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Announcing Ashley
Talita Destefani Silva and Wesley Destefani Silva of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a daughter, Ashley Rose Destefani Silva, born on May 17 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Ashley weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth.
Teen Tribal Dinner
The Wampanoag Youth Group will be sponsoring a spaghetti dinner today, Friday, May 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the tribal building at 20 Black Brook Road in Aquinnah.
There will be traditional song and dance with the Black Brook Singers and youth dancers. Vineyard businesses and artisans have donated gifts for a silent auction. The group will be selling their T-shirts and sweatshirts, among other items.
Edgartown library staffers were stepping over wet cement this week in an effort to ready the old Carnegie building on North Water street for its official reopening next Tuesday.
The sidewalk under repair is one thing that is not their problem — town highway superintendent Stuart Fuller is in charge of that project — but they have had their share of problems following last year’s furnace puffback incident. The building was closed in early December after a burst furnace covered much of the furniture, upholstery and stock in an oily vapor.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission last week again reviewed revised plans for the controversial three-story garage built along the North Bluff in Oak Bluffs in 2003 without a permit.
The story behind the three-story garage is by now familiar and dates back to November of 2003 when Mr. Moujabber received a town building permit to replace an existing small garage on his Sea View avenue extension property. In less than six months the project grew into a three-story building with multiple balconies, sliding glass doors and a roof deck.
April and May so far have brought the Island a mixed weather bag that has included blustery ocean storms, drizzly weekends and that relatively unusual Vineyard occurrence, springlike weather in the spring.
Winter on the Island generally tends to go right into summer. But this spring has pleasantly surprised Vineyarders with spates of mild, sunny days.
The organizer of the Monster Shark Tournament this week announced that he had withdrawn his application to use Washington Park as the headquarters for the three-day event and instead had set his sights on securing a private venue for the tournament’s opening and closing ceremonies.
Steven James, president of the Boston Big Game Fishing Club, told the Gazette this week he had withdrawn his application to put up a tent with capacity for 900 on Washington Park that would be used for the tournament’s Captain’s Banquet and closing ceremonies.