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You really need a plan if you’re venturing out this weekend. More than a plan — a strategy. And sustenance — no, on second thought you can just work stops for free snacks into your strategy. But sneakers might be a good idea, for sprinting between events during this, the annual Christmas in Edgartown weekend extravaganza.
Or maybe just forget all that and take a sanguine, Santa’s-coming-to-town approach to walking around the whaling captain’s village for the whole weekend.
Tomorrow’s 24th annual great chowder contest is about more than a good cup of steaming, milky soup brimming with clams and potatoes. The contest raises money for The Red Stocking Fund.
The event begins at noon tomorrow at the Edgartown Mini Park.
The committee that organizes the event is still deliberating about whether to raise the entry fee above last year’s $5. At press time there still had been no decision.
Edgartown will consider making it mandatory for hundreds of residents in the watershed of the Edgartown Great Pond to hook up to a new town sewer line, following recommendations of a study into pollution of the pond.
The final report of the Massachusetts Estuaries Project (MEP), released this week, finds that most of the 890-acre pond is moderately or significantly impaired by high levels of nitrogen, which poses a threat to eelgrass, shellfish and fish.
Across about 40 acres of forest land at Polly Hill Arboretum, some 40 per cent of the oak trees are dead. Just like tens of thousands of trees on other conservation, town and private land across Martha’s Vineyard.
Maybe enough trees to cover 1,000 acres, if you put them altogether, have died off in the past couple of years. That’s a big dying on a small Island.
The Bank of Martha’s Vineyard, Donoroma’s and Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard will join together this holiday season to present a Tree of Remembrance to the Island community. The tree will stand on the Tisbury town dock at Owen Park to offer understanding that holidays and other special occasions are often difficult for those who grieve.
Brad Fligor is a captain who steers the three-car ferry that plies the narrow channel between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick.
He has never considered himself a national security risk.
But under a new set of little-known Homeland Security regulations passed by Congress, Mr. Fligor has had to go through a rigorous background check to acquire an identification card from the federal government. The card, the size of a credit card, is called a Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC for short.