News
Standing on an Andean peak, looking down a 5,000-foot drop, marvelling at what nature can produce at its fullest capacity, Elliott Bennett was thinking about her students at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
At a meeting Monday, the Edgartown Library building committee discussed three early-stage construction options for a new town library: renovating the Carnegie building and adjacent Warren House; renovating the old Edgartown School, and renovating only the Carnegie building with a small addition on the back. The last two options would include the sale of the Warren House.
By PETER BRANNEN
Last week the Martha’s Vineyard Commission closed a public hearing on a proposed warehouse at the edge of the light industrial district in West Tisbury after Big Sky Tents owner Jim Eddy made his final offers, and abutters had one last chance to air grievances.
Commercial and recreational fishermen are challenging two government agencies for failing to protect river herring and shad from being caught and killed by Atlantic industrial fisheries.
Electronics Disposal
Electronics disposal day is Saturday, Oct. 2, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the campus of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, across from the high school.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their old and tired computers, monitors, televisions, printers, notebooks, copiers, scanners, air conditioners, stereo equipment, dehumidifiers, cell phones, microwaves, you name it. Disposal is then done off-Island in an environmentally friendly way.
COMSOG Festival
The Community Solar Greenhouse’s annual Fall Festival will be held on Sunday, Oct. 3 from noon to 3 p.m. at 114 New York avenue. Islanders anticipate the COMSOG soup each year (it’s free!) as well as the music, games, trifles and treasures sale, raffle and vendors.