With town meeting season over, some Islanders gathered with state Sen. Dan Wolf Saturday morning to celebrate all six towns passing resolutions against the Supreme Court Citizens United case.

Part of the Edgartown-West Tisbury road was blocked from traffic Friday afternoon after a car collided with a utility pole, police said.

Around 1 p.m. Friday, a vehicle driven by Carolyn Spengler, 72, of West Tisbury, collided with a utility pole on Edgartown road just past Deep Bottom road, West Tisbury police Corporal Garrison Vieira said. Ms. Spengler was taken to Martha’s Vineyard Hospital with minor injuries.

Mothers are the light that guides us all, so it’s fitting that on this day entrance to the Island’s brightest lights should be offered gratis. The Edgartown Lighthouse will offer free admission for all mothers from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; the Gay Head Lighthouse from 1 to 3 p.m.

The Edgartown Board of Trade is celebrating a new event, the Pink & Green weekend, from May 11 to May 13 with promotions and discounts on pink and green items. The Edgartown Council on Aging will serve a pink and green meal — salmon primavera with snow peas — at the Anchors, and kids are invited to create their own herb gardens at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. There will be crafts at the library, and special Mother’s Day breakfasts or brunches at the Edgartown Inn, Among the Flowers and the Harbor View Hotel.


As erosion inches the Gay Head Lighthouse closer to the edge, the Martha’s Vineyard Museum is moving ahead with a study to assess the urgency of relocating the 156-year-old structure.

The study will take place over the course of three years and provide a “more realistic” prediction of what the long-term needs are for the area, museum director David Nathans said yesterday.

Discount Tickets

Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard is selling season tickets for Martha’s Vineyard Sharks games at a discounted price. Season tickets, normally $100, are $80 if purchased through the hospice. Children’s tickets (under 13 years of age) are also available for $40. Half the proceeds will be donated directly to the hospice.

Individual tickets to the games are $5 per game for adults; tickets for children under 13 are $3 per game.

This is not your parent’s prom.

There are the limo buses that will hit Island streets Saturday night, the online shopping to find the perfect dress (a bonus for Island-bound Vineyard teens), and the inevitable Facebook pictures of the big night.

No matter the differences, though, Vineyard high schoolers will follow in their forebears’ footsteps this Saturday for a teenage rite of passage, the prom.

This year, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School junior prom will be held at the Edgartown Yacht Club from 6 to 10 p.m.

The high school committee this week took a first step toward reestablishing a school resource officer, with an eye toward combining guidance with law enforcement and establishing a positive police role model for students.

At its meeting Monday the district committee voted unanimously to explore creating the position, which would be full time.

LEED House

Squash Meadow Construction Inc. has completed Vineyard Haven’s first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified home. The home, owned by John and Anne Grandin and designed by Sullivan-O’Connor Architects, is the first to be certified by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) in Vineyard Haven. LEED is a rating system that promotes the design and construction of high-performance homes that use less energy, water and natural resources and create less waste. Squash Meadow also built Oak Bluffs first LEED home in 2009.

In an uncommon gesture toward Island fishermen, the state Marine Fisheries Commission brought its monthly business meeting to the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven yesterday afternoon. Beneath the large Stanley Murphy mural paintings of fishing life on the Vineyard, the commission tackled topics that affect the lives of local and state commercial fishermen, such as extending the striped bass fishing season and attempts to resuscitate the ailing herring population.