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Breakfast Awaits
Next Friday morning is the annual St. Andrew’s Church May breakfast fundraiser, from 7 to 9 a.m. at the parish hall on the corner of Winter and North Summer streets in Edgartown.
A tradition of more than 50 years, this breakfast is a chance to gather your family, friends and coworkers to celebrate spring on the Vineyard with a homestyle country breakfast with farm fresh eggs donated by Morning Glory Farm. The cost is $8 for adults; children under six are free. All proceeds benefit Island Charities.
With its water-themed issue on the stands, National Geographic will continue to focus on this most precious resource on Martha’s Vineyard this weekend with the launch of the new book Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth’s Most Precious Resource and the premiere of its film Shark Eden. Events on Saturday and Sunday bring world-renowned authors, activists, filmmakers and musicians together for a festival called Water Is Life, cosponsored by the Island nonprofit group World Waterway.
The federal government has given approval for the development of Cape Wind, America’s first big offshore wind farm, on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.
The Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, announced his decision to approve the project, with only minor changes, at a joint press conference with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick at noon on Wednesday.
Construction could begin within the year on the 130-turbine development, Mr. Salazar said.
Tisbury voters today approved the sale of beer and wine in the town’s restaurants.
Proponents of beer and wine sales have been pushing the measure for five years. When it last was put to a ballot, two years ago, a first count scored it 690 votes all. A subsequent recount found two more no votes.
This time however, the margin was clear, if not overwhelming. There were 876 yes votes and 741 no votes.
Island residents who need to take the ferry to the mainland on a regular basis for special medical treatments such as chemotherapy will have a new, discounted rate, after the Steamship Authority board of governors approved the special rate at its monthly meeting on Tuesday in New Bedford.
Among all the species taken by fishermen in this part of the world, horseshoe crabs have, until now, enjoyed a dubious distinction: they were the only ones targeted while in the act of reproducing.
The easiest way for many to catch them was to walk the beaches at the times of the full and new moons in May and June and simply pick them up as they came into the shallows to spawn.