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The 208-foot ship Thomas Jefferson is surveying the bottom of Vineyard Sound and surrounding waters as part of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s ongoing effort to document the oceans and inland waterways and update nautical charts.
The work is expected to finish this week.
Spokesmen from the Martha’s Vineyard Arena — the Island’s only ice staking rink — appeared before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Thursday with an ambitious plan to build a 165-foot wind turbine that will double as a wireless communications tower that could boost cell phone reception in an area known for poor service.
Bibliophiles Present Books
The Bibliophiles, Inc., the nation’s longest standing, continuously operating African American reading group, will present a gift of 20 books to the Oak Bluffs Public Library. The presentation marks the beginning of the 20th anniversary celebration of the New Jersey-based, not-for-profit book club, and honors four of its retired members.
Crispy vegetable tempura. The Salt and Pepper shaker. Low-fat muffins. These are the things which were not at the first Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair held in West Tisbury 147 years ago.
And here are the things that were: goats for milking, oxen for pulling carts and chickens whose eggs made breakfast in the morning and whose meat went into supper.
Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War will meet Islanders and pre-sent their stories, and their strategies for ending the war, at a special event on Wednesday, August 20, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. They also will take questions.
In the wake of the devastating Independence Day fire that destroyed Café Moxie and badly damaged the Bunch of Grapes bookstore, the U.S. Small Business Administration has made emergency low-interest loans available to small businesses across the Island that were negatively affected by the blaze.