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An indefinite suspension imposed on the firm laying a private sewer line from the Field Club to the Edgartown sewage treatment plant was lifted yesterday after 48 hours when wastewater, water and highway departments declared satisfaction that the job could be continued safely and within regulations.
Farrissey Telecom, a construction firm hired by the developers of the high-end members-only Field Club, had hit service lines on three occasions during the previous week, breaching contract rules for the excavation work and prompting selectmen to suspend the work.
It is still winter but the Chilmark selectmen on Tuesday had beach business to discuss.
At a public hearing the town beach committee made several requests for change at Lucy Vincent Beach. Selectmen granted three, including a flat rate of $85 for all vehicle beach passes, permission to charge for catered events held at town beaches and a new fee policy for transferred vehicle stickers. “We’re trying to make the beach pay for itself,” said committee member Pam Bunker.
Chilmark’s Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival is seeking couches (no sleepers, please) for its eighth annual weekend movie March 14 to 16. If you have a couch in good condition that you’d let the organizers borrow, they will thank you with three film tickets and a festival gift bag. They will come and pick the couches up on Thursday, March 13, and return them on Monday, March 17. The couches will be covered during the event. Please call Brad Westcott at 508-645-9599, or e-mail him at [email protected] if you can help.
Touring musicians are supposed to say they like the venue they’re about to play.
John Cruz and the Island?
You can’t shut him up.
Vineyard Youth Tennis
Establishes Scholarships
The Vineyard Youth Tennis Center has established a scholarship fund to send deserving and talented children to tennis academies in Florida.
Scott Smith, executive director of Vineyard Youth, came up with the idea.
It was not the slamming of lockers or the shouts of students that filled the hallways of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Monday night. It was the sweet smell of roasting garlic.
Hastily drawn signs with arrows pointing toward the culinary arts department were few and far between. But had they plastered the halls, no one would have noticed. The scent alone was enough to guide anyone with a nose and an appetite.