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Three Falmouth Academy students from Martha’s Vineyard have earned places in competitive, high school music festivals — the Senior Southeast District Music Festival, which will be January 9-10 at Brockton High School, and the Cape and Islands Music Festival to be held February at Barnstable High School.
Kimberly Watts Peaslee, PhD, has been awarded the $10,000 Donald W. Banner Corporate Intern Scholarship. The Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation awarded only two students in the country with this prestigious recognition. The presentation was made on Dec. 3, 2008, at a luncheon in Washington, D.C.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Watts of Tisbury. Her husband Clifford Peaslee accompanied his wife to the luncheon, held in her honor.
The couple currently resides in Concord, New Hampshire with their daughter, Natalie.
It is said that the concept of celebrating the New Year has existed for as long as earthly agriculture, as farmers were the first to notice and record the cyclical nature inherent in the procession of seasons.
About 4,000 years ago, the people of ancient Babylon welcomed the new year in what is now known as March, with an eleven-day festival during which class distinctions and social conventions were set aside for the sake of a really good party.
Some physicians, at a mid-point in their lives, might find an altruistic impulse, or if they’ve had the impulse all along, the need to express it more fully. So it is with Oak Bluffs obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Jason Lew, with his wife, Injy, and their three daughters, Olivia, 23, a Middlebury College graduate (who just completed Michigan field work in the Obama campaign), Isabelle, 21, a student at Wesleyan University, and Sophie, 17, a senior at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
The following students have made the honor roll at the Oak Bluffs School for the first trimester:
Sixth grade honors go to: Diamond Araujo; Mia Arenburg; Emily deBettencourt; Mariah Duarte; Nyssa Duarte; Ivy Fournier; Ryan Gonsalves; Yannick Gonsalves; Chad Guyther; Cal Howard; Emily Kleinhenz; Noah Keinhenz; Madeleine Moore; Kelsey Moreis; Austin Morley; Grace Oslyn; Sadie Parr; Charlotte Potter; Ellen Reagan; Peter Tennant; Cheyenne Tilton; and Jackson Yuen.
The plywood is up, the roof is ready for shingling. The new Oak Bluffs fire station which will house the old 1929 Maxim fire truck, Engine No. 2, is far from finished, though, and work continues in haste. It won’t just be a garage, it will be a firefighters’ museum.