Lauren Thomas of Edgartown won a free green heat contest from Harman Stoves and WoodPellets.com.

The prize, valued at $5,500, includes a Harman Accentra pellet stove and a year’s worth of wood pellets. Nearly 7,000 people entered the online contest.

After woodpellets.com delivered the three tons of pellets to the Thomas’s home in January, Harman shipped the stove to Pyewackets in Vineyard Haven, who worked with Nelson Mechanical to have the stove installed.

In a classic example of saving the best for last, Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School freshmen Tony Canha and Jason Gruner were declared the winners of the school’s 14th annual Linguini Bridge Contest on Monday after 1,500 pounds of crushing metal proved no match for the duo’s lightweight entry into the competition. Their bridge was the final weigh-in of the yearly event, which pits the unassuming combination of Prince linguini, Elmer’s glue and solid engineering strategy against the dual powers of pressure and gravity.

M elissa Breese has long known how to match a piece of art with a collector; she sold her first painting at age 15, working at her parents’ gallery, which they ran for 30 years. “I received quite an education from just learning about what I was always surrounded by,” she recalled, dressed every bit the New Yorker in black leggings, black boots and a grey sweater.

The Nature Conservancy is conducting a controlled burn at the Katama airfield between 1 and 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 20.

Two Vineyard residents were treated for minor injuries after their plane crash-landed between the bridges on Joseph Sylvia State Beach on Saturday night.

Jean Dupon, 67, and Susan King, 45, both of Edgartown, were treated and released from Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, state police trooper David Parent confirmed.

The single-engine Piper aircraft was pointed out to sea, propeller blades slightly bent, no undercarriage evident, with obvious damage under the fuselage but otherwise remarkably intact on state beach on Sunday.

The Island Housing Trust is dramatically increasing its fund-raising as part of its aim to become a self-sufficient organization, after a thorough reexamination of its organization over the past year was prompted by financial fallout at its longtime funding source, the Island Affordable Housing Fund.

Apple Appreciation

Katie Brewer won an Apple i-Pad as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank’s customer appreciation week, when customers and visitors were treated to refreshments and gifts from Feb. 22 to 25 in all eight branches of the financial group.

Each branch held a raffle drawing for a $50 American Express gift card with one winner per branch, and at week’s end one grand prize drawing of an i-Pad.

On Monday the Up-Island School District agreed to grant West Tisbury more representation during the completion of more than $1.5 million worth of repairs to the West Tisbury School in the coming months.

While selectmen had hoped to assemble a formal building committee to oversee the repairs, on Monday they were content to heed the recommendations of the school committee and simply add three members to the school district’s own building committee.

Grants Awarded

Social Media Talk

Mounting a social media strategy can be a tongue tying experience. It’s an essential component to business strategy today and yet the world is still so new the path is foggy at best. This Tuesday, March 22 from the 6 to 8 p.m. the lighthouse blinks through the mist.