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Julienne Turner has taken the helm at MVTV as station manager and executive director, bringing more than a decade of community television experience at stations in Hawaii, Oregon and New Hampshire.
She aims to demystify the technical world behind the scenes of television production and empowering members to create their own content.
By MEGAN DOOLEY
Aquinnah selectmen are warning residents to keep their household trash out of town dumpsters, and backing it up with a new $500 fine for violators.
A large, open dumpster at the West Basin intended primarily for fishermen has been regularly filled to the brim with household and commercial trash, said selectman and board chairman Camille Rose at a selectmen’s meeting yesterday morning. “It was overflowing,” she said.
After talking tough on trash the past few weeks, the Oak Bluffs board of health on Tuesday adopted a new rule that includes a $300 fine for anyone caught illegally disposing of their trash in town-controlled dumpsters by the harbor and elsewhere around town.
The new fines are effective immediately.
The policy was adopted following a brief public hearing, attended by a single resident.
A plan by the owners of Big Sky Tents to build a 9,600-square-foot building in a wooded area off the Dr. Fisher Road in West Tisbury has sparked some strong reaction among neighbors who are concerned about added noise and traffic.
The concerns were registered at a public hearing before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission last week.
The structure is planned for tent storage and a party rental business.
The term brownout took on a literal meaning Tuesday night, when a malfunctioning town sewer system, caused by a temporary loss of electricity, left the basement of a waterfront Edgartown restaurant flooded with sludge.
The Atlantic restaurant remained closed yesterday while cleanup continued but the owners expected to be ready to reopen on Monday.
The oysters are growing like proverbial weeds in Katama Bay this summer.
Jack Blake and his wife Sue of Sweet Neck Farm Oysters said their crop of cultured bivalves is three weeks ahead of last year’s crop. “The water temperature in Katama Bay is 75 degrees now. Last year at this time it was 68. Oysters love warm water,” Mr. Blake said.