A power boat exiting Lake Tashmoo Sunday afternoon sustained heavy damage after it collided with a sailboat also exiting the narrow channel. Nobody was injured in the collision and both vessels were brought safely back into the harbor, although the power boat sustained extensive damage to its hull above the water line.

Tisbury harbor master Jay Wilbur said the 30-foot motor boat Sally Forth was exiting the harbor when it ran head-first into the 22-foot sailboat Beer Nuts. The sailboat was under full sail at the time of collision and had the right of way.

Welcome Yury

Aline Honorato and Paul DeMoraes of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Yury Da Silva DeMoraes, on June 16 at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Yury weighed 7 pounds, 3.8 ounces at birth.

Coffee grinds, apple cores and curly orange carrot peels: straight to the trash they go in most households. But on Island farms, these food scraps (along with egg shells, wilted greens and watermelon seeds) go to the compost. For the farmers, this trash is treasure.

“It’s like crop insurance,” explained Jim Athearn of Morning Glory Farm last week as he stepped down from his tractor.

Piglets Born

Purebred Berkshire piglets were born Monday, June 23 at Native Earth Teaching Farm at 94 North Road in Chilmark. People may see the piglets and their mother Clover during the farm’s visiting hours, which are Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. More information is available by calling at 508-645-3304, or visiting nativeearthteachingfarm.org.

Selectmen in the three up-Island towns agreed last week to form a five-member board of overseers and rewrite a request for proposals for a planned distributed antennae system aimed at improving cellular telephone service.

At a meeting Friday selectmen from the three towns said they would keep working toward an intermunicipal agreement.

Suits and gowns floated around a crowded room at the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown Friday night, their occupants casually inspecting the art that covered the tables. Occasionally they’d put their cocktails down to sign their names next to a price.

Chris Rasmussen moved with more purpose, weaving through the dapper group, making sure everything was in the right place.

Art for Kids

Art for Kids with Mickey Stone is a new program at the M.M. Stone Gallery at 671 State Road in West Tisbury. Opening this week, weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., the summer season offers classical art classes in drawing, painting, sculpture and design.

Make a reservation or just drop in. Cost is $15 an hour per student with all materials included. For details, call 508-693-0396 or e-mail mmstone@vineyard.net.

Tennis Center Change

Ken Martin, co-founder of the Vineyard Tennis Center, Workout and Spa, is stepping aside in the coming weeks after a 12-year partnership with Connie McHugh. Ms. McHugh will then assume full ownership.

Mr. Martin designed and has maintained the tennis and health club facility since 1996. His vision and direction have resulted in the club receiving the “Best of the Vineyard” award for four consecutive years.

He will continue to be an active tennis player and fitness member.

Please Don’t Feed the Turkeys

The bizarre Father’s Day incident in Chilmark in which a turkey attacked people delivering baby equipment and then two town police officers — an episode that ended with the turkey dead and its owner facing assault charges — has drawn chuckles across the Island.

At its core, however, the episode is no laughing matter and the outcome could have been worse.

A Dancer’s Legacy

Pretty straw hats hung in the trees on Saturday afternoon at The Yard, a quiet adornment to the hushed, leafy campus off Middle Road in Chilmark that has served as a summer colony and retreat for dancers and choreographers for thirty five years. A small crowd gathered to remember the life of Patricia Nanon, the woman who created this place which is the Vineyard’s Jacob’s Pillow.