News
A former Edgartown man charged 20 years ago in two separate incidents — for allegedly robbing Claudia’s jewelry store in Edgartown and an aggravated rape and burglary of a female victim, also in Edgartown — will appear in Dukes County Superior Court on Monday for a bail hearing during the fall court session.
As a nurse, Jean Hagerty Francis has accumulated over 40 years of memories associated with the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She remembers the early years in the 1960s when the hospital was a small but essential part of the Island community. It was a cottage hospital then and is a much bigger place now, with a new $50 million building under construction.
Mrs. Francis, who retired last month, began working at the hospital in 1964 at the age of 21.
Island Plan
Everyone in the Vineyard community is invited to take the Development and Growth Survey, a public opinion survey about how the Vineyard community should manage future development, to say what you think about the amount, location and rate of growth. The survey is part of efforts to develop an Island Plan. It also asks about various tools that could be used to make sure that new construction, renovation and rebuilding better respect the natural environment, fit into neighborhoods, and deal with affordability.
Mr. and Mrs. Rupert H. Robinson of Oak Bluffs celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Sept. 11, 2008. The former Eileen Walker Sibley of Edgartown and Rupert Henry Robinson of Worcester were married in the Edgartown Federated Church with a reception at the Harbor View Hotel.
An open house at their home on Sept. 13 was hosted by their four children; R. Dana Robinson of Manchester, Tenn., Jennifer Robinson of U.S. Virgin Islands, Betsy Wagoner of Hopkinton, Mass., and Anne Bena of Clifton Park, N.Y.
Students from University of Massachusetts Medical and Nursing School (Rural Health Rotation) will be surveying Islanders who attend the Friday Conversation meeting today, Oct. 3, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Oak Bluffs Senior Center. Their topic is the need for accident prevention plans for elders in a rural or Island setting. Their project is sponsored by the Elder Services Committee of the Dukes County Health Council. Bring your friends and neighbors.
Do you agree it’s time for a change? Have we had enough of the same old same old? We seem to have fallen into a rut over the past eight years. Many of us welcome a chance for change, a breath of fresh air, a new view of the world. Bring more people around to our way of thinking. Share our feelings with a larger segment of the population.
We want to do more than we’ve done in the past. We can do better. This is no time to sit on the sidelines. We need to walk side-by-side, shoulder-to-shoulder and show our solidarity for the cause.