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From the Front Page Work begins inside Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven,
destroyed by fire July 4.
Feature Story
Where Next for Live Music on Island?
Outerland, the Island’s only nightclub, is up for sale. Aboveground Records and Offshore Ale have cut back on their performances. The Oyster Bar’s entertainment license was revoked this summer. The Wintertide is gone. The old Atlantic Connection is now an amusement arcade.
» Full Story by Sam Bungey
Vineyard WeekWednesday, December 3, 2008
Toddler Time
Toddler Time is from 10 a.m. to noon at Native Earth Teaching Farm, 94 North Road in Chilmark, with animal visits and farm crafts. Weather permitting. For details, call 508-645-3304 or see nativeearthteachingfarm.org.
Back to the Drawing Board
Back to the Drawing Board with Nancy Blank is from 10 a.m. to noon at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. Cost is $30. For details, call 508-693-1850.
Open Pottery Studio
Open Pottery Studio is from 2 to 5 p.m. at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. Cost is $5 per hour. For details, call 508-693-1850.
Kids: Animals in Arts
Kids: Animals in Arts class for ages 5 to 10 with Lani Carney runs 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Featherstone Center for the Arts. Cost is $30.
Transcendental Flute
Transcendental Flute with Ronn Speed, a four-class series, begins today at 5 p.m. at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. Cost is $130; $120 if bring own flute. For details, call 508-693-1850.
Firehouse Figure Drawing Group
Firehouse Figure Drawing Group meets from 7 to 9 p.m. at Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs. Open session with no instructor. Cost is $10. For details, call 508-693-3651.
Live Irish Session
Live Irish Music session begins at 7 p.m. at Offshore Ale on Kennebec avenue in Oak Bluffs.
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Owner of Café Moxie Ready to Rebuild
Paul Currier, owner of the Café Moxie building destroyed when a fire broke out there on the Fourth of July, plans to apply today for a permit to rebuild the Main street, Vineyard Haven restaurant, with the backing of Mike Ryan of Island Woodworks.
“I would love nothing better than [for the new Café Moxie] to be open for the Fourth of July next year,’ Mr. Currier said...
By LAUREN MARTIN -
Island Banks Remain Steady Despite A Deepening Crisis in U.S. EconomyMartha's Vineyard's three local banks remain confident of riding out the storm now buffeting world financial markets, thanks to conservative lending practices which largely avoided involvement in the subprime mortgage market.
However, the heads of all three banks this week expressed concern about the effects of the financial crisis on the broader Island economy, given its heavy reliance on seasonal residents and visitors, many of whom will likely have less to spend in the coming year...
By MIKE SECCOMBE -
MCAS Report Card: Oak Bluffs Finds Good News, Bad NewsBy many measures the Oak Bluffs elementary school is having an excellent year.
There are 410 pupils at the school, which is up seven on last year, an anomaly on an Island where enrollment is steadily shrinking. Nearly 50 students are there by school choice, that is, children whose parents have elected to send them to the Oak Bluffs School from other towns...
By SAM BUNGEY -
Engineers Show Bridge Drawings
For the first time, state officials on Wednesday publicly unveiled plans for a permanent retractable bridge and its estimated price tag of $35 million, slated to replace the failing Lagoon Pond drawbridge in Vineyard Haven...
By JIM HICKEY -
Tisbury Voters Agree to Relocate Emergency Services Near SchoolTisbury voters shrugged off the prophets of financial doom in Washington and among their own ranks, and overwhelmingly endorsed two costly town initiatives at Tuesday night’s special town meeting.
By a margin of 131 to 24, they agreed to a plan to move the town fire, ambulance and emergency services to a new site on Spring street, opposite the Tisbury elementary school where the town hall annex now stands...
By MIKE SECCOMBE -
President of Edgartown National Bank Dies at Home on Tower Hill at Age of 97
Donald W. Vose, for 51 years the president of the Edgartown National Bank and for a dozen years the chairman of the board, died peacefully in his sleep at his Tower Hill home in Edgartown on Wednesday. He was 97...
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Few Dry Eyes in Agricultural Hall Tuesday At Service for Cape Air Pilot Lost in Crash
An overflow crowd came to the Agricultural Hall on Tuesday afternoon to celebrate and remember David Willey, the Vineyard Haven man and Cape Air pilot who died last Friday evening when his plane crashed near Nip ’n’ Tuck Farm in West Tisbury. He was 61...
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