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Vineyard Roadshow
Ever wonder what that odd heirloom, the one stashed away in the closet or displayed prominently in the sitting room, is actually worth? Well, you’re in luck because on Saturday, Dec. 4 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is holding an appraisal day.
Appraisal experts, Sara C. Wishart and Stuart Whitehurst, will be on hand to evaluate your prized objects. Items may even be consigned for sale with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
The Vineyard Nursing Association announced that Lena Vanderhoop received the Effie Chalmers Wadell award for exceptional service in the delivery of home care at the 40th Annual Home Care Aide Celebration, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Council for Home Care Aide Services and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs.
Bob Wheeler’s voice shook with emotion as he spoke of his reasons for stepping down from the board of the Island Affordable Housing Fund.
Mr. Wheeler, on the eve of his departure from Martha’s Vineyard to live on the other side of the country, after years spent “busting my ass” to put Islanders into affordable housing, wanted to say that despite the fund’s parlous financial state, despite the mistakes that had been made, he left “with my head held high.”
Wind developers pressed ahead on two fronts this week, as two new players entered the fray with proposals to develop wind farms in waters west of the Vineyard and Cape Wind put the final touches on a deal to sell electricity to National Grid.
Eight months from now, the Vineyard could finally be able to boast its first significant, working, zero-carbon energy project. And the power will come not from wind but from the sun.
By the start of July two towns, Edgartown and Tisbury, could be harvesting all their municipal energy needs from several acres of solar panels, and doing it affordably.
On Saturday, after two years of frustration and delay, Nantucket finally came back across the Muskeget Channel and down the placard-lined mean stre