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Is it a piece of Mertie B. Crowley?What may be part of an old shipwreck
was found at South beach.
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The police officers’ prayer Chaplain David Berube offers his colleagues at the Oak Bluffs police department begins with the words: “Lord, I ask for courage . . . courage to take me where others will not go.”
Vineyard WeekFriday, March 12, 2010
Acrylics for Beginners with Kenneth Vincent is from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Featherstone. Cost is $30. Pre-register by calling 508-693-1850.
Watercolor and More! for ages three to six with Lani Carney is from 2 to 4 p.m. at Featherstone. Cost is $30. For details, call 508-693-1850.
Scrapbook Basics for children ages 7 to 11 with Eniko DeLisle is from 3 to 5 p.m. at Featherstone. Cost is $30. For details or to preregister, call 508-693-1850.
Salsa with Saskia begins with a ladies' styling class at 6 p.m., beginners at 7 p.m. and intermediate dancers at 8 p.m. at the Camp Jabberwocky studio in Vineyard Haven, Greenwood avenue extension. Cost is on a sliding scale, from $7.50 to $12.50 per lesson.
Free Community Yoga is at the Yoga Barn on South Road, just over the Chilmark town line, at 6 p.m. For details, call 508-645-9642.
One Act Play Festival is at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven at 7:30 p.m. Presented by the Island Theatre Workshop. Cost is $15. For details, call 508-627-3166.
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Housing Fund Cutbacks BeginNew director says the nonprofit was living too richly; he has cut staff and plans to host another public forum
If you call the office of the Island Affordable Housing Fund these days, you don’t get a secretary answering. You get Ewell Hopkins himself, executive director, chief cook and bottle washer...
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Shiver Me Timbers: Old Wreck Exposed
The remnants of a shipwreck turned up on South Beach near Wasque last weekend, following a series of winter storms that have pounded and eaten away the south-facing shoreline of the Vineyard in recent weeks...
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Tribe Spurns Offer From Cape Wind To Pay $1 MillionMartha’s Vineyard’s Indian tribe rejected a $1 million inducement to drop its objections to the proposed Cape Wind development in Nantucket Sound, in the interest of preserving a cultural tradition which some tribal members deny even exists...
By MIKE SECCOMBE -
Fishermen Persuade Selectmen to Abandon Insurance DecreeUnder pressure from a vocal group of fishermen, the Chilmark selectmen this week reversed a recent decision to require Menemsha leaseholders to carry extra liability insurance at their own expense...
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Festival Finds Itself Sitting Pretty on Chilmark Sofas at Ten Years
It took the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival about three years to get into the casual character it has enjoyed for the past seven. In the first year, a black and white printout distributed the day before the Grange Hall screenings announced a one-day program consisting of a collection of shorts, a few features and some ethnic food. The next year, a move to the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven eliminated the food; eating wasn’t allowed at the site, so the festival moved again...
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Prophet of Doom Finds Joy as Film Stirs Efforts to Survive Oil Crisis
Think of humanity as a herd of caribou living on an arctic island with no predators and abundant sustenance. We reproduce wildly until inevitably the sustenance, the energy source, is overtaxed and collapses...
By MIKE SECCOMBE
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