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Edgartown selectmen voted Monday to reapply for a housing rehabilitation program under the federal Community Development Block Grant that allows eligible homeowners to borrow up to $35,000 for critical home repairs.
Under the grant, homeowners who make 80 per cent or less of median income are eligible for the no-interest loans, which are forgivable over a period of 15 years.
Motorists driving along Beach Road between Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven will cross a new Lagoon Pond drawbridge starting next week.
Traffic will shift from the current single-span bridge built in 1935 to a new metal bridge that is now nearly six years and some $9 million in the making.
For most people on the Vineyard, the good news about the year 2009 is that it is over. No matter which way you look at it, last year was a tough one.
Even the weather was bad, beginning with a big dump of snow on New Year’s Eve. That was briefly very pretty, but over the succeeding weeks and months of repeated thaws and freezes, the ground cover mostly alternated between mush and dirty, treacherous ice.
Please Adopt Us
From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Barack Obama will be the theme of the annual Martha’s Vineyard NAACP Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Membership and Awards Brunch, on Jan. 18, from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Deon’s restaurant in Oak Bluffs.
Steve Bernier, the Rev. Roger H. Spinney and Tobias Vanderhoop will be presented with outstanding service awards. Troy Small and Randall Jette, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students, will be guest speakers.
The Lobster in Winter
The Lobster Rollers of Grace Episcopal Church (at the corner of Woodlawn avenue and William street in Vineyard Haven) will be offering once-a-month off-season lobster roll service on the first Sunday of the month, starting Jan. 3. The award-winning rolls come after the usual church service — that is, food for the soul at 11 a.m., and food for the body from 12:30 to 2 p.m.