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Amos Arrives
Wenonah Madison-Sauer and Daniel Sauer of Aquinnah announce the birth of a son, Amos Taknash Sauer, born on Sept. 20, 2008 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Amos weighed 16 pounds, 14 ounces at birth.
Hello, Zebediah
Meeghan and Daniel Athearn of Chilmark announce the planned homebirth of their son, Zebediah Morrow Athearn, on Sept. 24, 2008, at home in Chilmark. Zeb weighed 9 pounds, and is welcomed by sister Clara Ann.
By many measures the Oak Bluffs elementary school is having an excellent year.
There are 410 pupils at the school, which is up seven on last year, an anomaly on an Island where enrollment is steadily shrinking. Nearly 50 students are there by school choice, that is, children whose parents have elected to send them to the Oak Bluffs School from other towns.
For the first time, state officials on Wednesday publicly unveiled plans for a permanent retractable bridge and its estimated price tag of $35 million, slated to replace the failing Lagoon Pond drawbridge in Vineyard Haven.
Wednesday’s presentation by project planners and officials from MassHighway offered the first look at plans and renderings for the new permanent bridge. The presentation included a PowerPoint display and a three-dimensional computer simulation program that showed the new bridge from all angles.
An overflow crowd came to the Agricultural Hall on Tuesday afternoon to celebrate and remember David Willey, the Vineyard Haven man and Cape Air pilot who died last Friday evening when his plane crashed near Nip ’n’ Tuck Farm in West Tisbury. He was 61.
The Vineyard’s three local banks remain confident of riding out the storm now buffeting world financial markets, thanks to conservative lending practices which largely avoided involvement in the subprime mortgage market.
However, the heads of all three banks this week expressed concern about the effects of the financial crisis on the broader Island economy, given its heavy reliance on seasonal residents and visitors, many of whom will likely have less to spend in the coming year.