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After five years of lawsuits, appeals and bitter contention, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to approve a plan for an addition to the Oak Bluffs home of Joseph Moujabber, closing at least one chapter in the prolonged saga over the three-storey garage built without a permit back in 2003.
The approved plan among other things calls for the garage — dubbed garage mahal by critics — to be torn down and replaced by a new addition on the rear of Mr. Moujabber’s existing home on Sea View avenue extension.
Welcome Jean
Caroline and Frank Flanders of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Jean Eleanor Flanders, on July 12 at Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Jean weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces at birth.
Eamonn Arrives
Nancy and Matthew Hawksbee of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Eamonn Martin Hawksbee, on July 9 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital.
Eamonn weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces at birth.
There is no state or federal grant money available to offset the damage wreaked by an Independence day fire which destroyed Café Moxie and decommissioned Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, according to state representative Eric T. Turkington who traveled to Vineyard Haven meet business owners and town leaders on Friday.
It was not so much a matter of life imitating art as of life contradicting art.
More than 30 years ago, when they were filming the movie Jaws on Martha’s Vineyard, a young Jonathan Searle played the part of a kid who scared people out of the water by using a fake fin to pretend to be a great white shark.
But just a few days ago the same Jonathan Searle played a different role. Not the guy who carries out the shark hoax, but the police officer who busts the guy who carried out the shark hoax.
Just picture a clear and sunny July afternoon at the ballpark on the Vineyard.
The home team is down in the bottom of the ninth when a lanky outfielder projected by many scouts to be a future major leaguer strides to the plate with a chance to win the game for the hometown nine.