Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

May 16 67 48 .00

May 17 59 47 1.01

May 18 68 50 .01

May 19 69 50 .08

May 20 61 45 Trace

May 21 59 45 .50

May 22 65 50 Trace

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 58º F.

Semester Abroad

Sarah Greenberg of West Tisbury participated in the Washington Semester Abroad at American University. Ms. Greenberg, a student at Tufts University, took part in the American politics program.

The program offers undergraduate students from throughout the United States and the world an opportunity to come to the nation’s capital to study government through first-hand experience and contact with political, business and community leaders.

Teen Tribal Dinner

The Wampanoag Youth Group will be sponsoring a spaghetti dinner today, Friday, May 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the tribal building at 20 Black Brook Road in Aquinnah.

There will be traditional song and dance with the Black Brook Singers and youth dancers. Vineyard businesses and artisans have donated gifts for a silent auction. The group will be selling their T-shirts and sweatshirts, among other items.

Edgartown library staffers were stepping over wet cement this week in an effort to ready the old Carnegie building on North Water street for its official reopening next Tuesday.

The sidewalk under repair is one thing that is not their problem — town highway superintendent Stuart Fuller is in charge of that project — but they have had their share of problems following last year’s furnace puffback incident. The building was closed in early December after a burst furnace covered much of the furniture, upholstery and stock in an oily vapor.

The Martha’s Vineyard Commission last week again reviewed revised plans for the controversial three-story garage built along the North Bluff in Oak Bluffs in 2003 without a permit.

The story behind the three-story garage is by now familiar and dates back to November of 2003 when Mr. Moujabber received a town building permit to replace an existing small garage on his Sea View avenue extension property. In less than six months the project grew into a three-story building with multiple balconies, sliding glass doors and a roof deck.

A former commissioner of marine resources in the state of Maine recently told a gathering of Island fishermen that there is plenty they can do to regain control of the troubled fisheries in Massachusetts.

Robin Alden spoke at the Chilmark Public Library earlier this month about how fishermen need to come together on the local level and step forward as a concerned group.

“Even in a small community like this, I think it can work,” she said, though she added: “You are not going to win overnight.”

Although the regular spring sports season for high school athletics is inching to a close, several teams will be starting a second season this week when they play in the opening round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament.

April and May so far have brought the Island a mixed weather bag that has included blustery ocean storms, drizzly weekends and that relatively unusual Vineyard occurrence, springlike weather in the spring.

Winter on the Island generally tends to go right into summer. But this spring has pleasantly surprised Vineyarders with spates of mild, sunny days.

The organizer of the Monster Shark Tournament this week announced that he had withdrawn his application to use Washington Park as the headquarters for the three-day event and instead had set his sights on securing a private venue for the tournament’s opening and closing ceremonies.

Steven James, president of the Boston Big Game Fishing Club, told the Gazette this week he had withdrawn his application to put up a tent with capacity for 900 on Washington Park that would be used for the tournament’s Captain’s Banquet and closing ceremonies.

The town of Gosnold is divided into two districts. The first covers a tiny knot of municipal buildings at the center of Cuttyhunk; the second is the sparsely populated remainder of what is also known as the Elizabeth Islands.