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“Chickens! Are you ready?”
Upstairs at the Vineyard Playhouse on Tuesday, artistic director M.J. Bruder Munafo was calling two actors for their cue.
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
The Martha’s Vineyard Surfcasters Association will hold their annual banquet tomorrow at noon at the Edgartown Whaling Church. More than 100 recreational fishermen are expected to attend the luncheon in the Baylies Room. The event is open to club members and prospective members during this celebration of the club’s 20th year.
Calling Town Democrats
The West Tisbury town Democratic committee is holding a caucus meeting for all registered Democrats residing in West Tisbury on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. at the Howes House. The purpose of the caucus is to select delegates to attend the Massachusetts Democratic convention. A general meeting of the town committee will also be held.
Chilmark’s most diehard scallopers will have a chance to increase the bushel limit in exchange for some community service.
Menemsha seafood retailer Karsten Larsen convinced selectmen at a meeting Tuesday to raise the small pond limits from two to three bushels a day, arguing that those ponds are oversubscribed with small scallops which would die in a freeze and potentially damage the pond bed.
Tisbury firefighters were kept busy this week battling a pair of house fires — one that completely destroyed a home on Codding Lane on Tuesday and another that partially destroyed a home on Spring Hill Road last Friday. No one was injured in either fire, and the cause of both remains under investigation.
The fire at 74 Codding Lane was first reported around 2:50 p.m. on Tuesday. The owner of the home, Lewis Codding, later told firefighters he left home for 20 minutes to go the dump, and returned to find his house completely engulfed in flames.
Additional charges were brought this week against a West Tisbury school teacher who is accused of providing alcohol and pornographic materials to former students and hosting underage drinking parties at his home.
Daniel K. Johnson, 43, of Vineyard Haven was arraigned in Edgartown district court Tuesday on five new charges of furnishing alcohol to minors and one charge of disseminating obscene materials to a minor.