Correction

A story in last week’s Gazette about the high school swim team was inaccurate in its history reporting. There was a swim team on the Vineyard in the 1970s that traveled off-Island for meets and practiced in the pool at the hotel that is today the Mansion House. The Gazette regrets the error.

Two Chilmark farms were recently granted permits for large-scale wind turbines under a presumed agricultural use exemption. Abutters have asked the zoning board of appeals to review the permits, calling for more thought and a public process.

Current Chilmark zoning bylaws prohibit the zoning board of appeals from issuing special permits for such turbines over an abutter’s objection — and/or if the turbine does not “preserve and enhance existing . . . natural features as well as vistas, water views and historic locations . . .”

By SUSAN KLEIN

Having lived a full life, Barbara Lipke was many things to many people. In addition to wife, mother, educator and author, she was also a storyteller. Her beguilingly gentle telling style would erupt into something bolder and humorous, delighting her listeners and showcasing her considerable skills.

Did you know that the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School has a Brazilian history class? Well, we do! The whole purpose of this class is to teach students who came to the U.S. at a very young age the main points about their home country. It’s not only about learning history, but the class teaches students to work together and develop a way of showing everyone that Brazilians are not as bad as they think we are. So far, we have been a successful class. We have been on task and have been able to achieve our goals.

Far from the Island's shoreline lies a harbor in the woods. Edgartown's innermost harbor has all the elements of a waterfront, minus the water, the swift-moving currents and high-priced real estate.

LETTER FROM HAITI

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

Three well-known Vineyard residents will be recognized for outstanding community service and a noted author and history professor will deliver the keynote address at the 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. membership and awards dinner on Monday night, Jan. 17 at the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown.

The annual event is sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard branch of the NAACP.

I am not what is generally considered a Y person. However, my recent gluttony over the holidays, spurred by an errant early New Year’s resolution, necessitated some kind of serious intervention. The Y seemed a likely option.

Sharks Name Coach

Ted Currle has been named head coach of the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League for the 2011 season. Previously, Mr. Currle spent eight seasons as an assistant coach in circuits in Virginia and Maryland. He is currently the head baseball and football coach at Norton High School in Norton, Mass.

Tonight at 5:30 p.m. the Shabbat Service at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center will pay homage to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his friend and colleague Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. This is the 13th year that the Martha’s Vineyard Chapter of the NAACP and the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center will cosponsor this tribute. Rabbi Caryn Broitman will lead the service.