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On Wednesday morning, August 6, at 6 a.m. the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council invites the Island to gather at sunrise by the Gay Head Light atop the Aquinnah Cliffs.
This will be the group’s 31st consecutive remembrance of the August 6 atomic bombing in 1945. Each person will be given opportunity to offer a word, share a song, to pray and to be silent. The hope is that by recalling the horror of nuclear war, any war or violence those in attendance may become more fully committed to a peace founded on justice and sustained by good will.
Dean’s List
Three Vineyard residents were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester at Northeastern University in Boston.
They are Linda Cheng of Vineyard Haven, who is majoring in economics; Jenna Corey of Edgartown, who is majoring in criminal justice; and Hannah Van Osten of Oak Bluffs, who is majoring in behavioral neuroscience.
Welcome Maxwell
Randy and Julie Kann James of Maynard are the proud parents of Maxwell Christopher James, who was born May 15 at the Emerson Hospital in Concord. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 1/2 ounces. The maternal grandparents are David and Mary Kann of Vineyard Haven and David and Jean James of Lancaster. The maternal great-grandmother is Edith Kann of Peabody. Julie is a 1991 graduate of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Skip Petersen sat on the porch of the Midnight Mermaid Tuesday evening with a journal open in her lap. Apparently oblivious to the throng of people in thrift shop attire that surrounded her, she scrawled in the journal her thoughts and blessings to Darlene Kelly and Penny Townes, who were fired from their posts at the Edgartown Second Hand Store in mid July.
“It wasn’t just a store, it was a great pow-pow place,” Ms. Petersen wrote and later showed the reporter. “It will never be the same.”
Dean’s List
Two Vineyard students have been named to the dean’s list at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., for spring quarter 2008. They are Tara Reynolds of Edgartown, who is an illustration major, and Alice Hopkins of Vineyard Haven, who is an architecture major.
Dean’s List
Three Vineyard students were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2008 semester at Bridgewater State College. They are Jai L. Berger and Dawne M. Charters-Nelson of Vineyard Haven and Michael C. Pachico of Chilmark.