An aggressive and combative wild turkey was shot and killed by a Chilmark police officer last Sunday after it reportedly attacked two people dropping off rental baby equipment at a home on Old Ridge Hill Road and then briefly held them hostage inside their delivery van.

A preliminary report on the Oak Bluffs waterfront completed by an engineering firm hired by the town concludes that a large section of retaining wall near the snack shack along Sea View avenue is unstable and will almost certainly collapse sometime in the future.

The preliminary report from Marion-based CLE Engineering lays out several options to repair the crumbling waterfront, including a plan that would keep the building that houses the snack shack, bathrooms and changing stations.

Fly-Fishing Class

A fly-fishing class for beginning and experienced fishermen will be held Saturday, June 21, from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club in Edgartown.

Sandra Demel and John Kollett will provide individualized casting instruction. Participants also will learn about basic knots, flies, building a leader, and putting gear together. Equipment will be provided or participants may bring their own.

North Water Gallery in Edgartown welcomes all to a champagne celebration to honor Ray Ellis with his first show at the gallery. The reception is tomorrow, Saturday, June 21, from 5 to 7 p.m.

The show will feature many new and never-before-seen works by the 88-year-old painter, including several recent up-Island watercolors, as well as his limited edition prints and signed books. Join in a toast to the artist, who will attend.

Company Marks 100 Years

Chaffee Industrial Roofing of East Providence, R.I., a company with ties to the Vineyard, is celebrating 100 years in business.

Dorothy Chaffee, widow of late owner Henry Chaffee, lives in Edgartown. Steve and Sandy Chaffee, representing the third generation of Chaffees in the business, are seasonal residents of the Island. The company also has done roofing projects on the Vineyard.

A dragon created by art and technology teacher Paul Brisette and his art students at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will fly high and terrorize a young prince as the centerpiece of the Magic Flute scenes in the OperaFest 2008 performance, Saturday, July 26, at 8 p.m. at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs.

A new draft request for proposals (RFP) to improve up-Island cell phone service is complete, but first the three towns that are involved must sign an intermunicipal agreement.

Aquinnah, Chilmark and West Tisbury plan to build a distributed antennae network to improve cell phone service.

Aquinnah town coordinator Jeff Burgoyne said yesterday he plans to have intermunicipal agreement language ready by the weekend for town counsel Ronald H. Rappaport to review. Mr. Rappaport is counsel to all three towns.

Champion golfer Ernie Els will headline the golf offerings at this year’s Possible Dreams Auction, the charitable fund-raising event that benefits Martha’s Vineyard Community Services.

Leaving

How can I bear to leave this place,

take the next boat out into the harbor,

pass the buoy, toss

a penny into the water for a return?

How can I bear leaving after 39 years —

built my own house, planted my garden,

tall-trees design, skylight to watch the evening sky,

see the night flight plane lights

blinking their way across the sea.

The Internet has been around for approx i mately four decades, but a team of Stanford University experts says it’s broken. It’s now in the midst of taking a pull-out-all-the-stops approach to developing a new prototype.

The project is called the Clean Slate Design for the Internet. It’s supposed to answer two questions: how to design a new global communications infrastructure from the ground up, and what will the Internet look like in 15 years.