Student Theatre

A silly buffoon and a whiz kid saving the world will be the featured one-act plays performed by students from the charter school at the Vineyard Playhouse on Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2.

Fundraising Workshop

The Martha’s Vineyard Donors Collaborative is offering a workshop to teach basic grant seeking skills. This introduction to grant writing and research is a two-part workshop to be offered on Monday, April 4 and Tuesday, April 5 at the Oak Bluffs Public Library.

The road to Reuse, Renew, Recycle is always a good turn for the environment but often no more exciting than rinsing out the glass and plastic jars and dumping them in the blue bucket. Stomping down the cardboard boxes gives some measure of satisfaction, and a bit of exercise, but is still a solitary affair.

Leave it to Lani Carney, art teacher extraordinaire working primarily at Featherstone in Oak Bluffs, to raise the bar for all of us.

Wednesday afternoon presented a study in opposites at the small campus just past the blinker on Barnes Road. For the most part, it was quiet outside, a misty spring snowfall dampening most sound.

But from inside the large inflatable dome came the sounds of laughter and a recurring rhythm of thock, thock, thock.

By REMY TUMIN

State police arrested former Massachusetts probation chief Milton Britton Sr. last Friday for cocaine trafficking.

Mr. Britton, 65, was found with three small bags of cocaine in his pocket when police met him exiting his Oak Bluffs home in the Sengekontacket condominiums. According to the police report released this week, a subsequent search of his rooms turned up an additional 36 individually-wrapped cellophane bags in his basement ready for distribution. Police found 39 grams in total.

Three new fellows have been selected for the Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship, a program established in 2006 by the Kohlberg family to further sustainability efforts on the Island; they are Micah Agnoli, Wesley Look and Taza Vercruysse. Vision fellows receive financial support to study and work in a variety of areas vital to a sustainable future for the Island, including renewable energy and alternative transportation, farm to school and sustainable agriculture, conservation biology and fisheries management, green architecture, elderly services and healthcare.

There will be one more beer and wine license in Edgartown this summer, and that has some local business owners uneasy.

Appearing at a public hearing during an Edgartown selectmen’s meeting on Monday, attorney Sean Murphy, representing John Ready of the proposed Edgartown Meat and Fish Market in Post Office Square, said that an additional alcohol license in town would not affect other businesses.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank has signed a contract to purchase 41.1 acres on Chappaquiddick, including some 900 feet of shoreline on Cape Pogue Bay.

The acquisition will be added to its existing Three Ponds Reservation, bringing the total contiguous land area to 357.7 acres.

In an announcement on Monday, the land bank said the land, at the end of Jeffers Lane, would cost $4.95 million. The sellers are Judith Self Murphy, E. Baldwin Self Jr. and Karen Self Osler.

For almost a decade, the two major ferry operators in the Cape and Islands were united in trenchant opposition to Cape Wind. Suddenly though, one operator sees the wind farm as a major tourism opportunity, while the other maintains it is a navigational hazard.

The one that changed position was Hy-Line Cruises, which announced this week that it was partnering with Cape Wind to develop eco-themed tours of the 130-turbine wind farm in Nantucket Sound, both during construction and operation.

The Oak Bluffs clay brick bathhouse withstood the hurricane of 1938 and after its new facelift it should be ready to withstand a few more.

In October voters agreed to spend $200,000 of Community Preservation Act money on the $490,000 project to restore what parks commissioner chairman Nancy Phillips called its “deplorable condition.” The formerly dingy digs will be replaced with new women’s and men’s rooms along with a family bathroom. The property is also being regraded and made handicap accessible.