Friday, March 29, 2024

Town Columns

West Tisbury: snow and more snow

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Oh boy! Snow and more snow. It swirled and danced and blew a week ago, piling up against doors, high drifts in some places, blown clean in others. It's snowing again this morning as...

Edgartown: Yay, Pats!!

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Well, last week was basically canceled due to snow. School, activities, work, life — pretty much all things were canceled or postponed, perhaps with the exception of mass consumption of bread and milk. Luckily,...

Edgartown: A good storm, and the feeling of a long ago harbor alehouse

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As I sit here typing, the blizzard outside my window is beginning to pick up steam. The skylights are nearly covered, and the branches are laden in white. The milk and bread are put...

West Tisbury: lots of projects around town

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I am late getting my column done this week, so the wind is howling and snow blowing across the windows as I sit here writing. We are all inside, the dogs, kitty, and fish....

Tisbury: accomplished kids at the Tisbury School

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Congratulations to Owen Porterfield. This eighth grader claimed victory in the 2015 Tisbury School geography bee last week. Owen correctly answered “Kenya” to this question: “National Geographic explorer Shivani Bhalla works with warriors in...

Oak Bluffs: lots going on, despite the storm

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On this cold and snowy Monday as I am writing, everyone is preparing for a winter blizzard that is predicted to be one of historic proportions. Hopefully it will not be as severe as...

Aquinnah: Birthdays, blizzards and babies

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My little column seems completely redundant on a week like this. As I write this, “they” are predicting two feet of snow and 70 mph winds. School for Tuesday has already been closed, and...

Chilmark: a week of words straight from the heart

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We have risen, risen with glorious morning light licking at the horizon, the ground melting under our feet, driven over edges of ice breaking into mud, dirt turning to a cloud of dust as...

Edgartown: Snowy owl sighting

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Updated, 4:45 pm, Thursday, Jan. 22. * It is time for me to buy stock in Kleenex and chicken broth, because I have officially caught every virus with which I have come into contact this...

Aquinnah: Making a snow globe

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Congratulations to our own very own AFC champions, the Patriots! They will be going to the Super Bowl in a little over a week. While the game against the Colts this past Sunday was...

Chilmark: Visit the Brickyard

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We’ve pretty much been holed up at home for a week and now, 10 days into my husband’s flu, he still has a wicked cough and chest congestion. We made it through my homemade...

Tisbury: Nights at the movies

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Best wishes for a rapid recovery go out to Steve Nichols. He is in rehab at Brewster while he learns how to break in his new hip. The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of the...

West Tisbury: Tween and teen yoga at the library

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I am reminded every day how lucky I am to live in such a beautiful place, how I return again and again to the same landscapes and appreciate them anew every time. When Mike...

Oak Bluffs: Getting organized

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Such a short time ago we were celebrating the start of the year 2015, and now January is already almost over. We have certainly have been experiencing a variety of every kind of weather...

Oak Bluffs: Best wishes to Buddy deBettencourt

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Can it be that January is half over already?  Students that were here for winter break are returning to their schools, and many residents have already headed to warmer climates. But we have many...

West Tisbury: First snowdrops blooming along Music Street

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A skim of ice coated the ponds, the surrounding grass, and shrubbery. Rhododendron leaves shriveled against the cold. Temperatures plummeted to near zero, then soared to almost forty degrees with rain that flooded walkways...

Aquinnah: Free yoga at town hall

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Did everyone watch the Patriots game this weekend? That was a stressful one. They did make it to play another game in the postseason this weekend. They will face the Indianapolis Colts this Sunday...

Edgartown: Lose a whole lot of tennis balls?

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Is someone missing a bunch of tennis balls? Because there had to be at least 50 balls bouncing around the streets of Edgartown this weekend. I was talking to Nick Prescott, who had seen...

Tisbury: The singing of freedom songs

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Whether you support Community Services or like to take advantage of a real bargain, you should shop at the Thrift Shop. From books to bureaus, there is something for everyone. My husband finds computer...

Chilmark: Lots going on

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It was the last week with my younger son home; transitioning back to a more regular life schedule, my husband came down with the flu and four days later so did I. We like...