News
The Edgartown Board of Trade is celebrating a new event, the Pink & Green weekend, from May 11 to May 13 with promotions and discounts on pink and green items. The Edgartown Council on Aging will serve a pink and green meal — salmon primavera with snow peas — at the Anchors, and kids are invited to create their own herb gardens at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. There will be crafts at the library, and special Mother’s Day breakfasts or brunches at the Edgartown Inn, Among the Flowers and the Harbor View Hotel.
As erosion inches the Gay Head Lighthouse closer to the edge, the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is moving ahead with a study to assess the urgency of relocating the 156-year-old structure.
The study will take place over the course of three years and provide a “more realistic” prediction of what the long-term needs are for the area, museum director David Nathans said yesterday.
Discount Tickets
Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is selling season tickets for Martha’s Vineyard Sharks games at a discounted price. Season tickets, normally $100, are $80 if purchased through the hospice. Children’s tickets (under 13 years of age) are also available for $40. Half the proceeds will be donated directly to the hospice.
Individual tickets to the games are $5 per game for adults; tickets for children under 13 are $3 per game.
This is not your parent’s prom.
There are the limo buses that will hit Island streets Saturday night, the online shopping to find the perfect dress (a bonus for Island-bound Vineyard teens), and the inevitable Facebook pictures of the big night.
No matter the differences, though, Vineyard high schoolers will follow in their forebears’ footsteps this Saturday for a teenage rite of passage, the prom.
This year, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School junior prom will be held at the Edgartown Yacht Club from 6 to 10 p.m.
The high school committee this week took a first step toward reestablishing a school resource officer, with an eye toward combining guidance with law enforcement and establishing a positive police role model for students.
At its meeting Monday the district committee voted unanimously to explore creating the position, which would be full time.
Reports that the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) wants to open a bingo hall in Aquinnah came as a surprise to members of the Island community this week. But documents filed with the federal gaming commission show plans to conduct gaming on the Vineyard have been in the works since at least November.