News
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital ended its fiscal year with a sharp drop in operating profits, although with year-end gains well north of $600,000, the institution remains comfortably in the black, defying predictions early this year of an operating deficit.
And like virtually every person and institution with money invested in stocks and bonds this year, on paper the hospital lost an enormous amount of value — more than $3 million — on its protected endowment monies.
What’s yellow, on wheels, and found carting paying (and non-paying) passengers all over Oak Bluffs? The answer is a new, open-air way to tour the Island’s pastel-painted town or bar hop along Circuit avenue: Vineyard Pedicab.
Ravaging of the river herring population by midwater trawlers and an absence of round-the-clock environmental police protection were the hot topics at a meeting between Cape and Islands Rep. Tim Madden and members of the newly formed Martha’s Vineyard Dukes County Fishermen’s Association Friday.
Hello, Chandler
Heidi Savage Blau and J.B. Scott Blau of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Chandler Savage Blau, born on June 26, 2009, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Chandler weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth.
Dean’s List
Bridgewater State College has announced the spring dean’s list, which includes, from Chilmark, Michael Pachico, and from Vineyard Haven, Jai Berger, Colleen Campbell, Dawne Charters-Nelson and Matthew Montanile.
Full of zest, a group of sixth and seventh grade students from the Bronx, N.Y., took charge of Katama Farm early this week in the Farm Institute’s first-ever residential program.
Fifty-one Bronx Academy of Letters students arrived on the farm Monday for a three-day introduction to farming, gardening, cooking and livestock management.