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The Vineyard Haven Public Library begins a new evening movies series on Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. with the screwball comedy Bringing up Baby. starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.
It’s a whole new, clean green spin on trashy books: on Saturday, August 30, Island author Mathea Levine will sign copies of her new definitely not trashy book I’m Lucy: A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo at Riley’s Reads in Vineyard Haven — but kids will receive a 20 per cent discount on copies of the book if they bring three or more pieces of beach trash they’ve collected.
Verdi on Middle Road? You wouldn’t think anything almost subversively original in the arts could possibly be percolating up this country road. You think you might come upon a corn patch or a pen of prized goats, but not a synthesis of dance, theatre and opera combining Broadway actors, celebrated choreographers and, well, Verdi.
Island visitors and residents may have cut back on many extravagances as the economy slowed this summer season, but weddings were not on the list.
“The economy does not seem to be affecting the desire and the interest in destination weddings to Martha’s Vineyard,” said Sue Curley, event coordinator at Tilton Rentals, a company that rents everything from tents to forks for celebrations here.
Mary McConneloug, the Vineyard’s own Olympian who competed in the Beijing games last week, finished seventh in the women’s mountain bike cross-country course. The highest-ranked cross-country mountain biker in the nation and one of two women on the American team, Ms. McConnelaug was the top American finisher in her event, with a final time of 1:50:34 for a six-lap, 26.7-kilometer (16.6-mile) course. The cross-country race was Saturday. Sabine Spitz of Germany took first, with a time of 1:45:11. Ms. McConneloug, who is 37, lives in Chilmark with Michael Broderick.
The Edgartown town hall was closed Friday afternoon and through yesterday after carbon monoxide was detected in the building.
The town hall was promptly closed at 2 p.m. Friday after fire department chief Peter Shemeth discovered the noxious fumes. The building was ventilated over the weekend and remained closed yesterday to town employees, though no carbon monoxide showed up on tests Monday morning.
The leak of the poisonous, odorless gas was discovered on a fluke, town administrator Pamela Dolby said.