Community
The Pit Stop in Oak Bluffs is a great place for listening to music and Saturday, Sept. 15, Marc-Alan Burnette with Kiley Evans and Dawn Kenney (soon to play Carnegie Hall), hit the stage. What makes this evening different, though, is that on the same day, Mr. Burnette will be giving a songwriting workshop at 279 Pond Road (Deep Bottom Pond), West Tisbury.
Mr. Burnette calls the workshop Bridge Building, New England to Nashville. A resident of the music capital of Tennessee, he has written hits for Shelby Lynne, David Ball and John Berry.
The Oak Bluffs Community Preservation Committee is hosting an Island-wide meeting with Stuart Saginor of the Community Preservation Coalition on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Sailing Camp, located on Barnes Road in Oak Bluffs.
Mr. Saginor will present the latest news about the Community Preservation Act, including a review of the new CPA legislation, as well as projections on the CPA Trust Fund and projects around the state.
With another step completed toward restoring on-Island health care access for veterans, members of the Providence VA hospital are planning an on-Island trip for early October for a town hall meeting with veterans and discussions with Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
This week came word that the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital had signed a new contract for veterans’ health care; the last remaining step is contract approval from the Providence VA Medical Center.
West Tisbury library trustees asked the town selectmen this week for permission to cut down nearly 10 trees to make way for construction of the new library late this fall. The library also needs the money to take the trees down.On Wednesday trustee Linda Hearn asked the selectmen to put an article on the Nov. 13 special town meeting warrant asking for $6,000 for the tree removal. There are four large trees adjacent to the parking lot, two at the rear of Howes House, several small trees around the property and a large maple at the entrance to the parking lot, which Polly Hill Arboretum executive director Tim Boland called “diseased and dangerous,” according to Mrs. Hearn.
The Rev. Canon Edward Rodman, John Seeley Stone professor of pastoral theology and urban ministry at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, will lead services this Sunday at Trinity Church in Ocean Park. A well-known advocate for reform of the country’s legal, housing and education systems, the subject of Rev. Rodman’s sermon will be The Road From Charity to Justice.
In the night skies over the Vineyard, one can see the moon and planets move through the Milky Way. On one night, a man turns his telescope and scans beyond the Milky Way to a sister galaxy. He is Andrew A. Heyward, an avid amateur astronomer, but he is also a well-respected children’s cartoon writer, editor and top executive for an animation company in Hollywood.