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A rowdy pastime has become too rowdy for some residents of West Tisbury, who voiced their exasperation at Wednesday’s selectmen’s meeting about dirt biking on Nip’n Tuck farm.
Calling the activity “a disturbance of the peace” that contributed “toxic noise pollution” to the neighborhood and beyond, Wayne Greenwell of Yellow Brick Road produced a letter signed by more than 20 West Tisbury residents who called for the cessation of the activity, which they claimed was illegal according to town noise bylaws.
Samuel Donegan
Samuel Donegan of Vineyard Haven has been admitted to Bryant University in Rhode Island.
Passed over for an administration job, a science teacher at the West Tisbury School whose students scored highest in this year’s state MCAS exams, has angrily and publicly appealed for an explanation, saying without one he would be forced to leave the Vineyard school system.
An impassioned Karl Nelson aired his grievance at a meeting of the up-Island school committee on Monday, arguing that he had been unfairly denied the job of interim assistant principal at the West Tisbury School this summer. An out-of-state candidate was selected.
The 22nd annual Howard W. Leonard Golf Scramble to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martha’s Vineyard took place on Sunday, Sept. 19, with beautiful weather for the 45 golfers who took to the Mink Meadows course following breakfast provided by the Black Dog Cafe.
When customers walk into the Morning Glory Farm stand off Meshacket Road in the outskirts of Edgartown, there is something homey about the scene, a feast for the senses. Workers carry in bushels of beans, the knees of their dungarees baggy and stained from a morning’s work in the fields. Bakers emerge from the farm kitchen balancing trays of fragrant, still-warm blueberry muffins. And owner Jim Athearn hoists huge burlap bags of sweet corn over his shoulder, emptying them onto a round table.