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Residents of Holly Bear Lane in Edgartown wanted to complain about the collection of cars, trucks and boats that they see at the end of their road.
But putting a name to the problem at a Monday meeting of the selectmen proved tricky.
“We came here to express concerns and frustration at the junkyard,” said resident Margot Datz. “Over the years we have shown patience,” she said.
Discussion centered around whether Holly Bear Lane property owner Christopher Chambers is operating a scrap metal business or not.
High-speed ferry service to the Vineyard will be cut significantly next season, under changes approved this week by the Steamship Authority to the Hy-Line schedule.
Hy-Line, which operates the Lady Martha service between Hyannis and Oak Bluffs, will cut back by two round trips per day in the shoulder seasons, and one per day in the high season.
The Massachusetts Nurses Association regional council kicked off the automatic external defibrillators for life program with a $500 donation to Martha’s Vineyard VFW Post 9261.
The new program was started to help purchase AEDs for nonprofit organizations that have 25 or more members. At an event at the VFW last summer, a patron suffered a non -fatal cardiac arrest at the post. The post leadership felt that since they have had two previous such events, that they wanted to have an AED on premises. They purchased an AED and started a drive to offset the cost.
Almost every year, during the Advent Christmas season, I spend some time thinking of Christmas past and how the past may help us celebrate the meaning of this season in the present and in the days to come. The other day, I sat in the silence of my study rereading my Christmas sermons of yesteryear. Each reading took me back to that particular Christmas with a tremendous sense of crispness and clarity. And as I sat there thinking and feeling . . . I could not help wondering if all those words really made any difference to the people who heard them.
It was the last day of shotgun season for deer hunting and the state forest was the place to be to bag a buck before the sun went down. Or a land bank property. Or a private estate, for those with permission.
No hunter would have thought to look inside the old Edgartown School, where one deer was either smart enough or lucky enough to avoid the business end of a shotgun.
While the Martha’s Vineyard Museum continues to stall on the question of shifting its base to the old Edgartown school, selectmen have formally put the historic building back on the market.
Following six months of debate, the museum board of directors Friday voted to ask the town for more time, requesting a one-year option to lease the building for $1.
But that request was denied by the Edgartown selectmen, who voted Monday to prepare a request for proposals for the school, putting the building up for grabs once more.