Nature & Science
It was never a good idea to bug Johan Christian Fabricius.
The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) are holding a public information meeting in New Bedford today, July 17, about proposed offshore wind energy projects in the Massachusetts-Rhode Island wind energy area.
After nearly two days of foundering in the surf near a remote coastline in Aquinnah with hundreds of gallons of fuel on board, the Sherry Ann, a 46-foot offshore lobster boat out of Westport, was freed from her unwanted rocky berth and towed to a nearby salvage barge Thursday afternoon.
A rare algal bloom has shut down shellfishing in Lake Tashmoo during a week where other Vineyard swimming spots were closed because of bacteria.
Seth’s Pond, the popular swimming hole in West Tisbury, has been closed to swimmers for more than a week because of high levels of enterococcus bacteria. The same bacteria led to a brief closure of Pay Beach in Oak Bluffs.
Starting Wednesday, Lake Tashmoo was closed to shellfishing because of a toxic algae bloom that some said is rare to Vineyard ponds.
Temperature: Precip.
Day Max. Min. Inches.
Fº Fº
July 6 83 64 .00
July 7 88 70 .00
July 8 88 66 .00
July 9 88 69 .00
July 10 82 62 .00
July 11 84 64 .00
July 12 85 56 .00
Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 77º F.
The climate change activist Bill Moomaw believes Henry David Thoreau had it right — living deliberately and simply makes a difference. And like Thoreau, “we have to confront the essential facts of life,” Mr. Moomaw told an overflow crowd at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury on Monday night.
And it starts with awareness about the changing environment.
Almanac
A comprehensive guide to weather and tides on the Island.
Vineyard Gardener
I guess this past week weather-wise is called a January thaw. We did not really experience it the last several years as December was unseasonably warm.
Farm & Field
Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.