Over the past month, the old Navigator restaurant that formerly sat in the center of the Edgartown Harbor has steadily been torn down to make way for a new mixed-use building called the Boathouse, that among other things will feature a members-only club on the second floor.

When the new project is completed - perhaps as early as this spring - it will offer a fine dining restaurant, several private dining rooms, a large sitting room with fireplace and cathedral ceilings, as well as new dock area with several classic boats for member use.

Concerned the Vineyard will be locked out of participation in a restored federal fishery, a small group of Island commercial fishermen went to a meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council last month to make their plea for some part of the future pie.

Today only one Island fisherman, Gregory Mayhew of Chilmark, is permitted to pursue cod, haddock and yellowtail in federal waters.

Cheryl Andrews-Maltais believes she has been elected to run a troubled nation.

As chairman of the tribal council for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), that effectively means she is the chief operating officer of a sovereign state, and the public leader of a culture and of a citizenry of 340 on the Island and hundreds more living off Island.

A plan to create a townwide energy district in Aquinnah will come before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for a vote at a special meeting on Monday night.

The commission was scheduled to vote last night on whether to designate a townwide energy district of critical planning concern (DCPC), but the meeting was postponed due to icy weather conditions.

The Monday meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

Meanwhile active discussion about the energy DCPC continues in Aquinnah.

In a town well-known for lengthy and often emotional town meetings, the special town meeting in Oak Bluffs on Tuesday was an anomaly, as voters quickly and quietly approved a wide range of articles including two separate requests for engineering studies of the town waterfront.

Addendum

Sophie Combra was not named in a letter to the editor last week praising the Oak Bluffs tree-lighting ceremony. Sophie, age five, helped throw the switch to light the tree.

Soraya Arrives

Jennifer and Richard Randolph of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a daughter, Soraya Lynn Randolph, born on Dec. 4 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Soraya, who weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces at birth, is also welcomed by big sister Jada Randolph.

Katherine Arrives

Katherine Jackson Greer, great-grandaughter of Ms. Ralston S. Jackson of Edgartown, was born Sept. 29 to Abigail and Ken Greer of Cohasset. She is the grandaughter of Marilyn Jackson Adams and Bill Adams of Quincy. She weighed 9 pounds, 11 ounces. Her sister Molly and brother Will are very excited about their new sister.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank has added another 400 feet to its growing stretch of Atlantic Ocean beach off Moshup Trail in Aquinnah.

The land bank announced this week that it has bought a 4.1-acre lot on the ocean side of Moshup Trail from Sandra and Tatnall Hillman. The purchase price was $400,000. The property abuts the land bank’s Moshup Beach, which now will include some 2,000 feet of shorefront. With the acquisition, the land bank beach will now end a few feet from Philbin Beach, a town resident beach.

The Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School has received the largest private donation ever made to a Vineyard school. Taking the form of a matching grant, the gift will double all money up to $100,000 raised by the school before February 2008. Charter school director of development Paul Karasik said the $200,000 is needed to pay for enlarged classrooms and a modest addition, which will include a new art room and a second bathroom facility at the public school.