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An ambitious state solar energy program has reached its goal four years ahead of schedule, leaving questions about whether some projects on the Vin
Oak Bluffs package stores may now stay open until 11 p.m., following a vote by the town selectmen Tuesday. Previously the stores had closed at 10 p.m., while Edgartown liquor stores remained open an extra hour. The request to delay closing came from the owners of the package stores, who wished for a more level playing field with their Edgartown competition, selectman Michael Santoro said.
Building on Vineyard Haven’s recent selection as one of 12 nationally designated small town ArtPlaces for 2013, the community is invited to a public hearing to determine if the town of Tisbury should apply for a state-designated cultural district and adopt a Vineyard Haven Harbor Cultural District resolution. The Vineyard Haven Harbor Cultural District Partnership is looking for public input regarding the designation. The hearing is on Tuesday, June 18 at 6 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre, 54 Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
The Tisbury town hall was briefly evacuated Friday afternoon after officials received a suspicious letter that police described as "ranting" but not particularly worrisome.
The letter contained no "particular threat to anybody or any town," Tisbury police Sgt. Timothy Stobie said, and the building was evacuated out of an abundance of caution.
Over the next year, a million tiny pioneers will arrive at Sengekontacket Pond. Simply by growing from the size of a pencil eraser to a full three inches, a million oysters are the key part of a project launched by Oak Bluffs and Edgartown to cultivate the shellfish in Sengekontacket, which has been found to have nitrogen levels well above acceptable limits.
Part of the Tisbury Great Pond is about to become an oyster reef, thanks to a project sponsored by The Nature Conservancy and the towns of Chilmark and West Tisbury.
The propagation projects calls for putting down 100 cubic yards of sea clam shells as culch and then planting 250,000 juvenile oysters.