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The West Tisbury Library Foundation, Inc. has raised more than $1 million, or approximately two-thirds of its goal, to fund a major library expansion and renovation project.
“People have given freely, not only financially, but also of their time and talents,” foundation chairman Hunter Moorman said this week. “It’s been a community-wide effort in every sense of the word.”
The list this year is for more than 300 children.
And volunteers at the Red Stocking Fund have checked it twice and are already deep into shopping for shoes, warm winter coats and pajamas for needy Island children.
Oh, and don’t forget the bicycles — which are not bought but donated; the 73-year-old fund does not buy toys but accepts donations of them for children.
“My daughter has 12 bicycles in her home,” declared Kerry Alley of Oak Bluffs, who codirects the Red Stocking Fund with Lorraine Clark of Vineyard Haven.
Five years ago Mitchell Posin and Clarissa Allen had a vision: of sheep grazing under a windmill that powered their Chilmark farm. It was a vision of a working farm functioning with clean energy, from the grass the sheep ate to the compost tea they helped produce to the wind that spun the turbine.
On Monday morning that vision became reality when a 149-foot turbine was installed at the farm, the largest turbine to date on the Island.
Once it is fully operational, the windmill will produce 125,000 kilowatt hours per year.
Ithaca College Honors
Oak Bluffs resident Matthew Fisher was inducted into Ithaca College’s Oracle Honor Society in November. First-year students whose GPA puts them in the top 10 per cent of their school throughout the full academic year are invited into the society.
Pharmacy Student
Daniel Kaeka of West Tisury has been formally welcomed into Western New England University’s inaugural College of Pharmacy class. Western New England University is a private, co-educational institution founded in Springfield in 1919.
Edgartown Fishing Vessel
Cited for Safety Violations
The Coast Guard terminated the voyage of an Edgartown-based fishing vessel on Tuesday after multiple safety violations were discovered.
According to Coast Guard officials, the 40-foot fishing vessel Sea Raven did not have enough safety gear required to operate the vessel outside a three-nautical-mile line bordering federal waters. The violations included insufficient immersion suits and an unserviceable life ring.