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A meeting called to discuss long-range management for the Menemsha Pond system took a surprise turn when a spokesman for the U.S.
Dukes County organizations that focus on preventing or alleviating mental illness among children, adolescents and young adults may be eligible for funding through the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation. The deadline to apply for one of the foundation’s 2013 mental health grants is March 6. For more information on the grant program and how to apply, visit thetowerfoundation.org.
Vineyard commercial fishermen will soon be able to dispose of their fishing gear debris for free through a partnership involving a federal program, Island and off-Island businesses and the Martha’s Vineyard Refuse Disposal and Resource Recovery District. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s program Fishing For Energy aims to cut down on the illegal dumping of debris offshore. The program will run Feb. 27 to March 27.
The federal program has been around since 2008 and has been a success, including on Cape Cod.
The Eagles have landed. In closely-matched, hard-fought games at the middle school basketball championships Tuesday night, the Edgartown School girls’ and boys’ teams both took home trophies.
The middle school boys’ basketball team at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School is a team without walls.
The New England Fishery Management Council dramatically cut landing limits on cod and yellowtail flounder last week for the coming year. Meeting in Portsmouth, N.H. on Wednesday, Jan. 30, the council voted on a plan to reduce the landings of cod in the Gulf of Maine by as much as 77 per cent from the 2012 quota for the next three years, and to cut the landing of Georges Bank cod by 61 per cent from the 2012 quota.
Once the most common fish in the waters around New England, the cod numbers are now so low that they are teetering on the edge of extinction, officials said.