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From the Front Page What can one little person do? Charter School kindergarten teachers Mindy Brodsky and Laurie DiGiacomo have 14 youngsters ready to answer.
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Festival Films Offer Passport to the World
Next week, Islanders will have at their hands a passport which requires no proof of citizenship, no photographs and costs only ten dollars (seven for members of the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society). The third annual Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival begins Thursday with 30 films from around the globe, over 15 filmmakers and world music, food and drink to groove on. The festival promises to be tour de force of people, places and ideas - no passport necessary.
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Vineyard WeekMonday, September 8, 2008
Plein Air Painting
Plein Air Painting with Thaw Malin meets 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Feathertone in Oak Bluffs. Cost is $50 per class.Register at 508-693-1850.
Marine Discovery Tour
Marine Discovery Tour of Oak Bluffs Harbor with Felix Neck 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Also Thursdays. For ages 4 and up. Cost is $40, $30 for Mass Audubon members, $4 for children 8 and under. Registration required, call 508-627-4850.
Forming Paper
Forming Paper, a workshop with Sandy Bernat, is from 6 to 8 p.m. at Seastone Papers in West Tisbury. For details, call 508-693-5786.
Volunteer Night
Volunteer Night with the Family Network/Family Center at Martha's Vineyard Community Services off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road with Jeanine Fitzgerald from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. For details, call 508-693-7900 , extension 288.
Wheelthrowing
Wheelthrowing Class from 7 to 9 p.m. at Featherstone Center for the Arts. Cost is $30.
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School’s Back, With Pencils and Books, Trusting Looks the Lesson of the Day
Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School director Bob Moore had spent the past couple of weeks thinking about what he would say to inspire students on the first day of the new school year.
Then, yesterday morning, he found a nine-year-old student had said it better. So he read Susa Breese’s letter to the several hundred students, parents and faculty, who stood and sat around him...
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Home Port Purchase Sees a New Twist
Owners of Menemsha Inn Sign Backup Offer to Buy Landmark Restaurant; Decision Now Rests With Voters
With a town vote looming on whether to purchase the Home Port restaurant in Menemsha and turn it into municipal land, the long-running seafood restaurant closed its doors for the summer last Sunday, possibly never to reopen for business...
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Selectmen and Tribal Leaders Straighten MisunderstandingsBureaucratic black holes, poor communication and a lack of tact that borders on comedic are to blame for a series of recent misunderstandings between the Aquinnah town government and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)...
By SAM BUNGEY -
Camp Ground House Work Under Scrutiny
Town, Camp Meeting Officials Unclear About “Progressive Demolition” During Renovation Project
After speculation and rumors bubbled through the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association in Oak Bluffs all summer about renovation work on the historic cottage at 5 Pease avenue, the facts surrounding the construction project began to surface this week...
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Pint-Sized Pioneers Begin New Program For Growing Special Needs PopulationThe first day of kindergarten comes but once in a lifetime and yesterday, Joanie Creato’s son was ready for it. “He just kept saying, I’m going to kindergarten! I’m going to kindergarten,” the mother of two said yesterday morning. “He was very excited. I bawled my eyes out.”..
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Wet Sees Bloom Of Mushrooms Across Vineyard
Leprechauns couldn’t have had a better opportunity to sit on a mushroom this summer on the Vineyard. Mushrooms have appeared all over the Island, from Chappaquiddick to Aquinnah...
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
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Fair Winners
The Gazette will publish a list of all the winners at the 2008 Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair in the Tuesday edition. Take home an extra copy for your neighbor!
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