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Are your pumpkins starting to shrivel into something scarier than sugared-up kids at Halloween? Then it’s just in time for the Islandwide Feed a Pig a Pumpkin Day tomorrow.
On Saturday, Nov. 8, recycle your out-of-date jack’o’lanterns from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the following farmers: Allen Farm in Chilmark, Farm Institute in Edgartown, Native Earth Teaching Farm in Chilmark and at SBS, for the Thompson family farm, in Vineyard Haven.
Turkey Serve
Registration for the Turkey Open tennis tournament at the Vineyard Tennis Center is open from now until Nov. 10 at 5 p.m. The cost of registration is a donation to the Island Food Pantry. For details call 508-696-8000.
The Vineyard Committee on Hunger is looking for sponsors to help Island families in need have a great Thanksgiving meal. Sponsors are asked to contribute $25, the cost of one family’s meal. Last year’s program was able to provide over 120 meals for each of the Thanksgiving and December holidays.
Many Islanders are unaware that Helen Keller often visited Martha’s Vineyard decades ago as the guest of Katharine Cornell. She stayed at Chip Chop on Tashmoo, where, according to a 1968 letter written to former Gazette editor Henry Beetle Hough by Ms. Keller’s nurse-companion Winifred Corbally, she “loved to bathe in the ‘sea.’”
Tim Madden of Nantucket won the hotly contested race for Cape and Islands state representative Tuesday, beating out three other opponents including Dan Larkosh, a West Tisbury attorney who fought hard for the post. At 11 p.m., after a historic Presidential election that saw an extremely high turnout across across the Island, Mr. Madden emerged a clear winner with a total of 9,521 votes district-wide.
Mr. Larkosh carried Falmouth and five of six Vineyard towns (Mr. Madden won Chilmark) with a total of 7,486 votes, but Nantucket, which backed Mr.
Voter turnout was heavy on the Vineyard throughout the day Tuesday, especially in West Tisbury where there were long lines at the polls from 7 a.m. on. The weather was mild and spring-like with scallopers and quahauggers out on flat-calm ponds around the Island. Town clerks manned the polls from Aquinnah to Chilmark, assisted by teams of volunteers.
Read the Friday Gazette for complete coverage of the election. News of local races will be posted as it comes available.