Clarissa Allen and Mitchell Posin of the Allen Farm Sheep and Wool Company of Chilmark have been named by the Permanent Endowment Fund of Martha’s Vineyard as the 2008 recipients of the Creative Living Award.

The fund will present the Creative Living Award on August 5 at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

June 27 78 64 Trace

June 28 84 65 Trace

June 29 84 66 Trace

June 30 84 68 .38

July 1 79 66 Trace

July 2 80 65 .00

July 3 81 65 .00

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 73º F.

Aquinnah selectmen voted last week to issue the first beer and wine license in town to the Outermost Inn.

Inn owner Hugh Taylor still must wait for a background check to be completed by the state alcohol beverages control commission, which is expected to take several weeks.

Mr. Taylor was the sole person attending a public hearing last Tuesday conducted by the selectmen.

The developers for the upscale Field Club and adjoining subdivision in Katama have agreed to pay the Edgartown affordable housing committee $1.8 million in lieu of designating three lots in their project for affordable housing as required by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

The project was approved as a development of regional impact (DRI) in 2004 and calls for the construction of a 32-lot subdivision on the 24-acre site as well as a members-only recreational club. Club owners plan to sell 500 memberships for about $100,000 apiece.

The original art and music from a book about the true adventures of a little Vineyard girl who lived aboard her father’s whaling ship will be featured at a West Tisbury gallery opening in July.

Susan Convery Foltz, whose watercolors brought to life the story of Laura Jernegan in Thirty Dirty Sailors and the Little Girl Who Went a-Whaling, will host the opening Saturday, July 5, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., at M.M. Stone Gallery at 671 North Tisbury Road.

The annual Summer Fair of St. Andrew’s Church will be held on the church grounds at the corner of Winter and Summer streets in Edgartown on Thursday, July 17. The fair will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The fair will have many games and entertainment for children. Ample food and soft drinks will be available at the cookout.

One half of the proceeds will go to the Vineyard House. The remaining proceeds will go toward off-Island mission work.

Featherstone Center for the Arts presents its annual fundraiser, Art Under the Stars, on Monday evening, July 7, at Farm Neck on County Road in Oak Bluffs. The evening gets under way at 5:30 p.m. with cocktails and appetizers. The premier event is The Art of Living Auction. The invitation explains it this way: “There is art and artistry in a comfortable home, a thriving garden, a lovingly prepared dinner, a healthy body and time spent enjoying the things that matter with the people who mean the most to us.”

Regional High School

Summer Sessions Begin

A dozen new classes and clinics highlight the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s summer program.

Children’s creative drama with Phyllis Vecchia, clay pottery, arts and crafts, guitar, flash animation, science, and track and field are some of the classes and clinics that will be offered for the first time.

Football, soccer, lacrosse, baseball, tennis and other sports clinics will continue, some with new directors.

Thrift Shop Will Install

Security Cameras at Lot

The Martha’s Vineyard Community Services Thrift Shop plans to install security cameras in an attempt to stop the practice of dumping television sets and other trash in its parking lot while the store is closed.