Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on Thursday posted moving tributes to Tafari Campbell, a White House chef during the Obama years who apparently drowned while paddle boarding near the former president’s estate on Martha’s Vineyard on July 23.
Tafari Campbell of Dumfries, Va., had been paddle boarding in Edgartown Great Pond when he appeared to briefly struggle, submerged, and did not return to the surface, authorities have said. Crews ultimately found the 45-year-old’s body Monday morning.
Commissioners closed the public hearing on Island Grown Initiative’s expansion project and left the written record open until Feb. 17. The nonprofit proposes a new, one-story, 3,200-square-foot education and innovation center for offices and educational spaces, three seasonal yurts 16 feet in diameter each, and two new employee housing buildings at the farm’s property in […]