Remy Tumin
Island boards of health are encouraging Vineyarders to take extra precaution and receive free vaccinations at clinics scheduled for this weekend.
The drive-through clinics are today from 9 a.m. to noon at the West Tisbury School and Waban Park in Oak Bluffs.
She’s had her first 100 days, her first summer — including her first Possible Dreams Auction — and now Martha’s Vineyard Community Services executive director Juliette Fay is settling into the rhythms of year-round Island life. And she has some observations.
“What I’ve learned is that this is a very remarkable community,” Ms. Fay said this week.
The West Tisbury selectmen adopted a new policy about use of town stationery this week after one selectman used the stationery without the consent of his colleagues.
In early October selectman and board chairman Richard Knabel sent a letter to the Cape and Vineyard Electric Cooperative and Cape Light Compact about the town’s upcoming solar panel installation. Mr. Knabel, a longtime critic of the electric cooperative, expressed concern that the town might bear future financial responsibility for the panels, among other things.
Rick Karney had a message for diners at a Slow Food event this week: Eat more oysters.
“Its’ an industry that cleans the water, creates a sustainable food product and creates habitat,” said the longtime director of the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group. “In order for this industry to flourish, we have to put more in . . . as you eat your oysters tonight, they’re not only good but they’re doing a good thing for the environment.”
It’s the time of year when dressing up in your alter ego superman character is embraced, when candy corn makes an appearance and ghosts come out to play. And on the Vineyard, Halloween is a weeklong event, just as it should be.
Celebrations begin Friday night at Alex’s Place with a middle school dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Costume contests, prizes, black lights and a full light show are in order.
On Saturday, Oct. 26 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Edgartown businesses say yes to trick-or-treating.
Once carved into tiny lots and peddled as a promotion for a 19th century tonic, the 100-acre tract known as the Medicine Lots has been placed in permanent conservation thanks to a purchase completed last month by TNC.