambers and Alex Tankersley of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Katelyn Margaret Tankersley, born on July 14, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Katelyn weighed 8 pounds at birth.
Savor the moment, Della Hardman used to say. Well, here’s a story about savoring the moment for Della Hardman Day 2009, which happens to be tomorrow.
“My father, who had a series of strokes, woke up for a moment on inauguration day, to say ‘I have lived to see this day,’” said Patricia Williams, whose father, incidentally, has rallied strongly under President Obama.
Plans were unveiled this week for a new leaching field near the wastewater treatment plant off Pennsylvania avenue in Oak Bluffs. Plans for the site, known as the Leonardo property, call for two open sand pits to be built approximately 160 feet wide by 160 feet long.
Drawn by environmental engineers Stearns and Wheleer, the plans show two separate leaching beds with a four-foot wide gravel walkway in between surrounded by a chain-link fence. Treated effluent would be pumped directly from the wastewater treatment plant.
With the necessary $6.9 million now in hand, the Martha’s Vineyard airport is ready to comply with an order of Congress to shift its runway 300 feet to the northeast.
More than 90 per cent of the funding comes from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Welcome, Mia
Francine and Jeffrey Agnoli of Edgartown are pleased to announce the birth of their granddaughter, Mia Grace Dunphy, on June 29 at South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, Mass.
Proud parents are Jona Dunphy, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, class of ’98, and her husband Thomas of East Bridgewater. Mia is welcomed by her loving big sisters Ava and McKenzie, and by paternal grandparents, Dianne and Tom Dunphy of Pembroke.