The ringed planet Saturn hangs high in the evening sky. On one of the clearest evenings the Vineyard has had this month, we had no trouble finding the planet right under the zodiacal constellation Leo. The planet is not as bright as we’ve seen in past years.

Student Wins Internship

Julie Pringle, a Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School junior from Tisbury, has been chosen as one of seven students from the Cape and Islands for a two-week summer internship, Careers in Marine Science.

The students will learn from scientists at many of the Woods Hole science centers, will assist with research on field trips, and will volunteer at the NOAA Woods Hole Science Aquarium.

Tomorrow is the first ever Kids Fishing Jamboree. Youngsters from all over the Island are invited to attend a learn-how-to-fish program and it involves a lot of experienced anglers. Registration is at 8:15 a.m. at the Edgartown School and it is open to all children aged six through 14 years of age. The program is especially open to parents.

The event is sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Surfcasters Association, a nonprofit fishing club dedicated to promoting the sport. They do a number of fishing friendly events and this one is an experiment.

Spring rain and fog did little to dampen the spirits of young anglers and their parents participating in the 35th annual Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club trout tournament early Saturday morning — very early. More than 200 youngsters rose before sunrise to get to Duarte’s Pond in West Tisbury in time for the start at first light.

They came wearing raincoats and rubber boots, bearing cans of worms and artificial bait and laden with fishing gear.

Gas

Gas prices are on the move, and a recent article in the Boston Globe attributes the rise to the approach of Memorial Day and optimism about the economy. Wouldn’t we be more optimistic if gas prices stayed low? The local AAA chapter reports a 22-cent increase in a month’s time as the state average. On the Vineyard we’ve seen an average increase of 18 cents from April to May. This may be the first time the growth in our average cost of anything was lower than the rest of the state.

Concert for Tom Osmers

A benefit concert will be held on Sunday, May 17 for Tom Osmers, the West Tisbury shellfish constable and well-known Island figure who recently became ill. The event will be at the Agricultural Hall from 5 to 10 p.m. A potluck dinner will be followed by live music, including Willie Mason, Jemima James, Nina Violet, Ballyhoo, Squash Meadow and JohnnyHoy. All are welcome; pleas e bring a dish to share.

The results are ready from a national centers for disease control (CDC) study of tick-borne diseases in the Island Wampanoag population, but the outbreak of swine flu may delay their release, the tribe’s environmental health coordinator Cynthia Robinson said this week.

The study is a key feature of a wide-ranging environmental health exposition this Saturday, put on by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Harbor View hotel in Edgartown.

School bullies are moving out of the schoolyard and into cyberspace, making the job of monitoring and curbing abuse more difficult for educators such as Neal Weaver, assistant principal at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.

“You can’t just see a fight in the playground and break it up anymore,” said Mr. Weaver, who handles discipline for the 770 students of the school with the help of fellow assistant principal Carlin Hart.

Oak Bluffs selectmen clashed this week over whether a plan to convert the former town library at the corner of Penacook and Circuit avenue into a pharmacy and affordable housing should be referred to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for review.

The project has been spearheaded by the town affordable housing committee and its chairman Ronald DiOrio, who is also a selectman.

No new hookups will be allowed at the Oak Bluffs wastewater treatment plant until at least next June, due to orders from the state Department of Environmental Protection that relate to the problems with treated effluent seeping to the surface at Ocean Park.