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Dean’s List
Rachel Reagan of Oak Bluffs has been named to the dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
This is the big centennial year for the Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club. While the club members haven’t yet figured out how to celebrate, they’ve taken one first step to capitalize on the milestone: They’ve come out with 100 special, limited edition, numbered hats.
Vineyard residents between the ages of 15 and 19, in the upper one third of their academic class, who want to be a world traveler, should take note of the Rotary Club of Martha’s Vineyard offer of a short-term exchange in 2011. With the short-term exchange the Island student will go overseas for about three weeks during the summer vacation, staying with a Rotary family abroad that also has a teenaged student. At the end of the stay, the foreign teenager will return and spend about three weeks with the Vineyard student’s family.
Oliver Carson Wins Bee
For the second year in a row, Oliver Carson, now a seventh grader, won the Oak Bluffs School Geography Bee sponsored by National Geographic. Oliver edged out sixth grader Ellie Hanjian in the final round by knowing that the tallest mountain in Africa is Mt. Kilimanjaro. Oliver has taken a written exam to try to qualify for the Massachusetts State Geography Bee which will take place in April. The winner from the state bee competes in Washington, D.C. in the National Geography Bee.
Chilmark fire chief David Norton took a little heat of a different kind on Tuesday night, as he pushed his case with selectmen for a pay raise of more than 50 per cent.
Mr. Norton’s current stipend is $21,000. He wanted it upped to $33,000. And that figure, he suggested, was giving the town a discount.
The scope of one homeowner’s unpermitted dredging and filling work on Mink Meadows Pond became apparent on Tuesday night when conservation commission members heard from a land surveyor and the contractor who carried out the work.