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Don’t be fooled by the lush, new green grass at Veterans Park in Vineyard Haven. The park, the first place football was played on Martha’s Vineyard, is off-limits for football this season. It will be off-limits for soccer and softball games in the spring, too, and still for teams next summer. It’s “Keep off the grass” until next September.
Tisbury School has announced the first quarter honor roll for the academic year 2008-2009:
Fifth grade high honors go to Benjamin Davey, Olivia Jacobs, Nelly Katzman, Casey McAndrews and Dayanna Middleton. Fifth grade honors go to Matthew Barton, Noell Coburn, Yuri Da Silva, Edwin Gould-Hatt, Celena Guimaraes, Karem Guimaraes, Mya Houston, Jacob Janak, Jacob King, Evan Kristal, Jeremy Mercier, Ellie O’Callaghan, Maxwell Santos, Zachary Stevenson, Kayla Vecchia-Zeitz and Amber Willoughby.
Announcing Chloe
Kelly Silva Boccia and Jason Boccia of Milford announce the birth of their daughter, Chloe Emma Boccia. Chloe was born on Nov. 9 at Metrowest Medical Center in Framingham and weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces. Island grandparents are the late John B. Silva of Chappaquiddick and John A. and Kathleen A. Benoit of Edgartown and Breaux Bridge, La.
There will be little change in the tribal council makeup at the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) as a result of elections, held Sunday, in which three incumbents prevailed.
Richard Randolph will remain vice chairman of the tribal council, trouncing challenger Shelley Carter with approximately 70 per cent of the vote.
The Island construction industry has fallen off sharply in recent months, most indicators show, with a growing number of carpenters and tradesmen out of work.
Although contractors are reluctant to speak publicly about the problem, by most accounts the construction trades on the Island, which form a key segment of the Vineyard economy, are seeing the immediate effects of a deepening national recession.
Lumberyards report business is down and there are many reports of carpenters who are looking for work — with no success.
The Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust announced this week that it will buy and preserve the Norton property on the Edgartown harbor that includes the Osborn building, the oldest structure on the Edgartown waterfront.
The trust will buy the Dock street property owned by the Norton family which includes two buildings and a dock adjacent to Memorial Wharf. The boathouse was built after the 1944 hurricane. The Osborn building is much older and dates to the 1830s.