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Rob Meyers, South Mountain Company’s manager of energy services, recently attended the Solar Energy Industries Association’s PV [photovoltaic] America conference in Philadelphia, the heart of the largest solar market in the U.S. In fact, Mr. Meyers said in a statement, more solar was installed from Boston to Washington D.C. last year than in the entire state of California.
Mr. Meyers was one of the 3,000 industry professionals learning about the most advanced solar technology available today.
Harland Gibbs
Harland J. Gibbs, of Edgartown, a certified real estate appraiser, has earned the residential accredited appraiser RAA designation from the National Association of Realtors.
Mr. Gibbs, an appraiser since 1975, holds membership in the National Association of Realtors, and is the owner of Martha’s Vineyard Real Estate Appraisers in Edgartown, a real estate appraisal company specializing in real property appraising.
Plum Achievement
Plum Hill School and Island Waldorf Community, Inc. recently were awarded Waldorf certification by the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America. Plum Hill invites all parents of children who are or will be two years, nine months through five year of age to contact the school for enrollment possibilities, at 508-696-7701.
Nearly a week after he was arrested at his South Water street home and briefly jailed on criminal charges of embezzlement, Edgartown attorney Edward W. (Peter) Vincent Jr. yesterday settled two separate civil cases alleging he misused client funds in real estate deals.
Criminal charges are still pending.
The Trustees of Reservations may be forced to close Wasque Reservation this summer if the erosion which has ravaged the southeastern corner of the Chappaquiddick reservation continues at the current rate, superintendent Chris Kennedy told the Edgartown conservation commission on Wednesday night.
Mr. Kennedy said there is a very real possibility that the parking lot at Wasque used by visitors for beach access will be gone by summer.
A divided gathering of West Tisbury voters agreed on Tuesday night to take the first step toward allowing the sale of beer and wine in restaurants in this historically dry town in the rural agricultural heart of the Vineyard. And while the measure still needs another year of approvals, including at the state legislature and in the ballot box by voters, what was seen as a sleeper article on the annual town meeting warrant woke up with a start near the end of a long meeting that had its share of bumps and peppery debates on matters both fiscal and philosophical.