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The Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard is now accepting applications for its 2012 educational scholarships.
Seventeen scholarship funds are administered by the permanent endowment, which will be awarding scholarships to both high school seniors and Vineyard students currently enrolled in college or graduate school. Last year, $144,300 in scholarships were awarded to 63 Island students, with awards ranging from $500 to $5,000.
Authors of a new book documenting the first 150 years of the agricultural fair are looking for missing premium books throughout the years. Susan Klein and Alan Brigish are in search of the fair booklets from 1872, 1919 through 1925, 1929 through 1940, and all of the 1950s and 1960s. Booklet owners can contact Ms. Klein at 508-693-4140.
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At a press conference staged in Charlestown Friday, federal officials announced they were moving ahead with plans to open up a large area south of the Vineyard for offshore wind development.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it would begin an environmental assessment for the 1,300-square-mile area that lies about 14 miles south of the Vineyard.
“There is great potential here,” bureau director Tommy P. Beaudreau told The Boston Globe. The press conference was held at the state’s wind technology testing center in Charlestown.
Grace Church in Vineyard Haven is breaking the claws for a Super Bowl feast. The lobster rolls are available for pickup from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. One roll, chips and a beverage is $15. Hotdogs are $3 and a slice of pie is $4.
The church urges those with big appetites to call ahead to 508-693-0332.
Do Islanders like it, not know about it or just not care?
A nearly-nonexistent turnout at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission Thursday night for a public hearing on a new 12,200-square-foot solar canopy over the parking lot at Cronig’s Market in Vineyard Haven had some commissioners scratching their heads.
“There certainly doesn’t seem to be an outcry of public concern about this project, but I’m curious whether people are really paying a lot of attention,” said commissioner Linda Sibley.