Heather Curtis

Vineyard Haven Library Series Shows Many Ways to Save Energy

Heather Curtis |

Going green has become a passion for Betty Burton, the adult programming coordinator at the Vineyard Haven Library. When asked where her interest came from Ms. Burton laughed, saying, “I was a child of the 70s, first of all.” She started composting when her children were growing up. Now she and her family have given up meat in favor of living on locally-grown produce, including foods from her own backyard. “It’s very important to me. We have a very small house. We grow our own vegetables,” Ms. Burton said.

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Vineyard Haven Library Series Shows Many Ways to Save Energy

Heather Curtis

Going green has become a passion for Betty Burton, the adult programming coordinator at the Vineyard Haven Library. When asked where her interest came from Ms. Burton laughed, saying, “I was a child of the 70s, first of all.” She started composting when her children were growing up. Now she and her family have given up meat in favor of living on locally-grown produce, including foods from her own backyard. “It’s very important to me. We have a very small house. We grow our own vegetables,” Ms. Burton said.

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Soirées Seek Solvent Recycling Machine for Island Auto Shop

Heather Curtis

They are proud to be a vehicle-free Vineyard household: instead of using a car to get around the Island, Rebekah Blu and her husband Adam Thibodeau — owners of the Midnight Mermaid gallery in Edgartown — bike, walk and take the Vineyard Transportation Authority. So when regular summer visitor Deidre Moncy and her boyfriend Dennis Mount approached the couple wanting to use the gallery to host a fundraiser for the the Clean Planet Fund’s auto program, they thought they were just the right people to do it.

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Carol

Festival Helps Authors, Artisans Affected by Fire, Slow Economy

Heather Curtis

All weekend, shoppers milled where fairgoers had the weekend before, this time slipping freely inside the Agricultural Hall grounds to admire everything from photographs to pottery, hand-spun scarves to hand-carved walking sticks, at the annual Labor Day Vineyard Artisans Festival. The artists behind this wide variety experienced varied success selling, too, in what most agreed was a tough economic environment for specialty wares.

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Liam Madden

Soldier, Summer Visitor Stuns Crowd At Iraq Veterans Against the War Event

Heather Curtis

The cost of war can’t be measured solely in dollars and cents, nor only in lives lost. These numbers don’t tell the whole story because they don’t reflect another cost, the emotional scars war leaves behind. And often these scars are never truly revealed, and the stories behind them are left untold. This was not the case last Wednesday, when an attentive audience at the Katharine Cornell Theatre listened as a veteran of the Iraq war offer a chilling, impromptu account of his experiences.

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David

Islander Rocks the Vote on Film Stock

Heather Curtis

“Vote or Die!” was the message rapper Puff Daddy delivered during the 2004 presidential elections as he and other celebrities banded together to motivate the youth of America to vote. After extensive media campaigns, nearly half of 18 to 24-year-olds turned out at the polls. This marked an 11 per cent increase from the 2000 election and the highest youth turnout since 1992.

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