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The Island’s surviving home health care agency has a full plate.
The Vineyard Nursing Association is moving quickly to absorb a 50 per cent increase in patients and a 20 per cent increase in employees while expanding its services and stepping up professional training for its employees, said Robert Tonti, chief executive officer of the association.
And Mr. Tonti has started the process of finding larger space to accommodate the unexpected growth.
Holmes Hole Sailors Set
Summer Race Schedule
The Holmes Hole Sailing Association has announced its schedule of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven harbor for the summer season.
The association will be sponsoring a series of 24 races, in a variety of formats, beginning with a tune-up race in Vineyard or Nantucket Sound on June 15 and concluding with the annual George Moffett Memorial Race on Sept. 6.
One is a specialist in internal medicine and gastroenterology. The other is an internist by training who spent much of his career in emergency medicine. Both traded jobs at top hospitals in Boston for rural life on an Island off the coast of Cape Cod. They met many years later, at a walk-in clinic started in the 1980s by Dr. Michael Jacobs. They share a love of medicine and a commitment to practicing family medicine, much as country doctors did years ago, though now they give out their cell phone numbers instead of the number to a home telephone.
The Edgartown tennis courts will host an adult tennis camp to be held on June 21 and 22. The camp will feature instruction from local tennis professionals and will be held from 9 a.m. to noon both days. The cost is $99. All ability levels are welcome.
More information is available by calling 508-560-0525 or e-mailing [email protected].
In one of the more exciting high school games in recent memory, the girls’ varsity lacrosse team scored two goals in the final two minutes to win yesterday’s quarterfinal game of the MIAA Division II South tournament by a final score of 13-12.
With the win, the fifth-seeded Vineyarders (14-4-1) advance to a semifinals game against eighth-seeded Duxbury (14-4-1). The game will be held on the Island Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at the regional high school main athletic field.
A funny thing happened on the way to the state tournament this past week for the regional high school boys’ tennis team.
In the most bizarre of circumstances, the boys were forced to play the girls’ team from East Bridgewater in the preliminary round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament because of a little-known provision in the rules regarding mixed-gender teams.