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After the long, cold winter we spent indoors, spring has arrived to push us outside to collect new green leaves and dig up fat roots. This is the time, according to tradition, for spring cleaning – and we don’t mean the house. We’re referring to an ancient folk belief about cleaning the blood, renewing the spirit, and energizing the body.
Clouds of bees bounce off a kitchen window in Chilmark. In Edgartown they cling together by the thousands and form a small pillow on the top of a house. This is bee swarming season, and apiarist Neil Flynn of West Tisbury has his hands full.
May and June are the busiest times for bees, according to Mr. Flynn. The flowers are in bloom and many bee colonies are on the move.
In July of 2007, 10 months after Tisbury police chief John Cashin had begun his job, the Tisbury selectmen received a letter from the mayor of Norwalk, Conn., where Mr. Cashin had been police chief for 25 years before moving to the Island.
The letter from the mayor was responding to scathing comments Mr. Cashin had made to The Hour, a Norwalk daily newspaper, about his former job.
The letter was brief but pointed, and followed an irate phone call to Thomas Pachico, then chairman of the town selectmen.
Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss announced on Friday the appointment of Susan Stevens as the new Chilmark head of school.
Currently a guidance counselor and special education coordinator at the Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Fla., a public magnet school, Mrs. Stevens has been a summer resident of Edgartown for 27 years. Her career in education began in 1976 and includes a wide array of teaching, from gifted to special needs, guidance and some administrative work. She has a sub-specialty in teaching children with autism.
The dream season for the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School girls’ lacrosse team came to an end on Friday in a 12-8 loss to Hingham in the Division 2 South quarterfinals of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament.
After defeating Oliver Ames on Wednesday, the Vineyard girls had advanced to the second round of the state tournament.
Elio Silva has no more regard for credit card companies than most of us — probably less, in fact. But unlike most people, he has a plan to do something about them, and all those other financial forces which conspire to eat away at our money, percentage point by percentage point.
The answer is to make our own. Literally. He has begun doing it, producing a new currency, he calls the Martha’s Vineyard Greenback.