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Unusual sounds are coming out of the normally sedate Up-Island Senior Center at Howes House this Monday afternoon in May. Shortly after a barefoot man jumps out of a van to unload a set of conga drums, the rhythms from palms and sticks start to reverberate throughout the building.
The women of Martha’s Vineyard were ablaze with enthusiasm as they gathered at the Old Whaling Church on the night of Tuesday, May 19, to hear a talk entitled: Seven Secrets of a Woman on Fire.
The Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network year-end event welcomed life and executive coach Debbie Phillips to promote her national organization, Women on Fire, and to offer personal and career guidance to professional women of the Island.
Lighthouse Walk
The National Senior Health and Fitness Lighthouse Walk will be held this Wednesday, May 27, at 10 a.m. A nationwide event, the walk is meant to promote active and healthy lifestyles through physical fitness. Those interested may register with Cathryn at the Edgartown Council on Aging by calling 508-627-4368. Three routes of varying lengths are on offer, and participants can create their own pace and desired length of walking distance. The first 20 registrants will receive a free pedometer.
As a senior editor at Discover Magazine, science journalist Pamela Weintraub had covered myriad scientific dramas throughout her career. But it was her own family’s medical odyssey with Lyme disease — and the book she wrote about it, Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic — that brought her to speak on Monday to about 60 people on Martha’s Vineyard, where tick-borne illness is one of the most serious and prevalent health concerns.
Comsog Greenhouse Open
The COMSOG greenhouse lets all of us know that spring is finally here on the Vineyard! The Mother’s Day sale will continue for the whole month of May during the mornings. Stop in for lots of your gardening needs — lovely gift baskets, heirloom tomatoes, eggplants, annuals, pepper plants, herbs, flowering plants and much more. We’d love to help you to fill up your planters and/or window boxes. Come check us out.
The former Tuscany Inn in Edgartown sold for $2.7 million yesterday in a foreclosure auction at the historic property on North Water street.
An Island resident reportedly has bought the former inn, which currently houses l’etoile restaurant. The name of the new owner has not been disclosed. Michael Brisson, owner of l’etoile, said he does not expect the sale to affect his business. “For the foreseeable future l’etoile’s lease is secure and I look forward to working with the new owners,” Mr. Brisson said.