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Oak Bluffs Storytime
On June 24, the Oak Bluffs fire department attended a firefighter storytime at the Oak Bluffs public library. Firefighter Ray Moreis and paramedic Peter Tennant spoke to the preschool children about fire safety and showed the equipment that a firefighter wears. Later the children went out to the fire truck that was parked in front of the library. They asked questions about the truck and sat in the front seat and pretended they were firefighters.
A full year after the Fourth of July fire closed down Main street, Vineyard Haven, the sun, the crowds and the grand reopening of Bunch of Grapes Bookstore this weekend seemed to return a familiar summer life of leisure to the Island.
Kick Up Your Feet and Have a Great Fourth of July
Fourth of July? If you are a kid, all you need to know is they do toss candy in the parade through Edgartown, so bring a bag for your stash. If you have kids, you need to know that cars are a no-no after 3 p.m. in Edgartown, so take the bus or park at the Triangle or beyond.
Her camp is the longest running, volunteer-operated overnight camp in the United States for children and adults with disabilities. Helen Lamb founded Camp Jabberwocky over 50 years ago on an impulse to do something good, and she did it, as she does all things, in a way that was pragmatic, efficient and sustainable.
Ask Nobel prize winning economist Robert Solow why those of us who toil away diligently in the real economy should be required to come up with vast amounts of money to pay the gambling debts of Wall Street, and he begins his answer with what he calls the standard analogy.
“That is this: if your neighbor likes to smoke in bed and as a result sets his house on fire, it’s still in your interest to put out that fire, or else your own house will burn.”
Senior White House aides and Secret Service are now considering three Vineyard properties for a planned holiday by President Obama and his family next month.