Edey Foundation News Today

There’s a new way for Tisbury residents to help keep bodies of water within the town clean. Tisbury Waterways, Inc. announced the launch of the Adopt-a-Drain program, which allows volunteers to monitor and clean a drain, out of the 639 current drains in Tisbury. The nonprofit organization is sponsoring the program through a grant from […]

Members of the board of Friends of Sengekontacket, led by Island resident Ed O’Melia, put up 51 signs along State Beach and at several locations along Sengekontacket Pond.  The posters were designed by students in 3rd through 6th grades at the Edgartown and Oak Bluffs Schools. The annual Carry In/Carry Home project is meant to […]

Team FOS (Friends of Sengekontacket), was hard at work recently, installing this year’s Carry In Carry Home poster winners along State Beach. According to a press release, each year 48 winners are selected among approximately 300 poster contest submissions of third through eighth graders at both Oak Bluffs and Edgartown Schools. The posters are a […]

The Edey Foundation, founded by the late Maitland Edey of Seven Gates Farm, announces funds available for grants to Island nonprofit organizations.  The purpose of the foundation, according to a press release, is to provide money for conservation and environmental programs on Martha’s Vineyard. Submissions that relate to ongoing conservation, energy, education, and scientific studies […]