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The Trustees of Reservations has received additional funding from the Edey Foundation to support ongoing efforts to document native bees and other pollinators on Martha’s Vineyard this year.

An inventory last year covered a wide range of habitats and generated the first-ever, season-long “snapshot” of Vineyard pollinators, with nearly 10,000 specimens of bees collected and more than 130 species (and counting) of bees identified, including species not seen in the region for almost four decades.

Stock Market Winners

Two Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students won first place in a stock market competition involving more than 1,000 teams competing statewide, the Boston Globe and Security Industry and Financial Markets Associates (SIFMA) Stock Market Game.

Taylor Poggi won first overall, with a total return of 37.98 per cent in the regular account holdings.

Taylor and Alayna Hutchinon scored first and second in the Diversified Account holdings.

The fallout from last week’s Oak Bluffs special election continues as town officials question why the election was improperly posted and department heads face the reality of a more frugal future with still more cuts to come — including the spectre of layoffs.

Last Thursday 559 Oak Bluffs voters turned out for a special election to roundly reject two Proposition 2 1/2 override questions that would have restored some $484,361 in line items for various town departments.

Eve Vincent Codding and Geoff Codding of Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Finn Jackson Codding, born on May 29, 2011, at the Martha’s Vineyard

Hello, Lucas

Laura Sargent Hall and Brian Hall of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Lucas Daniel Hall, born on May 9, 2011, at Massachusetts General Hospital. Lucas weighed 1 pound, 14 ounces at birth. He is welcomed also by his brother, Ethan, and sister, Grace.