Sam Bungey
Patrick Manning has resigned as executive director of the Island Affordable Housing Fund effective Sept. 1, abruptly ending a stint of less than three years at the nonprofit.
The former politician made the announcement in a joint statement with the fund Wednesday, saying that family commitments require him to move back to New York state.
Mr. Manning spent more than a decade as a New York assemblyman and abandoned a campaign for governor of New York shortly before taking the job at the fund in January of 2007.
As entries pour in for the 148th annual Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair, poster competition winner Morgan Lucero is readying her autograph hand.
Ms. Lucero’s winning entry for the highly competitive contest is of a team of strapping oxen attached to a cart in the foreground of the agricultural hall.
“I was very excited, it felt like I’d won the lottery,” said Ms. Lucero yesterday, “It’s the little things in life, you know.”
Behind FEMA, there is LEMA. And behind the Local Emergency Management Agency for Oak Bluffs, there is Peter Martell who, on a recent afternoon, is at the desk of his gloomy office at the Wesley Hotel, facing the door and fielding phone calls.
The room is lined with disaster management literature, Steamship Authority deck plans, stacks of Island directories and maps of flood zones.
The White House announced on Wednesday that President Obama and his family will travel to the Vineyard for a week’s vacation from Sunday, August 23 until Sunday, August 30.
The announcement said the President plans no public events during his Vineyard stay, but that has not stopped the Vineyard public from getting ready for a circus when the Obamas visit.
Here’s an expression historian Patricia Sullivan has a problem with: post-racial.
“Post-racial is such an ahistorical term,” she argues one morning this week sitting at the window of a Vineyard Haven cafe.
“People don’t learn in school what this country is made from, and that’s fundamental to begin to have an intelligent discussion about what’s going on.”
The Dukes County sheriff’s department will come under control of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts starting in January 2010, according to state legislation awaiting the signature of Gov. Deval Patrick.
Backers of the legislation say the bill will improve a budgetary process which has left the state’s seven remaining sheriffs’ departments scrambling mid-year for additional state funding to cover costs.