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Sharky’s Cantina is celebrating all things Mexican with a Cinco de May celebration on Saturday night. Both the Edgartown and Oak Bluffs locations will offer free food from 6 to 9 p.m. At 9:30 p.m. Rick Bausman’s Beetlebung Steel Band hits the stage in Edgartown. A taco eating contest begins at 10:30 p.m.
After two years of planning and proposals, Tea Lane Farm has a new tenant farmer.
Krishana Collins was awarded the Tea Lane Farm lease Friday evening. The vote was 5-3.
The joint vote was taken between the board of selectmen and the town Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission advisory board. The vote was between two candidates, Ms. Collins and Rusty Gordon and Sarah Crittenden, who proposed a vegetable farm.
Ms. Collins plans to grow lilies, zinnias, bok choy and salad greens.
Clear the roads! On Saturday, May 5 hundreds of bicyclists will take to the street for the annual Ride the Vineyard fundraiser, presented by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The bike race kicks off at 9 a.m. at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School. Participants will choose from 15, 30 and 60 mile routes that crisscross the Island. Funds raised benefit the fight against MS and the Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club.
For more information, go to bikemam.nationalmssociety.org.
The fish are here — in force.
Striped bass, alewives (also known as herring), black sea bass and squid have arrived for an early start to the fishing season. Striped bass have been seen and caught in hot pursuit of herring swimming into local coastal ponds.
The state advisory commission that manages saltwater fisheries in our waters, under the Massachusetts State Division of Marine Fisheries, will hold a meeting Thursday, May 10, 11 a.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in the Tisbury Town Hall. It is rare for the commission to meet here — they meet nine times a year and almost always on the mainland. The director of the division, Paul Diodati, will also attend along with the commissioners and division staff.
Waters are swirling with juvenile winter flounder within the Wampanoag Tribe’s hatchery in Aquinnah.
Tens of thousands of tiny little fish, only a few weeks old, are the result of months of work. John Armstrong, hatchery project manager, said the babies are eating well and getting bigger.