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Island guy Elliott Vecchia’s new movie Natural Selection is a skateboarding film shot around Boston and Lowell. In a trailer for the movie, a cast of skateboarders do what they do best. They fly on their boards over stairs, railings, grassy hills, buildings, clouds; it is as if nothing is beyond the reach of their wheels. They do this not in a sound studio or generated on a computer screen. There is no high tech, no instruction manual or team, no coach and most of all no boundaries. It is the ethos of skating. Use what the urbanized world gives you and make it your plaything.
Seventh-grader John Morris defeated eighth-grader Olivia Pate to claim victory in the 2013 Edgartown School geography bee on Thursday. Of the 10 competition students, all winners of their respective classroom competitions, the final two were asked to name which country, in addition to Argentina, is home to the Yaghan tribe of Tierra Del Fuego.
John cemented his victory with the correct answer: Chile.
Other questions in the Edgartown geography bee tested the 10 finalists’ knowledge of the Natchez Trace, Continental Divide, the Green Mountains and Chesapeake Bay.
The Martha’s Vineyard Cancer Support Group will be holding an eight-week class at the YMCA designed to help patients feel healthy again and regain control over their lives through exercise. The classes will help to improve flexibility and balance, rebuild muscles, protect bones, and enhance vitality and all-around health.
In an effort to lower nitrogen amounts in Sengekontacket Pond, Edgartown and Oak Bluffs are embarking on a yearly project to grow oysters in the Major’s Cove area of the pond.
In Edgartown, shellfish constable Paul Bagnall told selectmen Tuesday that the shellfish committee is proposing spending $24,000 on 250,000 oyster seed for the pond. The original plan was to spend $48,500 on 500,000 oysters, but the amount was reduced because of the number of articles submitted for town meeting.
Members of a search committee recommended three finalists on Tuesday for the role of Tisbury town administrator, a position left vacant since John Bugbee stepped down in October after nine years on the job.
The candidates, chosen from an original pool of 38 applicants, are Peter Graczykowski, city manager in East Providence, R.I.; John W. Grande, planning board director for the city of Framingham; and Sally Rizzo, project manager at the Massachusetts State Retirement Board.
Firefighters responded to a chimney fire at 4 Central avenue in downtown Oak Bluffs on Tuesday afternoon. Assistant Chief John Rose said the fire broke out through a crack in the chimney on the second floor of the home, but the owner of the property was able to extinguish the flames. Firefighters worked for two and a half hours to make sure that the fire did not spread.