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Mar 4, 2021 Courtesy photos Above, Dan Doyle and Steve Buckbee from BBD Training Associates give a presentation on suicide prevention at Escanaba Area High School Tuesday. During the past week and a half, school social workers Le Ann Bink and Jenny Renyolds have been raising awareness about depression and suicide using resources for students and parents from erikaslighthouse.org. Tuesday’s four presentations by Doyle, Buckbee and Cindy Bitner of the Suicide Prevention Task Force brought the message about the seriousness of depression and suicide to students at multiple grade levels. Courte...

Chilmark selectmen put the brakes on a preliminary plan to build a shared-use bike path on North Road, amid a sea of criticism from town residents Tuesday. The outpouring of disapproval came at the selectmen’s meeting, after a letter recently went out to frontage property owners on the rural road sketching the preliminary concept for the path. Drafted by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and brought before the West Tisbury and Chilmark planning boards in September, the preliminary plan calls for creating a shared walking and cycling path along the six-mile bucolic road that runs from State...

In a recent T-D Ameritrade survey, 47% of student athletes said they now believe the cancellation of sports during the pandemic could put their college scholarship at risk. "That was my moment to have colleges watch me and it's canceled," said Devin Schoenberger, a soccer player at Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, Calif. "We don't know what other opportunities we're going to have and a lot of us aren't committed yet." More than 180,000 students rely on sports scholarships to help finance their education every year, but the NCAA has implemented a recruiting dead period until April 2...

MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: December 22, 2020 496 VFW 8870 Post Chaplain Dan Doyle with Teri’s Toybox owner Teri Soelter.  (Photo courtesy VFW Post 8870) The Christmas toy drive partnership between Edmonds VFW Post 8870 and Teri’s Toybox in downtown Edmonds was a resounding success. According to Post Past Commander Mike Denton, approximately $2,500 worth of toys were donated — all of which were distributed to children of families in need. In the past, the VFW has collected — during its annual VFW/Legion Christmas party — a large number of toys for distribution to children of fa...

MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: December 11, 2020 519 VFW Post 8870 Past Commander Mike Denton and Teri Soelter, owner of Teri’s Toy Box, stand next to the toy collection box. For many years, Edmonds VFW Post 8870 has collected — during its annual VFW/Legion Christmas party — a large number of toys for distribution to children of families in need. When that party was canceled this year due to COVID, Post Chaplain Dan Doyle contacted Teri’s Toybox owner Teri Soelter in downtown Edmonds and arranged to place a box in the store marked for VFW’s Toy drive. The idea is to encourage store...