News
Correction
A Nov. 16 story in the Gazette about the sale of Thimble Farm reported inaccurately on the farm’s status in 2000 after former owners Bencion and Patricia Moskow sold the development rights to the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank. The farm remained in continuous operation until it was sold to Lawrence Benson in 2002. The Gazette regrets the error.
The Yard, a performing artists’ dance colony in Chilmark, is among 54 charitable organizations newly listed in the 2007 Massachusetts Catalogue of Philanthropy, a publication mailed to the 120,000 wealthiest families in the state. The catalogue, published yearly since 1997, links charities and benefactors.
Island Woman Wins 5K
Amory Salem of Edgartown has won the women’s division of the annual Thanksgiving Day 5K in Oak Bluffs several times — but this is the first year she also out-ran the men as well to win. Congratulations.
Island residents, the Whiting family hopes, can have as much fun skating on Parsonage Pond as they have had watching the pond being dredged.
The social security numbers of state-licensed Island professionals, including realtors and medical professionals, have not been compromised and are safely back in Massachusetts state databases, a spokesman for the state division of professional licensure said this week.
Welcome Beckett
Heather and Josh Kochin of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Beckett Michael Kochin, born on Nov. 20 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Beckett is also welcomed by grandparents Chip and Michelle Leonardi and Jack and Christie Shea.