Julienne Turner has taken the helm at MVTV as station manager and executive director, bringing more than a decade of community television experience at stations in Hawaii, Oregon and New Hampshire.

She aims to demystify the technical world behind the scenes of television production and empowering members to create their own content.

By MEGAN DOOLEY

Chilmark selectmen were forced to accept the higher of two bids for the construction of three affordable housing rental duplexes at Middle Line Road, after the low bidder was disqualified this week.

Selectmen voted to accept the $1.9 million bid from Seaver Construction of Woburn on Tuesday night. The winning bid was some $33,000 higher than the second and only other bid submitted.

The Rev. Anne Brewer will be the guest preacher at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs this Sunday at 10 a.m.

The title of Dr. Brewer’s sermon is And Who is my Neighbor? based on the theme of Therefore Choose Life. Her scriptural references are: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 and Luke 10:25-37.

The music of the Star-Spangled Banner gave way to the sounds of emcee Allen (Deejay Lefty) Pires’s turntable as the eighth annual Vineyard Streetball Classic got underway this Saturday in Niantic Park in Oak Bluffs. For the next five hours, would-be NBA stars from 14 teams — six from the age 10 to 12 division and four each in the age 13 to 14 and 15 to 18 — battled through round robin and double elimination play before the two strongest sides met in each division’s final championship game.

Announcing Anthony

Cristina Rodrigues and Renato de Oliveira Souza of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Anthony Yan Rodrigues Souza, on June 19 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Anthony weighed 8 pounds 15.6 ounces at birth.

Hello, Olsen

Kristin Emily Hall and Andy Joseph Estrella of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Olsen Michael Joseph Estrella, born on July 3, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Olsen weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces at birth.

After six previous disappointments, Marie Meyer-Barton’s luck finally changed on Tuesday evening, and she was a winner in an affordable housing lottery.

But her tears were not only of joy. Her best friend was one of those who missed out on the right to buy one of the four affordable housing units at Lambert’s Cove, by chance.

“It’s just incredible that we finally won one,” she said afterwards. “But it’s really hard to watch, too, because these people who missed out are our friends.

It fills your shoes, ruins the kitchen floor in the summer and gets in your food at picnics.

But whoever thought of sand as a commodity?

On the Vineyard sand is emerging as exactly that, right up there with gold futures and pork bellies, as towns and private groups compete to get their hands on the stuff to use as ammunition in their ongoing battle against erosion.

The value of sand has skyrocketed, and given all the predictions that global warming will cause a rise in sea levels, it’s unlikely to come down anytime soon.

It was so hot this week that even the waves at Joseph Sylvia State Beach looked limp. A heavy haze rested on the horizon, matched only by the wall of heat and humidity that hit anyone who ventured outdoors, leaving some short of breath. The heat put a strain on the power supply, and on Monday and Tuesday there were widepsread brownouts and blackouts.

A Melrose woman who took a trip to the Vineyard for the day with her husband, friends and young family, was killed in a grisly accident on Tuesday afternoon when she fell from her bike on State Road in Vineyard Haven into the path of an oncoming tractor trailer.