Chilmark is proud of our folk artist Jim Morgan, and happy that the Martha’s Vineyard Museum has opened a show of many of his beautiful weathervanes. An appreciative Chilmarker donated the collection on display to the museum and for that we are grateful. The show will be on display through the month of February. Jim is a retired Menemsha fisherman who has been building models and making weathervanes for many years. They are of Vineyard fishing boats, past and present. I hope you get to see the show.

The lights are burning late at town hall this week as annual budget hearings continue. The public is welcome to attend.

Nomination papers may be obtained from the town clerk at town hall from now until March 8, when they will be due back at town hall with the required 25 or more signatures of registered voters. There are always positions on town boards in need of a volunteer. Check with our town clerk if you would like to donate your time to help run the business of the town of Chilmark.

Applications are being sought for the position of Chilmark cemetery superintendent. Application packets are available at town hall. The cemetery is Abel’s Hill cemetery on South Road.

The town is also seeking applicants for the chief of police position and, again, check town hall for applications.

The board of selectmen will hold a public hearing on a petition for a street license to operate a 15-passenger van for tours along South Road and State Road from West Tisbury to Aquinnah. The hearing will be on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 5:10 p.m. in the selectmen’s meeting room at town hall. The public is invited to attend.

Peter and Sally Cook and George Morgan, all of South Road, traveled to Stonington, Conn. last week for a reunion with past Chilmarkers Seth and Joann Wakeman. The group enjoyed a day of touring Mystic Seaport. They visited the many vessels displayed there, including the Charles W. Morgan and the fishing dragger Roann, both seen recently in our waters.

Sally managed to be on the Vineyard to participate in the demonstration at Five Corners last Saturday. She and Peter are proud to tell us of the activities of their daughter, Liz, of Rosindale, who traveled to Boston to take part in the Women’s March in that city.

The word is out that the Island Food Pantry is in need of donations. The Mansion House is supporting the pantry by offering visit passes to the health club for every five items donated to the pantry. The drive is called Love Your Neighbor. You are invited to drop off and donate five or more items until Valentine’s Day to get one free visit to the health club.

Thomas Bena is happy to tell us that his film, One Big Home, enjoyed a one-week run in Santa Fe. He has a contract now with Cargo Film and Releasing, a New York company that will help him distribute the film. There will be another screening on Nantucket this week with discussion following.

Time has run out on the dredging project in the Menemaha Pond channel. Now the flounder get their chance. Hopefully they will return and do their thing . . . the fish I mean!

There isn’t much more of note happening in Chilmark this week. That, alas, is not the case with the rest of the country. I have never been so proud to be a Massachusetts voter and resident. Otherwise, I think I’d be sleeping under the bed.

Go Pats!

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