Ithaca College Honors

Oak Bluffs resident Matthew Fisher was inducted into Ithaca College’s Oracle Honor Society in November. First-year students whose GPA puts them in the top 10 per cent of their school throughout the full academic year are invited into the society.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

Nov. 18 56 36 .27

Nov. 19 51 30 .01

Nov. 20 61 50 Trace

Nov. 21 63 49 .06

Nov. 22 51 31 .00

Nov. 23 61 44 1.94

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 54º F.

Five years ago Mitchell Posin and Clarissa Allen had a vision: of sheep grazing under a windmill that powered their Chilmark farm. It was a vision of a working farm functioning with clean energy, from the grass the sheep ate to the compost tea they helped produce to the wind that spun the turbine.

On Monday morning that vision became reality when a 149-foot turbine was installed at the farm, the largest turbine to date on the Island.

Once it is fully operational, the windmill will produce 125,000 kilowatt hours per year.

For those with a clear view of the western sky, there is a pretty picture tomorrow night after sunset. A thin crescent moon appears next to the bright planet Venus. The two are together just above the horizon for one night only. Look a half hour after sunset, and as the sky darkens, the two celestial objects will begin to shine.

While stores and shoppers brace for Black Friday, the day when crowds clamor for “door-buster” deals and shops open to crowds at midnight, some Vineyard businesses are embracing the ideals behind a day better suited to the Island: Small Business Saturday.

This weekend marks the second annual Small Business Saturday, a movement sponsored by American Express to promote small businesses on the busy shopping weekend.

She stood up to speak in a hushed courtroom, two decades after she had been attacked by her boss in a darkened Edgartown bedroom. Only now, she was not a 15-year-old girl, but an articulate, educated, professional woman.

Twenty years after Chad M. Edward had been convicted of sexual assault charges, sentenced and served his time, he was back in Dukes County Superior Court earlier this month — and so was his victim.

The passage of a bill that legalizes gambling casinos in Massachusetts has renewed hopes among the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) for a casino of their own.

With the flourish of a pen on Tuesday morning, Gov. Deval Patrick signed into law a bill legalizing casino gambling in the commonwealth. One day earlier the two members of the Cape and Islands legislative delegation blasted the move as both socially irresponsible and economically corrosive for the region.

“To me it’s indicative of a rudderless ship,” said state Sen. Dan Wolf. “I look at it as not being good for the district; we both voted against it,” said state Rep. Timothy Madden.

Island Schools Chicken

I suppose that I should be writing about turkeys, but you have had your holiday meal, so I will just remind all of you that the turkeys on Martha’s Vineyard are not wild. They are a cross of domestic turkeys. One flock started at Elisha Smith’s farm in Edgartown and the other at Craig Kingsbury’s farm in Vineyard Haven. No doubt individuals from each have interbred. A true wild turkey is very wily and wouldn’t be caught on someone’s back porch.