Who’s Over the Hill?

Little League

Richie Bartlett of the Orioles hit a grand slam during Saturday’s game against the Reds, but the Orioles were nonetheless outslugged 11-9.

Ben Peters threw three scoreless innings for the Marlins in his pitching debut, helping his team to a 14-3 victory over the Rays. The Rays came back in their next game, however, winning 16-12 against the Orioles. Andrew Morehead and Keaton Aliberti of the Rays had seven strikeouts between them.

The Twins remain undefeated after three games.

Expect the fields at the regional high school to be busy this week, with 10 home games being played between now and next Thursday.

It’s a cold and rainy spring day on the Island as AmeriCorps National Community Civilian Corps (NCCC) team Raven One breaks for lunch around a table at the Farm Institute in Katama. Dressed in cargo pants, black work boots and gray sweatshirts bearing the AmeriCorps logo, these nine young corps members have been on the Island for about two weeks working on projects to support a variety of local nonprofit organizations.

It’s hard to imagine warm summer nights on these cold spring days, but they’re coming.

And in less than a month, the new collegiate baseball team, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks, will take to the field at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

To warm up the Vineyard crowd, the Sharks will have a fundraiser dinner for the field and Vineyard baseball on Saturday at Sharky’s Cantina in Edgartown with former Red Sox player Bill Buckner. The dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $45.

Just what does a duck see when peering down from the sky at a decoy floating on the water? Sometimes it sees, to its detriment, a friend to nestle down with. Other times it perceives the shoddy workmanship; the chipping paint, overlarge eyes or lilt of tail far removed from the likes of its brethren. The duck in this case keeps right on flying.

And then, perhaps just once in many, many decades, there is a vision floating out there on the water. A vision of a decoy so perfect and unique that the wild duck reaches deep into its feathers and pulls out $22,425.

Harvard Degree

Harvard University will award a special posthumous degree to Joel Iacoomes, a member of the Wampanoag tribe who died in 1665, shortly after having completed four years of study in Harvard College but just before he was to participate in commencement.

The recognition will be part of the university’s 2011 commencement exercises on May 26.

Mr. Iacoomes was one of the two original Wampanoag students at Harvard. His classmate and fellow Wampanoag, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, graduated from Harvard in 1665.

Gazette Open House

Chilmark Energy Star

The first of the Middle Line Road affordable housing units, owned by Chip and Michele Leonardi and built by Squash Meadow Construction, Inc., has received certification as an Energy Star Version 2 qualified home. This means that after undergoing rigorous testing, the house meets or exceeds strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Senator Wolf Here Today

Cape and Islands Sen. Dan Wolf will hold office hours on the Vineyard today from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the meeting room at the Oak Bluffs police station. To schedule an appointment call 617-722-1570. At 3:30 p.m. Mr. Wolf will meet with the all-Island selectmen, also at the police station.