News
Screenplay Contest
Dick Upson, a longtime Chilmark summer resident as well as a former Vineyard radio personality on WVOI-FM, just won the 2007 Horror Screenplay Competition’s Grand Prize from the Rhode Island International Film Festival for a horror film that is set on the Vineyard.
Mr. Upson is a professor of communications at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I.
Museum Winter Hours
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum announces expanded hours for December: the gift shop of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum and the Pease House galleries will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, from now through Dec. 22. The shop will be on open on Saturday, when from 2 to 4 p.m. shoppers can choose jewelry of gold, silver, handcrafted, retro and of questionable taste.
Welcome Maverick
Karen Ann Casper and Pieter Pil of Vineyard Haven announce the birth of a son, Maverick Christopher Robert Gedeon Pil, born on Nov. 28 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces at birth.
Courtney Sullivan and David Luce of Edgartown announce the birth of a daughter, Jayden Marie Luce, born on Nov. 28 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces at birth.
Bankers are supposed to be flinty eyed. Evidently, Paul J. Watts didn’t get the memo.
Aline Pereira Leite has been lucky since she left Brazil 27 months ago to work on Martha’s Vineyard, and she knows it.
This pretty, softly spoken, 23-year-old woman is sitting in the living room of a sumptuous Island home. The view through the floor-to-ceiling windows is spectacular: snow-dusted trees down to the shore of Lake Tashmoo and, beyond it, Vineyard Sound. It is a glorious sunny morning.