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An Edgartown bird has tested positive for West Nile virus in the first such case confirmed this year on the Vineyard.
A crow was discovered by a hotel restaurant worker and shipped to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health by Edgartown health agent Matt Poole.
Reached by phone yesterday, Mr. Poole said the worker spotted the crow corpse under a tree near the intersection of Main and Winter streets in downtown Edgartown. Mr. Poole said the discovery is confirmation of what is already assumed: that the virus exists on the Vineyard.
With the fall fishing season about to begin, there is a renewed warning out to shore fishermen to be careful not to litter the landscape. Spent fish line left on the ground can be a killer to wildlife.
In July an osprey chick was killed when it got entangled in a monofilament fish line.
Air Force airman Shane M. Medeiros has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tex.
During six weeks of training, he studied the Air Force mission, organization and military customs and courtesies, performed drill and ceremony marches and received physical training, rifle marksmanship, field training exercises and special training in human relations.
In addition, airmen who complete basic training earn credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.
All weekend, shoppers milled where fairgoers had the weekend before, this time slipping freely inside the Agricultural Hall grounds to admire everything from photographs to pottery, hand-spun scarves to hand-carved walking sticks, at the annual Labor Day Vineyard Artisans Festival. The artists behind this wide variety experienced varied success selling, too, in what most agreed was a tough economic environment for specialty wares.
The cost of war can’t be measured solely in dollars and cents, nor only in lives lost. These numbers don’t tell the whole story because they don’t reflect another cost, the emotional scars war leaves behind. And often these scars are never truly revealed, and the stories behind them are left untold. This was not the case last Wednesday, when an attentive audience at the Katharine Cornell Theatre listened as a veteran of the Iraq war offer a chilling, impromptu account of his experiences.
Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is pleased to announce that it has welcomed four new directors to its board and has elected new officers. At the foundation’s annual meeting on August 15, Emily Bramhall of Chilmark was elected president. A longtime board member, Ms. Bramhall had previously served as vice president and treasurer. Former president Steve Crampton was elected vice president, while John Schaefer was reelected treasurer and Ally Moore was elected clerk and assistant treasurer.