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On Sunday, Feb. 17, at 5:30 p.m. the 28th annual MLK Jr. members and awards dinner of the Martha’s Vineyard branch of the NAACP will be celebrated at The Grill on Main Street in Edgartown. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. and the featured guest speaker is Patricia J. Williams.
The archives of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum are on their way to being completely searchable via the internet, thanks to a grant the nonprofit organization received last week.
The Council on Library and Information Resources selected the museum to receive a Cataloging Hidden Collections and Archives grant of $293,000. The grant, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is the largest the museum has received in its 90 years of existence.
Perhaps by next year some brilliant student will invent a machine to blow blizzards away. But for now the high school Science Fair scheduled for last week will take place tomorrow, Feb. 16, at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
This is the 14th annual science and engineering fair. The public viewing takes place between 11 a.m. and 12:15 and the awards will be presented at 12:15 in the cafeteria.
The Vineyard Gazette won 24 awards in the annual New England Newspaper and Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, including the top prize of G
The Martha’s Vineyard Rotary Club has announced the creation of a new $2,000 Rotary Grant/Diana Bardwell Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to a junior or senior in good academic standing who has served the community or has an interest in pursuing an advanced degree in history, political science or law. For more information, contact the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School guidance department or Dr. Rolfe Wenner at [email protected].
The Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard thanks everyone who has adopted animals in the past few weeks — shelter cages are almost empty except for two adorable seven-week-old kittens, Fluffykins, and Georgia, who are dark, gray female tigers with blue eyes. Fluffykins is a long-haired kitty and Georgia has short hair. They are both too cute to describe, and their mother is a young tortoiseshell who will be ready to go to her new home in a couple of weeks after she is spayed.