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Matt Mincone, head coach of the boys’ varsity hockey team at the regional high school, was named Coach of the Year by the South Shore Chapter of the National Ice Hockey Officials Association. Mr. Mincone has been part of the boys’ hockey program since 1998. He became head coach in 2001.
The Edgartown selectmen have reported to the Massachusetts Ethics Commission the activity of the former chairman of the town dredge committee, who used the town-owned dredge for work on a private project in Katama Bay last month. The private dock work ordered by committee chairman Norman Rankow was done without a permit and in violation of state and town environmental laws.
Mr. Rankow has since resigned from the committee.
On Tuesday this week the selectmen took up the issue with their town attorney.
The contentious and sometimes emotional debate over the possible euthanization of two Akitas came to a conclusion this week when the West Tisbury selectmen ordered the animals into the ownership of an off-Island rescue group rather than destroy the dogs. Per the agreement between the town and the dogs’ owners, the dogs are never to return to the Island.
Assignments included making French toast, building a robot, taking a yoga class and spray-painting stencil graffiti. For homework: chopping wood for the fire. The tests, voluntarily taken, were those of the imagination — how to fashion an outfit of candy wrappers, what color to paint the clay figurine, how best to build a shelter in the Vermont woods.
Welcome to project period at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School.
Early this week David Damroth was strolling Zack’s Cliffs in Aquinnah and gazed across the gulf to Noman’s Land when he saw an eruption from the water a mile and a half out. It was a double spout, a trademark of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. For the next 45 minutes he watched as at least three animals romped about the surface.
La Choza, a new burrito shop, will open Wednesday, Feb. 29 at 11 a.m., with a grand-opening celebration that day from noon to 2 p.m. at 4 Main street Vineyard Haven. Owner Seth Gambino said complimentary food will be served at the two-hour celebration. For the rest of the off-season, La Choza will be open Monday through Saturday.