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Youth Basketball
Martha’s Vineyard Youth Basketball is accepting registration online for the 2009 season at mvhoop.com. The deadline is Nov. 10. If you have any questions, call 508-693-5341.
An architect from Connecticut and a mailman from Westport were the top winners in this year’s 63rd annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby.
On Sunday, Paul C. Harris of Oak Bluffs and Weston, Conn., won a new black Chevrolet 4x4 pickup truck for a 10.75-pound bonito he caught while fishing with friends earlier this month.
Scott D. Tompkins of Westport won a 20-foot center console Eastern powerboat for a 40.12-pound striped bass he caught fishing alone on an Up-Island shore in the early evening of Oct. 1.
Walk to End Violence
Connect to End Violence is holding its first annual domestic and sexual violence awareness walk on Sunday, Oct. 26. Registration will begin at the Edgartown Park and Ride lot behind Edgartown Pizza at 9 a.m. The route is approximately two miles through downtown Edgartown. Registration costs $20 per adult; children under 14 are free. The first 100 walkers to arrive will receive a free T-shirt. For details call 508-693-7900, extension 221.
A stiff, chilly breeze and sunshine greeted the return of a peripatetic 1929 Oak Bluffs fire truck No. 2 last Saturday. With Donald Billings, 77, of Oak Bluffs behind the wheel, the truck rumbled off the ferry Nantucket into Vineyard Haven. Riding shotgun next to Mr. Billings was the Maxim truck’s former owner, Robert A. DiPoli of Medfield.
The truck had not been on the Island in over 50 years.
Welcome, Tanner
Leslie Myers and Tobias Myers of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Tanner Sheridan Myers, born on Oct. 16, 2008 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Tanner weighed 9 pounds, 9 ounces at birth. He joins big sister Lily May.
Martha’s Vineyard Museum executive director Keith Gorman recently received good news from the National Endowment for the Humanities — the museum has been awarded its second National Endowment for the Humanities grant this year, this one in support of the development of the theme and content in the museum’s future permanent exhibit in its future museum facility.