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Kindergarten In Primary Colors on First Day
By C.K. WOLFSON
The real world has summoned. Parents, properly awed, understand that the occasion is momentous, and are freeze-frame struck by the sudden awareness of time having passed. Cautiously they enter room 119 at the Edgartown School, their children clinging to them like velcro.
A high-priced real estate market coupled with changes in the way property assessments are calculated has fueled a sharp rise in the value of waterview and waterfront property in Edgartown this year.
The start of the 59th annual Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby may be only two days away, but the planning and preparation go back
Like cracking open a pack of new pencils with the eraser tops still bright pink, the Vineyard school year starts Thursday with a fresh cast - a new bus company, four new administrators and more than a dozen teachers newly hired into Island classrooms.
The mood was jovial at derby headquarters in Edgartown Sunday morning.
Richard Reston, president of the board of directors at the Vineyard Gazette, has announced changes in the editor and publisher positions at the newspaper. Mr. Reston, a longtime editor and publisher of the Gazette, will resume his role as newspaper publisher.
Julia Wells, who has been the lead writer on the paper for 20 years and a resident of the Vineyard for 30 years, takes over as the new editor of the Vineyard Gazette.
The change in leadership at the newspaper is effective immediately.