Community
To provide food, warmth and community during the long Vineyard winter, faith communities around the Island are once again offering free community suppers.
Thanks to a grant from the MV Local Cultural Council to Adult and Community Education of MV (ACE MV), there will be scholarship funds available for students enrolled in arts, education, and social justice.
The January meeting of Neighborhood Convention will be held at the Federated Church, 45 South Summer street, Edgartown, on Tuesday, Jan. 6, beginning at 11 a.m.
John G. Early, a longtime West Tisbury selectman and volunteer on many committees and organizations across the Island, has been honored with the Spirit of the Vineyard award. The community room at the West Tisbury Library was overflowing as friends and supporters listened to one speaker after another praise Mr. Early.
The roots of Chicken Alley in Vineyard Haven, otherwise known as Lagoon Pond Road, go back to the days when chickens and pigs mingled on dirt roads with dirty-kneed children on their way to go fishing.
Traffic on upper Main street, Edgartown, was interrupted this morning after a water main broke in front of Sharky's Cantina. Police, fire, highway department crews, along with members of the water department, responded at 9:59 a.m.