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The Martha’s Vineyard Doors Collaborative will host a three-class grant writing and research workshop at the Oak Bluffs Library’s Martha’s Vineyard Nonprofit Resource Center on April 23 and 24. The workshop includes hands-on training on the Foundation Center’s online directory of over 100,000 funders, which is available free of charge at the Resource Center.
The cost, underwritten by the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation, is $20 and includes lunch and refreshments. Though the workshop is open to anyone, attendance is limited to 30 people.
April is poetry month, and to celebrate the West Tisbury Library’s is holding its annual community poetry night on Sunday, April 22 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
West Tisbury’s newest poet laureate, Justin Ahren will be on hand to help out anyone and everyone who wants to read, listen or both.
Refreshments will be served and reader order will be determined, as per usual, by drawing names out of a hat. For more information, call 508-693-3366.
A prominent Island insurance executive and well-known Chilmark resident was arrested and charged this week with child molestation, stemming from incidents in West Tisbury and Chilmark in which he allegedly exposed himself to a child.
The cruise ship Balmoral, involved in a much publicized transatlantic commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, has docked today in Oak Bluffs waters. The cruise ship left England on April 8 and followed the ill fated ship’s same route, arriving in New York. From there, passengers have been treated to an extended journey to Martha’s Vineyard, where they will today explore the Martha’s Vineyard Campground.
A sharp increase in the annual town operating budget and the question, both financial and philosophical, of whether to continue participation in the Massachusetts Estuaries Project are the key issues that will come before Chilmark voters at their annual town meeting Monday night.
The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Chilmark Community Center; longtime moderator Everett Poole will preside over the 22-article warrant. The annual town election is Wednesday.
The fastest sailor in world history wins again!
Rob Douglas of Vineyard Haven won the Mondial du Vent Orange Speed Crossing — the largest combined kitesurfing and windsurfing speed event — in Leucate, France last week. Rob set a new course record of 43.32 knots.
Rob’s brothers Jamie and Morgan, also of Vineyard Haven, placed fifth and ninth overall in the competition.
The brothers are sponsored by Lynch Associates, The Black Dog, Cabrinha, DaKine and Cornerfive Surf Company.