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For a couple of precious seconds, JibJab Jr. held up. And then, as Charlotte Potter and Josie Iadicicco looked on helplessly, the miniature bridge, weighing just half a pound and built of nothing but dry pasta and glue, cracked and collapsed under the weight of the twenty-five pound disc resting on its roadbed.
For a couple of precious seconds, JibJab Jr. held up.
And then, as Charlotte Potter and Josie Iadicicco looked on helplessly, the miniature bridge, weighing just half a pound and built of nothing but dry pasta and glue, cracked and collapsed under the weight of the twenty-five pound disc resting on its roadbed.
“I’m actually surprised,” math teacher Ken deBettencourt told the two regional high school freshmen, “I thought it’d hold at least fifty [pounds].”
The Martha’s Vineyard Travel Mites capped an already exciting season—including an appearance at TD Garden and a four-game tourney sweep at the Frank Bell Memorial Tournament—by bringing home the Cape and Islands league trophy, defeating Nantucket 3-2 on Saturday and Hetland 5-1 on Sunday.
For current American Idol contestant Erika Van Pelt, last week moving into the top twelve, handling the pressure of performing in front of an audience of millions should be a walk in the park.
After all, her very first gig with the Sultans of Swing, the Martha’s Vineyard based event band most commonly seen at weddings and summer events, was a Nantucket wedding in which she sang two hours of overtime as a storm rolled in over the horizon.
Talk about a high-pressure situation.
For current American Idol contestant Erika Van Pelt, last week moving into the top twelve, handling the pressure of performing in front of an audience of millions should be a walk in the park.
For current American Idol contestant Erika Van Pelt, last week moving into the top twelve, handling the pressure of performing in front of an audience of millions should be a walk in the park.
After all, her very first gig with the Sultans of Swing, the Martha’s Vineyard based event band most commonly seen at weddings and summer events, was a Nantucket wedding in which she sang two hours of overtime as a storm rolled in over the horizon.
Talk about a high-pressure situation.
As the second week of postseason sports draws to a close, one Vineyard team remains in the hunt for a championship title. The boys’ basketball team traveled to Taunton Wednesday evening, defeating Westwood 89-69 to advance to the final round of the MIAA division 3 south section tournament, where they will play number-one seed Wareham, an undefeated team.
It’s nine in the morning on a recent Saturday, and if you look closely at the group on the ice of the Martha’s Vineyard Arena, you can see the future.
Their jerseys, helmets, pads, and skates are pint-size — as are the players themselves, as if a full-size hockey player was put in the dryer for too long. Their knees wobble and their legs splay out as they come to slow, careful stops. They hold their sticks uncertainly, and their swats at round plastic balls more often than not throw them off balance and onto their rears.