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FARM Institute Launches
Winter Programs for 2008
Winter 2008 youth programs are scheduled to begin at the FARM Insitute in Katama starting Jan. 4.
Parsonage Construction
The Vineyard Assembly of God Church on 1048 State Road in Vineyard Haven across from the Scottish Bake House is building a parsonage and rectory for the pastors.
Most of the labor is volunteer. Work times are Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. People needing a tax write-off for labor can receive one for hours worked. The church also encourages those who need community service hours to participate.
Duane Vought can be reached at 508-696-7576.
The holiday spirit was not in the air last weekend at the Eden Garden Center.
Tisbury police responded to a call Sunday morning from the Tea Lane Christmas Shoppe reporting a robbery. The store is located at the garden center at 259 State Road.
The call came at 10:40 a.m from an employee who arrived to work to find the padlock from the front door removed, the entire cash register and its contents gone and a donation box for the Red Stocking Fund missing.
The Tabernacle cupola is undergoing the most significant restoration in more than a century. The $635,000 project will not only preserve the cupola for the years ahead, but restore its key purposes of ventilation and visual distinction.
For Russell E. Dagnall, president of the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, the work, called Topping off the Tabernacle, is but part of a much larger $3 million restoration of the Tabernacle that began almost 10 years ago.
Corrections
A story in the Dec. 14 edition of the Gazette misprinted the telephone number for community radio station 93.7 WVVY. The correct telephone number is 508-693-9379. The Gazette regrets the error.
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A photo caption accompanying last Friday’s Gazette feature on The Homecoming, currently on stage at the Vineyard Playhouse, identified the actor pictured as Daniel Cuff, who plays Clay-Boy. The photo was of Xavier Powers, who plays Birdshot Sprouse. The Gazette regrets the error.
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In an era when large swaths of pitch pines and scrub oak are routinely cleared to make way for new homes, it would be easy to think of the Vineyard as rapidly losing its woodland character.
In fact forest acreage on the Island has grown over the past 100 years as the Vineyard has shifted from an agricultural-based society of farmers and shepherds to a resort community of second homeowners and seasonal residents.
By some estimates, Island woodlands have increased 20-fold since the late 19th century.