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Will Rogers said if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
So it was for officials in Oak Bluffs, who tried for six months to move forward with a plan to dredge Sengekontacket Pond to improve its tidal circulation and reduce bacteria levels that previously forced the state to close the pond to shellfishing during the summer months.
Rabies Clinic
The annual rabies clinic for Island pets sponsored by the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard is Saturday, April 3. The cost is $15 and the vaccination is good for one year. The clinic will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at two locations: the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard in Edgartown (the old MSPCA) and in West Tisbury at the Public Safety Building on State Road. All dogs must be leashed and all cats and ferrets in carriers.
Work continued between bad rain storms at Morning Glory Farm over the past two weeks. The setting of the timbers for the post and beam barn, the future home for the retail store, were almost complete when a fir tree was put on the top on Wednesday afternoon.
Jim Athearn of Morning Glory Farm said he has been thinking about the design for the store for 30 years. From a slight distance the structure looks a lot like two other wooden agricultural buildings in West Tisbury.
March was the wettest on record for Martha’s Vineyard since recording began in 1946.
The National Weather Service cooperative station in Edgartown recorded a total of 8.65 inches for the month. The last wettest March was is 1983, when the total was 8.22 inches.
Three weather systems collaborated to give New England one of the soggiest months on record: A high pressure system hovering over the North Atlantic, an active southern jet stream, and slow moving soaking weather systems moving in from the west.
When student council members at the regional high school set out last year to hold their own Green Week, a national initiative to turn students into stewards for the environment, they meant business.
Beetlebung Reopens
Beetlebung Coffee House will reopen today, April 2, offering free drip coffee in the morning and 50 per cent off all panini at lunch.
Owner Renee Molinari closed Beetlebung this year for the first time in five winters. For spring, the coffee house will be open Wednesday through Monday (closed Tuesday) from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Our Island Club members receive 20 per cent off the cost of all regularly priced panini and apparel.