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Burning Bush
Well over 200 people attended the gallery opening of The Art of the Ceramic Bowl at Featherstone this Sunday, which kicked off with a fund-raising effort that gave new meaning to a common Vineyard abbreviation. The event, which sought to raise money for the purchase of Featherstone’s new kiln, was Buy Your Own Bowl.
Tisbury is looking at signing onto a state program which offers millions of dollars in grant money to communities which undertake policies to cut their energy use by 20 per cent, and make themselves friendly for alternative energy development.
The next meeting of the town selectmen will hear a presentation organized by town administrator John Bugbee on the benefits of joining the Green Communities Program from a state-nominated consultant who would then help navigate the requirements for entry to the program.
A wind farm off Cuttyhunk — one of only two places in the commonwealth designated for commercial wind development — is in the earliest stages of planning, although at this stage the details are being kept carefully under wraps.
Veggies Go Bye-Bye
The last Wednesday West Tisbury Farmers’ Market of the season is this week, Wednesday, Sept. 1.
President Obama and his family ended their 10-day Vineyard vacation quietly on Sunday morning, lifting off in Marine One at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport at just before 10 a.m.
The motorcade departed the presidential vacation home at Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark at 9:30 a.m. under clear blue and skies and warm sunshine. Small groups of onlookers gathered along the West Tisbury Road to wave goodbye as the President passed.