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Nonprofit board and staff members can get help building an effective marketing campaign at a half-day workshop on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
Presenter Sue Silk will guide participants through such questions as: Is your mission compelling, clear, distinctive and valuable? Do your communications break through the clutter and engage donors in your cause? Do donors and the public understand the impact of your work? Can your marketing plan be improved?
A grant for renewable energy has flummoxed the West Tisbury selectmen who say that the terms of the grant are too restrictive and that the amount is too small to achieve anything worthwhile.
“We have $8,526.56 that I don’t have the slightest idea how to spend,” said executive secretary Jennifer Rand at the board meeting Wednesday. The grant is from the Renewable Energy Trust, an organization administered by the state’s development agency for renewable energy.
Open House
The Vineyard Health Care Access Program is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an open house on Friday, Nov. 13 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the program’s offices, located at 114 New York avenue in Oak Bluffs.
For details on the open house or on Access Program services, call 508-696-0020.
A stove burner that had been left on was the cause of an early morning fire on Monday at a two-family home on Fisher Road in Edgartown. The fire claimed the life of one pet and left two young families temporarily without a home.
At the Lightkeepers Inn on Simpson’s Lane in Edgartown, it was a long summer for light-sleeping inn-seekers.
Construction across the lane at the site of the former Shiretown Inn has provided its share of metaphorical and actual headaches to Heidi Raihofer and her guests at the Lightkeepers Inn over the past several months, and the time has come, she says, for a rational noise ordinance in Edgartown to address the matter.
Under mounting pressure from Island towns to deliver a budget with no increase over last year, the regional high school district committee hosted a crowd of concerned parents pushing for the reinstatement of an in-school driver’s education program at their meeting Monday night.