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Menemsha Coast Guardsmen played a large role in a rescue attempt following a collision between a sailboat and power boat in Buzzards Bay on Friday that left an experienced sailor dead.
Coast Guard personnel aboard the Menemsha-based 25-foot rescue boat responded to a mayday call for help shortly after 1:45 p.m.
Senior chief Stephen Barr of the Menemsha Coast Guard station said the boat crew arrived on scene in less than 35 minutes and found another patrol boat already there.
Sailing Vessel Will Visit
Vineyard Haven Harbor
The Bermuda-based sail training vessel Spirit of Bermuda will grace Vineyard Haven harbor this coming weekend, Friday, July 25 to Sunday July 27.
The Spirit, part of a youth sailing program in Bermuda, is being welcomed by Sail Martha’s Vineyard, a sister organization here on the Vineyard. Two lucky Sail MV sailors will make the passage back to Bermuda as part of the crew.
Tisbury fire officials have determined that the devastating Independence Day fire that destroyed Café Moxie and badly damaged the Bunch of Grapes bookstore was accidental in nature and started inside a gas-fed water burner in the basement of the restaurant.
Assistant fire chief James Rogers, a state-certified fire investigator, said yesterday that the fire started in a gas-fired water heater in the basement of Café Moxie. Mr. Rogers said a work crew last Thursday used heavy equipment to dig out the cellar of the restaurant to better assess the damages.
It’s nowhere near Halloween, and yet 16 masks took shape in the Old Sculpin Gallery in Edgartown on Friday. Children’s art classes have been an integral part of this gallery since its inception in 1954. The Old Sculpin is a nonprofit organization maintained by Martha’s Vineyard Art Association Inc. The building, which originally housed the boat building shed for the late Manuel Swartz Roberts, was bought by the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust two years ago.
The gallery holds an array of art classes for children, teens and adults.
Broadway could take a page from the Camp Jabberwocky rehearsal schedule. In the past couple of weeks, amid horseback rides, a Mad Max sail and fishing on the Skipper with a special lookout for the 18-foot shark in our waters, on the nights of July 15 and 16, the 30 campers and 28 counselors mounted a singing and dancing extravaganza that would have made Busby Berkeley proud.
Welcome Grady
Julia Stunkel and Glenn Stalgren of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Grady Patrick Stalgren, on July 3 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Grady weighed 6 pounds at birth.