Calling it a danger to those who skateboard there, an insurance inspector for the town of Oak Bluffs has called for the town skate park on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven road to be closed immediately.

Paul Chipman, senior risk control consultant for the town’s insurance carrier Trident Insurance, sent a letter to town administrator Michael Dutton on March 19 laying out his concerns about hazardous conditions at the park, while recommending it be closed immediately.

Creating sanctuaries and aggressively managing the protection of juveniles are two of the low-cost ways towns can jump-start their bay scallop fishery, according to the results of a five-year study into how to promote the growth of bay scallops in local coastal ponds.

Madeline Ezanno will tell you she’s a little superstitious. So when she found out that as a qualifier for the 250 State Road affordable housing lottery, her applicant number would be 13, she wasn’t thrilled.

But as it turns out, her good luck did eventually kick in. On Tuesday night, the West Tisbury board of selectmen announced Maddie and her husband, Philippe, as the winners of homesite number three. And as it happens, three is her lucky number.

There is at least one coyote living on Martha’s Vineyard. Gus Ben David is 100 per cent sure of that, although he has only 97 per cent proof.

The coyote, or coyotes, have established territory on the north side of the Island, in an area covering part of Chilmark and West Tisbury.

Honor Roll

Maili P. Scott, daughter of Hannah and Jonathan Scott of West Tisbury, has been named to the honor roll at Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield for the 2009 fall semester.

The Scotts are also proud to announce that Maili has been accepted to St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. for the 2010 fall semester.

Dean’s List

Grace Murphy of Vineyard Haven, a senior at Salve Regina University, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2009 semester.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

March 26 59 41 .27

March 27 40 29 .13

March 28 40 24 .00

March 29 49 39 .21

March 30 53 48 .77

March 31 55 42 1.09

April 1 51 43 Trace

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 51º F.

There are a lot of planets visible tonight and through the weekend. Venus appears low in the southwestern sky after sunset. Mercury is underneath it. Mercury is in the zodiacal constellation Pisces, while Venus is in Taurus.

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Well, it was the wettest on record for the Vineyard, with over eight inches of rain. Now that is far less than other parts of the commonwealth, but a lot for us. For the second time in a month the governor declared a state of emergency. The weekend was about 30 degrees colder than the previous week, and the month went out like a lion with a three-day northeast storm.