Dredging in Vineyard Haven harbor will be postponed until after Labor Day due to broken equipment. The project was scheduled to begin last week and be completed before July. Tisbury town administrator John (Jay) Grande reported at Tuesday’s selectmen’s meeting that the contractor, Barnstable County, had to repair their dredge, causing work to be pushed back.

“It certainly comes as a big bombshell to everyone to learn five days before they were supposed to start that the dredge won’t be operating,” dredge committee member Nevin Sayre said.

A wedding rehearsal fireworks display will be on full view next week in Edgartown.

The town selectmen this week approved an application for fireworks on June 14 at 9 p.m. from a barge off Fuller street beach.

The application was submitted by the Lobianco family, and the fireworks will be for a wedding rehearsal dinner with 190 people.

The West Tisbury selectmen voted this week to approve a request for proposals (RFP) for a study of the Mill Brook watershed. Drafted by the town conservation commission, the RFP seeks consultants qualified “to prepare and deliver a study of the watershed of Mill Brook,” which includes Mill Pond as well as Fisher Pond, Crocker Pond, and Priester’s Pond and several tributaries.
The RFP limits the cost of the proposed study to $15,000, the amount approved by voters at the annual town meeting in April.

Senior girls’ lacrosse captain Alayna Hutchinson smashed the program’s career scoring record this year with 193 goals and 150 assists. Hutchinson finished the season with 65 goals and 30 assists. Senior co-captain Taylor Poggi was second in scoring with 47 goals and 16 assists; junior Molly Wallace had 33 goals and 22 assists. Junior Isabel Smith, the team’s top defender, had 17 and 16 assists. The girls finished the season with a 5-13 record and were 2-4 in the Eastern Athletic Conference.

Brian Weiland is with the band.

Exactly which band is highly variable.

Determining the band or for that matter the instrument Mr. Weiland plays is a little like a game of musical Mad Libs. Drums with The Daytrippers, a Beatles cover band. Mandolin with The Flying Elbows strings group. Guitar with Apocalypso, a self-described CalypsoRock band. Hammered dulcimer with the Misfits of Avalon, a traveling Irish-Celtic ensemble.

A 105-acre greenbelt area around the town of Tisbury will see a small expansion thanks to a purchase by the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank. The land bank announced this week that it has bought a three-acre lot in Tisbury abutting its Wapatequa Woods Reservation.

The planets Venus and Mercury are close buddies this week but they part company later in the month.
    
Venus is easiest to spot, low in the southwestern sky after sunset. Venus is brilliant and above the horizon, amid the light of twilight.

The Art Buchwald Possible Dreams Auction, the summer event that benefits Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, will celebrate its 35th birthday this summer with a new name, a new site, on a new day and date, and with a new auctioneer. For many years, the late humorist and Washington Post columnist Art Buchwald emceed and anchored the annual event

What a wonderful celebration of life my sister in law, Nancy Gardella, gave for her mom Marie Maloney McPartlin. Marie died in January in Florida. Her birthday was June 1, so Nancy traveled to New York with her sister, also named Marie, and son Jonathan.

John Roberts

Valedictorian, is the son of John and Elizabeth Roberts of Oak Bluffs. He will attend Williams College in Williamstown in the fall.

Julia Cooper

Salutatorian, is the daughter of Douglas and Carla Cooper of Edgartown. She will attend Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. in the fall.