Mark Alan Lovewell
The Hillside Village community center is the last place one would think of going to sit in a dentist chair. But recently, the community center, a living room and kitchen were turned over to Dr. Ghassan Khoury, 43, a dentist from Lexington with a growing following. To his friends, to his patients, he is Dr. Gus.
A large anchor, possibly dating back to the 19th century, was pulled out of the outer Edgartown harbor late Tuesday afternoon. Donald Benefit, an Edgartown conch fisherman who found the anchor, raised it from the waters between the Edgartown and Cape Pogue Lighthouses. It was too heavy to lift out of the water, so he towed it to the town dock, where boat and anchor spent the night.
Heather Jardin has been diagnosed with cancer again, and her friends refuse to take a backseat in the effort to get her on the mend. Next Friday, May 14, the Portuguese American Club in Oak Bluffs will host a huge evening event of music and food.
They are calling it Help Heather Beat Cancer, and admission is $20. The band Mercy Beat run by Rick Padilla will play music. Special guests John O’Toole, Loira Burra and others will perform. All food will donated. There will be a silent auction. The event runs from 6 p.m. to midnight.
The rare right whales sighted last month off Block Island and off Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket have left — but their presence has brought about a shift in thinking in the scientific community.
Last weekend, only one right whale was spotted off the Rhode Island shoreline by the Coast Guard. It is believed the animals have moved to the waters off Chatham or Provincetown and into Cape Cod Bay.
Work continued between bad rain storms at Morning Glory Farm over the past two weeks. The setting of the timbers for the post and beam barn, the future home for the retail store, were almost complete when a fir tree was put on the top on Wednesday afternoon.
Jim Athearn of Morning Glory Farm said he has been thinking about the design for the store for 30 years. From a slight distance the structure looks a lot like two other wooden agricultural buildings in West Tisbury.
March was the wettest on record for Martha’s Vineyard since recording began in 1946.
The National Weather Service cooperative station in Edgartown recorded a total of 8.65 inches for the month. The last wettest March was is 1983, when the total was 8.22 inches.
Three weather systems collaborated to give New England one of the soggiest months on record: A high pressure system hovering over the North Atlantic, an active southern jet stream, and slow moving soaking weather systems moving in from the west.