When celebrity chef Jamie Oliver found students at an English elementary school eating a quarter-ton of chips each week in lunches that cost less to make than those at nearby prisons, he did something completely unexpected. He signed up as a lunch lady — bringing his fame, culinary skill and television production crew. In the four-episode series that followed, the ebullient Mr. Oliver faced student revolts, cafeterias losing money, and parents smuggling junk food over school fences.

Edgartown wastewater authorities believe a plan to sewer hundreds of homes in the watershed of the Edgartown Great Pond can achieve the 30 per cent reduction in nitrogen pollution required to restore it to health.

A draft report of the Massachusetts Estuaries Project, obtained and published by the Gazette last week, finds the Great Pond’s water quality is significantly affected by heavy nitrogen loading. The biggest single contributor to the problem is household septic systems, the report found.

In a classic double bind, Edgartown will need to rely on voter turnout to reduce the number of voters required for future quorums at town meetings. The quorum question will form part of a special town meeting on Tuesday night.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Old Whaling Church and will be moderated by Philip J. Norton Jr.

Apologies to Ethan

An announcement in last week’s Gazette provided incorrect information about a son born to Scott and Lila DiBiaso of West Tisbury. The DiBiasos have announced the birth of a son, Ethan Ryder DiBiaso, born on Nov. 10 at Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Ethan weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce. Big brother Owen welcomes Ethan.

The Gazette regrets the error.

Receives Degree

Patrick Rolston of Vineyard Haven received a degree in marketing in May from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I.

After a slow start due to poor weather, the shotgun season for deer is in full swing.

As of Wednesday afternoon — the third day of the two-week shotgun season — a total of 67 deer had been checked in at the station at Manuel F. Correllus State Forest, while 35 had been checked in at the Wampanoag tribe station in Aquinnah.

Through the first week of shotgun season last year, by comparison, 200 deer were checked in at the state forest and 122 were checked in with the tribe.

A fast-moving fire swept through Deon';s restaurant on State Road in North Tisbury on Sunday night, completely destroying a preparation area in the rear of the building and causing severe structural and smoke damage to the kitchen and dining area.

Owners of the year-round restaurant said the eatery would be closed for repairs until at least the spring and may not reopen until summer.

The state fire marshall announced yesterday that the fire was caused by a wall heater in the preparation area at the rear of the restaurant.

A wind turbine project in West Tisbury hit a snag recently when a town committee that has been shepherding the project discovered that it had tapped the wrong group to prepare an application for a $40,000 state feasibility study.

The wind energy committee learned that because the turbines are planned for the West Tisbury School, the grant application to the Massachusetts Collaborative Technology Project must come from the Up-Island School District, not the town.

Outerland, the Island’s main music venue, will close Jan. 1 and not reopen again until spring.

Outerland owner Barry Rosenthal came before the Edgartown selectmen on Monday to request a change in his liquor license from year-round to seasonal, one month after he had been granted permission to shift from seasonal to year-round. He said his reasons are strictly financial. “It has been bleeding money since September,” Mr. Rosenthal said.

Correction

A Nov. 16 story in the Gazette about the sale of Thimble Farm reported inaccurately on the farm’s status in 2000 after former owners Bencion and Patricia Moskow sold the development rights to the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank. The farm remained in continuous operation until it was sold to Lawrence Benson in 2002. The Gazette regrets the error.