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Announcing Kauan
Giscella and Diego Martins of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Kauan Nunes Martins, born on Dec. 12 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. He weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces at birth.
Oak Bluffs police received a call on New Year’s Day from a women who reported the unlikely combination of a fire and domestic violence at a residence on Beacon avenue.
But when police responded, they came across something entirely different. They eventually confiscated 70 pot plants while arresting a local man on charges of cultivating marijuana.
The Steamship Authority has ordered a replacement for one of the main generators on the ferry Island Home following a string of malfunctions which have disrupted service.
The ferry missed eight trips in December alone, according to the boat line. Through the month of November, 13 of its 3,146 scheduled trips had been cancelled — nine due to breakdowns and four due to bad weather.
Hello, Boden
Jennifer and Jackson Rouse of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Boden Mahapfey Rouse, born on Dec. 29 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Boden weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces at birth.
The war was not yet over, but the Germans were on the retreat and General George Patton’s 94th Infantry Division was marching towards the Rhine River. The changing tides brought hope to America, besieged by years of war and renewed the strength of Allied soldiers ready to return home. But for Edward Cowley Jr. — Eddie Jr. to his parents and little sister back home in Buffalo, N.Y. — the impending victory meant one thing: a clean sheet of paper he could use to write his next letter.
Barack Obama and John McCain were the official winners of a scientifically bereft poll conducted Wednesday and Thursday among voters across the Vineyard. But as Iowa kicked off the 2008 primary elections last night, the informal going over of this Island’s body politic found a pulse palpitating in fits and starts.