Charter School

Monday, Sept. 10: Baked Ham, pasta and vegetable salad, applesauce and milk.

Tuesday, Sept. 11: Tomato vegetable soup, hot dog or tofu dog on a roll, fruit smoothie and milk.

Wednesday, Sept. 12: Salad wraps (chicken Caesar salad or hummus and veggie), banana bread, raisins and milk.

Thursday, Sept. 13: Pizza (plain cheese, pepperoni or roasted veggie), tossed salad, fresh fruit and milk.

Friday, Sept. 14: Beef or bean burrito, lettuce and tomato, salsa, peaches and milk.

A secretary at the Oak Bluffs School has been charged with embezzling more than $15,000 from a school account by forging the principal’s name on several checks and then keeping the money.

Susan T. Peters, 59, of Oak Bluffs, was summonsed last week on charges of larceny by a single scheme over $250, forgery of checks, uttering false checks and larceny over $250.

Approval of a mussel farm permit this week may lead to a collegial effort to clean up Menemsha Pond.

In the process of approving Hollis Smith’s aquaculture permit request, conversation expanded to disclose informal discussions between Chilmark and Aquinnah town officials and Wampanoag tribal members to work together to clean the pond.

Menemsha Pond waters lie in both Chilmark and Aquinnah and have been separately maintained by each town historically. The pond has not been dredged since 1971 and “has been dying for 20 years,” Mr. Smith said.

Permanent Endowment

Invites Grant Applications

The Permanent Endowment Fund, the Island’s community foundation, is accepting grant requests for programs addressing Vineyard needs and issues.

“We have unrestricted funds able to support a wide range of programs being developed and planned by local nonprofit organizations and public charities,” fund chairman Debbie Hale said.

A public forum will be scheduled soon to discuss cleaning up the West Tisbury Mill Pond, allowing residents to participate in a 60-year ritual that has never provided a lasting solution despite some thoughtful, creative and occasionally bizarre proposals.

Mill Pond aesthetics have engendered great passion for three generations since the property was gifted to the town from Donald R. Campbell. Two schools of thought dominate. There are those who consider the pond a priceless jewel and those who consider it a jewel but at what price?

The regular August program of the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club featured Jo-Ann Taylor, the coastal planner for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for the past 16 years, who spoke about threats to water quality on the Vineyard.

In other club developments, Pat Adler and Laura Lee were installed as president and president-elect.