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Four weeks after her younger sister was killed in a moped
accident in Oak Bluffs, Christina Dunnet Davis is vowing to join any
campaign that will rid the Vineyard of mopeds.
If there's a paradox in the Possible Dreams Auction, it's that the folks who run Martha's Vineyard Community Services count on the money it raises as a definite reality.
They need the funds, and over the past 22 years, this auction peddling wild and far-fetched dreams has anchored the development efforts at Community Services and enabled the agency to make daycare affordable to working Islanders and to offer counseling and substance abuse treatment to people with no insu
Ending months of speculation and more than a decade of bitter warring over development plans - both in and out of court - the 215-acre, ecologicall
Katharine Graham, 84, who led The Washington Post Co. to
prominence in the world of journalism and business and became
one of the most influential and admired women of her generation,
died Tuesday at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise,
Idaho.
Her death resulted from head injuries suffered when she fell on a concrete sidewalk last Saturday in Sun Valley, where she was attending an annual conference of top-level media executives.
During three decades at the helm of The Post, Mrs.
Fishermen, sightseers and friends filled the Menemsha docks on Wednesday when the fishing boat Quitsa Strider II came in. The word was out.
Just five days after a moped accident in Oak Bluffs killed a
Virginia woman, another accident yesterday in Edgartown has left
a 60-year-old moped rider from Florida in critical condition
with severe head injuries.