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By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
Some of the prettiest and fastest sailboats in the region will be in Edgartown this weekend for the 17th annual Edgartown Yacht Club 12-metre regatta. At least seven are expected from Newport.
At the foot of Main street in Edgartown two 80-foot masts tower over the yacht club clubhouse.
Tiny oysters paint the bottom of Tisbury and Edgartown Great Ponds. There has been a huge set of oysters this summer and the future looks bright for a bumper crop to be ready for harvest in three years. And all this is welcome news to a community of shellfish biologists, shellfish constables and water quality experts who have worked for years trying to restore what was historically a prosperous and healthy fishery.
The final numbers aren’t in quite yet, but an air of hope and patience remains at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services days after the 32nd annual Possible Dreams auction.
“We’re thoroughly pleased,” Community Services executive director Julia Burgess said yesterday. “We got well over $300,000 and we expect to get more.”
Ms. Burgess said the final number will not be available for two weeks and the tallying of the donations is ongoing as donations continue to come in.
As the Chilmark selectmen begin to explore funding options for expensive reconstruction needs following last month’s fire in Menemsha, they said this week that other spending projects may need to wait.
If a meeting of the Edgartown planning board this week is any example, the wind power debate doesn’t get any easier once it moves on shore.
Army Pvt. Timothy M. Silvia has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies, Army history, core values and traditions, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, map reading and land navigation, foot marches, armed and unarmed combat, and field maneuvers and tactics.