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Island Library Amnesty
All six Island libraries have declared an amnesty on overdue material fines from Dec. 17 to 30. Instead of fines, the libraries will be collecting canned goods for the Island Food Pantry. Patrons who return overdue materials during this period will not be charged fines if they make a non-perishable food donation.
The Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association has named Robert E. Clermont its new general manager and executive director.
Mr. Clermont brings 35 years of business management and community involvement experience to the association. He and his family have been residents of Edgartown for the past 19 years. During this time Mr. Clermont served first as the general manager, then owner of Adventure Rentals, Inc.
Yo-yoing, a fishing technique commonly used by commercial striped bass fishermen in Massachusetts and elsewhere, should be outlawed, according to Brad Burns, president of Stripers Forever, a national nonprofit organization that advocates treating striped bass as a game fish in state waters.
Divisiveness continues to plague attempts by Vineyard officials to reach consensus on a way to fund the Island’s regional high school.
On Monday, the high school assessment committee — a group established in July this year to find an answer to an unpopular, state-imposed school taxation formula — met at the school to address the issue.
Just as the first snows arrived on the Island yesterday, other signs of winter were in evidence around the Island this past week.
In addition to Christmas sales and plastic lawn Santas, the young athletes of the Vineyard could be found practicing their jumpers and perfecting their slap shots, as the high school sports scene moved from the autumnal fields of soccer and football inside to the cozy confines of ice rinks and basketball courts.
On the eve of the black powder deer season, Island marksmen participated in the Martha’s Vineyard Rod & Gun Club Black Powder Shoot Sunday.
In the open sight division, Nicholas Giliberto, 15, of Vineyard Haven bested marksmen with considerably more experience. Nicholas had a high score of 61.
The young Island student hit two eight marks in the standing deer category; an eight and ten mark in the running deer, and shot an eight, reloaded in 68 seconds and shot a ten in the reload portion of the contest.