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Camp is happy sanctuary for kids with HIV

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No matter how many pizzas, hotdogs, and ice cream cones get devoured, nor how many motorcycle rides, carousel spins, group hugs and dodge ball games bring shrieks of joy, the most important thing about Camp Safe Haven is community.

Island Alpaca’s Shearing Day

Island Alpaca's third annual Shearing Day attracted quite a crowd on Saturday.

Vacation fun at the MV Boys and Girls Club

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Island kids participated in a special "Funhunters Scavenger Hunt" during April school vacation week last Friday at the Martha's Vineyard Boys and Girls Club in Edgartown.

Nature fills the green thumb void

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Arriving on the Vineyard some 13 years ago, I was thrilled to have a yard of my own to garden in, for the first time in my life.

Announcements

Jacqueline Menton of Tisbury was named to the Headmaster's List of the second trimester of the 2009-2010 academic year at Falmouth Academy.

National Volunteer Week

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National Volunteer Week gives towns the opportunity to shine the spotlight on individuals who give their time to serve the community, and that's just what the Tisbury Council on Aging and Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center did.

Mary Jackson

Mary Etta Jackson, 74, died on April 15 peacefully at her home in Edgartown, surrounded by loved ones.

Ernest F. Nippes

Ernest Frederick Nippes, an academic committed to leadership, service, and devotion, died at home on April 3 surrounded by his family in Sanford, Florida.

Aquinnah

Are we really almost through with April? What a pleasant spring we have had so far.

Edgartown

Those who got an early start to putting away their winter wardrobes were not rewarded this past week as temperatures fell back to what we would expect for this time of year.

Chilmark

Forty years ago the Environmental Protection Agency was established to address the pubic demand for cleaner water, air, and land.

Earth Day

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This past Saturday morning, more than a hundred volunteers set out into the chilly, misty rain to help clean up the island's beaches.

Fit for peasantry?

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Today is Earth Day, the 40th anniversary of this well-intentioned rite, semantically dedicated to the wellbeing of our home planet, Earth.

Oak Bluffs

A typical Vineyard spring season has arrived with the colder temperatures and rain we have been having.

A passion for indigenous people

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Local businesswoman and Edgartown resident Kati Johnsen splits her time equally between the Vineyard and an isolated community in Peru where she is involved on a number of levels.

West Tisbury

One of the best parts of my day is the walk-around-the-yard assessment.

Nancy Luedeman

On Easter evening, April 4, an unassuming great woman left us.

They’re back!

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I visit osprey nests each day.

Anne L. Broome

Anne Lawton Broome, 84, died at her Edgartown home on Thursday, April 15.