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Katerina and Karolina
Twin girls were born to Katerina Vlckova and Ales Fiedler of Vineyard Haven on Oct. 15 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Katerina Fiedlerova weighed 6 pounds four ounces at birth, while her sister Karolina weighed 5 pounds 11.2 ounces.
Announcing João
Rogelia Goncalves daSilva and Jonas dos Santos of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, João Victor Santos, born on Oct. 14, 2008 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. João weighed 9 pounds.
Former Vineyard resident, fine art photographer and educator Michael Zide has been asked to speak for Bogen Imaging at the Photo Plus Expo in New York city this October. The expo, held at the Javits Center, is the largest photographic event in the country. Mr. Zide will present his collection of black and white landscape images of Martha’s Vineyard, the West Coast and the Pioneer Valley during three presentations, Thursday Oct. 23 at 4 p.m., and Friday Oct. 24, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The title of the presentation is Musings and Metaphors.
The Bunch of Grapes Bookstore will reopen next month in temporary quarters on Church street, after Vineyard Haven resident Dawn Braasch yesterday closed a deal to buy the business from Jon Nelson.
Ms. Braasch has run a multimillion dollar trucking firm, started a successful catering company, taught preschool in Chilmark and South Carolina, and worked for a year as the events coordinator at the Bunch of Grapes before the Fourth of July fire devastated the building and closed the business.
Purchase price for the business has not been disclosed.
Health and human service agencies on the Vineyard are already feeling the effects of severe state budget cuts made last week by Gov. Deval Patrick and are bracing for more in the months ahead.
State funding to Family Planning of Martha’s Vineyard and Martha’s Vineyard Community Services was slashed in the cuts, while directors at the Island Health Care Rural Clinic in Edgartown and the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital were busy this week preparing for spending and hiring freezes.
Bend in the Road beach, one of the most popular bathing beaches in Edgartown, will soon grow in size, thanks to a dredging project nearly a mile away in Sengekontacket Pond. The $200,000 beach enhancement project with the Edgartown dredge is expected to take about 10 days to complete. Dredged sand will come from an area in front of Sarson’s Island near the American Legion Memorial Bridge, also called the Big Bridge.
Town harbor master Charlie Blair is heading up the project.