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M ost people are familiar with the adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Stick to what works. Don’t take unnecessary risks.
It’s a bit of advice that Nancy Shaw Cramer has chosen happily to ignore throughout her career.
Making choices and changes, even riskier ones, has been vital to Ms. Shaw Cramer’s success in the Island art world. It was on a bit of a providential whim that the former tapestry weaver decided to move to the Island in the first place, and to transform herself from artist to art proprietor.
Library Quest
A quest launching party will be held at the Chilmark Public Library on Saturday, June 27, from noon to 5 p.m. A quest is a treasure hunt designed to connect people with a place: its details, stories and history. The Library Quest and the Village Quest were done in collaboration with the Martha’s Vineyard Museum and the children of the Chilmark School to create the Quests. For details, call 508-645-3360.
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
Fishing boats are back out in Vineyard Sound, after what has been a long stretch of really bad weather, not just on the land, on the water.
The Menemsha fleet returned to fishing for fluke on Wednesday, after being kept shoreside since last weekend because of the wind.
“I haven’t fished for three days,” said Capt. Craig Coutinho of the Menemsha dragger Viking on Tuesday night. “The fluke fishing was going pretty good, before we got this.”
Island police had a busy weekend.
Oak Bluffs police responded to 72 calls for service from early Friday morning to late Sunday night and made six arrests.
Just after 7 p.m. on Friday, police responded to a report of a man on County Road seriously bleeding from the head. After speaking with the victim, police learned he had been hit in the head several times with a brick by a man who then fled the scene.
A displaced but friendly goose has become a frequent visitor to downtown Oak Bluffs in recent days, waddling up and down Circuit avenue and charming visitors, shopkeepers and year-round residents alike.
The goose spent much of Friday on Circuit avenue peeking in store windows and mingling with pedestrians, many of whom snapped pictures and walked alongside it.
The principles governing the management of affordable housing were the subject of a spirited debate in Chilmark last week.
On the table were deed riders for two affordable homesites in town and draft changes to guidelines submitted by the affordable housing committee.
At issue were two questions: Should Chilmark affordable housing lots stay in the family regardless of income, or stay affordable forever? And should developers who contribute affordable lots be allowed to decide who the lots go to?