Opponents to the Cape Wind project have suffered another setback, with a new court ruling dismissing a series of complaints related to the state’s jurisdiction in assessing the project.

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Robert Kane ruled in favor of Cape Wind Associates, and struck down four of five counts brought by the town of Barnstable, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound and a group of individuals, who had claimed the state’s review of the project’s impact was inadequate.

After hearing recent complaints about a lack of information, the national company hosting a concert this summer in Ocean Park featuring the Boston Pops released final information about the event last week. The information provides ticket prices and a list of scheduled performers that includes both national and Island acts.

Aquinnah selectmen last Friday set a special town meeting for August 7 to reconsider a bylaw for the Island’s first energy district of critical planning concern.

The bylaw, which would regulate alternative energy use in town, specifically the use of wind power, failed to achieve a two-thirds majority vote by four votes at the annual town meeting on July 19.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission designated the energy DCPC in December of 2008. A townwide building moratorium remains in place pending a vote on the energy bylaw.

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.