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Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard will hold their annual meeting on Thursday, Dec. 2 at 5:30 p.m. at the Vineyard Housing Office, 346 State Road in Vineyard Haven. It is open to the public. Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard is a nonprofit organization with a mission to build simple, decent housing for families in the lowest qualifying income range.
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Take a reading safari at the Tisbury School library’s annual Scholastic Book Fair, Dec. 1 to 4. Everyone is invited to the sale, which this year has the theme Book Fair Safari. This annual event gives students, teachers, parents and grandparents an opportunity to add to their own libraries. After-school book fair hours are: Monday, Tuesday and Friday (Dec. 1, 2 and 4) from 2:45 to 4 p.m. and Wednesday, Dec. 3 from 2:45 to 7 p.m.
U.S. Navy Cmdr. Joseph B. (Joe) Hornbuckle 3rd is feeling deeply thankful this week. Mr. Hornbuckle, 38, who earlier this year returned from spending six months in Southern Afghanistan, shared his stories of travel with Chilmark schoolchildren on Tuesday. It was also a time for him to say hello and thanks to all his Island friends.
In the latest chapter of what is already a prolonged application process, supporters and opponents of the controversial Bradley Square renovation project emerged last week from nearly two months of negotiations with a revised plan for the project. The changed plan, which now goes back before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for fresh review, includes more on-site parking, smaller buildings and one less affordable housing unit.
After receiving a notice of noncompliance from the state confirming that treated effluent is seeping to the surface at Ocean Park, the Oak Bluffs wastewater commission earlier this month voted to ban all new hookups to the town sewer system until the cause of the effluent problems is identified.
Approximately 12 times a year, the Vineyard is treated to the glory of a full moon dominating the night sky, spilling its light across farm fields, ponds and ocean when the weather is clear. Nov. 13 was the full moon for November, tagged the Beaver Moon by the Old Farmer’s Almanac, that trusty yellow handbook now in its 217th year.
I like the Old Farmer’s Almanac and continue to hold it in high esteem. But the naming of the full moons got me thinking recently, about our beautiful night sky on the Island, inky and unspoiled by light pollution.