By PETER BRANNEN

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School imported an annual tradition from big-time college football recruiting on Wednesday as standout quarterback Randall Jette signed his intention to accept a full scholarship from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst during a ceremony in the high school gymnasium.

Family members and classmates cheered as Jette signed his papers and broke in a fresh new UMass cap on what is known as national signing day.

The owners of the Wave Lengths salon said they will go back to the drawing board after the Edgartown planning board made it clear this week they were unlikely to approve a plan to tear down the Upper Main street building and replace it with two large buildings on the property. At a public hearing on Tuesday night that saw heated argument among planning board members, the board said the new plan fails to meet town zoning requirements for parking in the Upper Main street business district.

At a standing-room-only public hearing, the Edgartown planning board this week heard arguments for and against the proposed Edgartown Meat and Fish Market at the Triangle. Applicant John Ready faced questions about competition, traffic and trash, some of them from neighboring business owners.

A resource for emergency response and safety personnel for over two decades, the DVD-based program Sodium Hydroxide & Potassium Hydroxide has been updated and re­released by the Edgartown company Emergency Film Group.

Sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are the two most widely used caustics, strong alkaline chemicals corrosive to many materials including human tissue. These caustics also have been used in the illegal manufacture of homemade bottle bombs, a recent problem for first responders.

Five doubles teams representing the Vineyard Tennis Center traveled to Falmouth Sports Center to compete in a ladies doubles team competition on Saturday, Jan. 29.

The competition was fierce.

Perhaps exhausted by the choppy ferry ride, the Island team of Doreen Rezendes and Merle Lincoln fell short in a second set tiebreaker 3-6, 6-7.

Vineyarders’ experiences of World War II both at home and overseas are collected in a new book from the Martha’s Vineyard Museum based on its recent exhibition Those Who Serve: Martha’s Vineyard and World War II,

Narratives from interviews with 19 Vineyarders, along with contemporary and archival photographs, are brought together by oral historian Linsey Lee in this book.

Lora Marden to Marry

Lora Marden and Todd Richardson of Quincy are pleased to announce their engagement.

Miss Marden, the daughter of Willard Marden 3rd of Oak Bluffs and Beth Marden of Bridgewater, and granddaughter of Beverly DeSorcy of Edgartown and Willard Marden Jr. of Falmouth, is a 2003 graduate of the University of Rochester. Mr. Richardson, a 2002 graduate of Stonehill College, is the son of Patricia Richardson of Taunton. The couple are both employed by Genzyme in Cambridge.

A May 2011 wedding is planned.

On Monday crews from R.J. Cobb Land Clearing moved into the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest to begin clearing some 90 acres of dead red pine trees that have been blighted in recent decades by the fungus diplodia pinea. The work is part of a larger three-year effort to remove 237 acres of timber that was originally planted as early as 1925 in the forest.

The late Walter Cronkite’s Edgartown down-harbor home was sold this week for $11.3 million to longtime summer residents of Katama David and Karen Brush.

The Green Hollow property is located where the first white men settled for the winter on Martha’s Vineyard in 1632.

Science on Show

The science fair at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will be on Saturday, Feb. 12 at the school cafeteria and library. It is open to the public from 11 a.m. to noon.

Organized by science teacher Jackie Hermann, the science fair will feature projects from more than 100 students. Judges include visiting scientists from on and off-Island.

Judging will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. Awards will be announced at noon. All are welcome to see the students’ work.