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At Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown the summer’s undulating sea of cornstalks and striated expanses of green have given way to the frost-kissed and fallow soil of fall. A biting damp wind sweeps over the fields, heralding months of cold privation. It would appear that this year’s harvest is over. But for a group called the Martha’s Vineyard Gleaners, it is just beginning.
Following a tense two-hour standoff, Edgartown police yesterday arrested a 38-year-old man who had barricaded himself inside a home on Whaler’s Walk while brandishing a handgun, threatening to kill himself and also shoot the team of police officers who responded to the scene.
Arthur Scott Smith was taken into custody around 2 p.m. on Thursday and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. At press time yesterday, police were in the process of obtaining a search warrant for the Whaler’s Walk home where Mr. Smith was renting a room.
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Gov. Deval Patrick has been accused of snubbing attempts by a delegation of Vineyard community leaders to meet with him and share their concerns about the impact of the state’s draft oceans plan on the Island.
The delegation, which includes representatives of every Island board of selectmen, the Dukes County Commission, Martha’s Vineyard Commission and the Wampanoag tribe, has been trying without success for almost three weeks to get a meeting with the governor.
The Vineyard is among a handful of places in America selected as part of a pilot study involving new “smart grid” appliances which take advantage of cheaper off-peak electricity.
The Vineyard Energy Project (VEP) has been awarded almost $800,000 to be part of the project, which will be carried out in association with General Electric, and which will see 50 Island homes fitted out with new smart appliances, able to be remotely controlled to take advantage of times when demand for power is lower and it is therefore cheaper.
The Island Children’s School in West Tisbury was a busy place on Wednesday morning, as two to five-year-olds spread throughout two schoolrooms went about their daily preschool routines.
One group crowded around a colorful picture book on a comfy couch in the corner, while another worked intently, with the help of a teacher, to transform brown paper lunch bags into fish puppets. Snapshot portraits tucked into the pockets of a job chart poster acted as a guide to which students are responsible for the daily weather report, line-leading, or ringing the bell.