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Island shelters prepare to weather weekend storm
A warming shelter is open inside West Tisbury library. -Susan Stafford
With high winds and extreme temperatures expected over the weekend, an emergency warming shelter will be open to a limited number of community members.
The emergency shelter, which is located in the meeting room of the West Tisbury Library, opened Friday at 11 am, and will remain operational until Monday at 11 am.
Folks must call the Dukes County Communications Center at 508-693-1212, or the West Tisbury Police Department at 508-693-0020 in order to be admitted, or to request additional information.
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Help the League of Women Voters
To the Editor:
The League of Women Voters of Martha’s Vineyard has run its signature fundraiser for more than 10 years. We collect inkjet printer cartridges at various sites around the Island and recycle them for refurbishing and resale. This keeps all these items out of our landfills, as well as earning the League money to continue its work.
EduComp was always our most active collection site on the Vineyard. Now that EduComp has closed its doors, we encourage the public to bring used cartridges to any one of our sites listed here: daRosa’s in Oak Bluffs, Edgartown library, Oak Bluffs library, Vineyard Haven library, West Tisbury library, and the M.V. Regional High School.
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Jean Stewart Wexler peacefully passed away on Nov. 18, 2020, at the age of 99.
The quintessential Vineyard woman, Jean was feisty, fiercely independent, and fearless. Born on June 12, 1921, in Charlotte, N.C., Jean grew up in her father Edwin Hoffman’s home state of South Dakota before moving to Berea, Ky., where her father was a professor at Berea College and her mother, Mary Lindsay Hoffman, a librarian at the local academy. Jean attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and later studied at the Black Mountain College Summer Art & Music Institute in Black Mountain, N.C., under the attentive eye of Josef Albers.