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Classes Begin at Sail MV
Sail Martha’s Vineyard is starting a series of continuing education presentations on Thursday evenings this spring. The first will be next Thursday, April 9, with J.P. Uranker discussing quarterboards. Mr. Uranker has an educational background in art and more than 25 years experience in woodcarving. He will discuss the different styles of quarterboards and the techniques used in carving them. The presentation will be at the Sail MV building at 110 Main street in Vineyard Haven.
On Saturday, April 4. between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., Martha’s Vineyard Community Services will host their 5th Electronics Disposal Day in the agency’s parking lot at 111 Edgartown Road, Oak Bluffs. This event provides residents of Martha’s Vineyard with a location where they can safely get rid off their old computers, monitors, televisions and other “e-waste.” For a small, tax deductible fee, the items are collected and disposed of, with Community Services receiving a portion of proceeds.
Four couples will compete Monday for the chance to buy a three-bedroom affordable housing property in Edgartown.
The house, which is located on a 2,100 square foot lot on 22nd street and will be on sale for $262,000, was bought back by the town after the previous owner died before a ten-year restriction on ownership in his deed was up. Each couple works in Edgartown. One couple, who both live and work in Edgartown, will get two lottery tickets.
The lottery will be held at 5 p.m. in the selectmen’s meeting room at the Edgartown town hall.
While his youthful memories consist of August summers spent sailing the Vineyard Haven harbor, 27-year-old Lieutenant Mason W. Berry collected a different memory late one afternoon last August.
He was flying from Kuwait to Iraq in a sandstorm. The storm winds were clocking over 60 miles per hour. He was piloting a Navy MH-60 Sierra helicopter, and the intent of his mission was to pick up an injured soldier at a base in Iraq and get him to Kuwait and on to a German hospital for much needed care as soon as possible.
Lights Out Martha’s Vineyard? “I saw something on TV about it,” drawled the NStar service representative. When he learned it was scheduled for 8:30 p.m., he scoffed, “You can’t do it on Saturday night. Everyone’s home watching TV.”
That’s the point.
The Oak Bluffs Community Preservation Committee on Tuesday unveiled a list of 10 public projects slated to receive funding this year through the Community Preservation Act, which raises funds through a local real estate surcharge and matched by the state. All the community preservation funding needs final approval by voters at the annual town meeting next month.