Edgartown selectmen Tuesday praised a proposal to have the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust take stewardship of the Edgartown library building, possibly transforming the building into a cultural and educational center, if it is replaced by a new library.

Hotel Earns High Praise

The Charlotte Inn in Edgartown continues to attract awards. The luxury Edgartown hotel has been named to British magazine Tatler’s list of 101 Best Hotels in the World. Only eight hotels in the United States were chosen for the list.

The inn also has been included on Forbes Travel Guide’s 54th annual list of five-star and four-star hospitality establishments worldwide, and was chosen as one of the top 30 small resorts in the United States in Conde Nast Traveler’s annual readers’ choice awards.

As the second month of winter sports gets under way, all four regional high school varsity teams maintain their winning records, with boys’ basketball still undefeated.

The boys play Bishop Feehan at home tomorrow at 3 p.m. Girls’ hockey will also be on home ice tomorrow, taking on Hanover/Cohasset at 12:30 p.m.

Who will gather leaves for the children’s craft?

Who will sort the harmless reds from the poison?

Who will fold and unfold the octagonal star?

Who will care less for the flower than for its unfolding?

Who will look at a rock and see a king, a loser, a lost you?

Sylvia-Haveard Benefit

On Saturday, Jan 7, from 6:30 p.m. to midnight there will be a fundraiser for the family of Bethany (Sylvia) Haveard. The event will take place at the P.A. Club in Oak Bluffs and includes appetizers, a cash bar, silent and live auctions, and music featuring Morgan Reltza, Megan LaRoque and guests.

Please Adopt Us

Do you own your own home with a nice fenced-in yard and no other animals? Have you always wanted just one dog? If so, we have a special dog just for you at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard. Her name is Missy and she is a year-old purebred pit bull. Missy is extremely well behaved and loves people, but doesn’t like other dogs. If you would like to come see her, and you fit the bill for adopting her, she will make a wonderful pet.

Jennifer Tseng began her reading at Wednesday’s night’s Speakeasy benefit for the West Tisbury Library held at State Road restaurant with an apology for being morbid. Her poem, When You Are Gone, was in honor of Andrew Jephcote, a “beloved regular and friend” who leaves little found-object sculptures around the library.

Four members of the Martha’s Vineyard masters swim team traveled to the Boston University aquatics and athletic center for the 2011 New England short course metres swim championships in December. The meet saw several New England and national records set. Nearly 400 swimmers from all over the country competed. Leslie Craven and Les Cutler swam the 800-metre freestyle. Leslie was second in the women’s 50 to 54-year-old age group (11.07.29), while Les was third in the men’s 65 to 69-year-old age group (16:48.72).

MARGARET KNIGHT

508-627-8894

(margaret02539@yahoo.com)

Now that the holidays are over, the “crowds” have left and we have the Island to ourselves. It’s a quiet time of year and the Chappaquiddickers still here are settling in for the duration, getting out those indoor projects, big spy thrillers, 1,000 piece puzzles or just breathing a sigh of relief to have made it this far in the year. Or maybe they’re thinking about that trip to somewhere warm where not everything out the window is brown or gray.

JUNE D. MANNING

508-645-2574

(lthslnks2004@yahoo.com)