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Correction
A story about the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima listed the wrong anniversary since that event. The sunrise vigil was in remembrance of the 67th anniversary.
It’s safe to swim in the water — again. That was the word on Seth’s Pond from West Tisbury health agent John Powers Thursday morning, only one day after the freshwater pond had been closed for swimming.
The popular swimming pond off Lambert’s Cove Road has been closed for most of the summer due to high levels of enterococci bacteria, organisms that may indicate the presence of fecal coliform bacteria. Seth’s Pond closed three times throughout June, then again for six weeks in July and August.
Cape Wind, the controversial 130-turbine project slated for construction on Horseshoe Shoal, cleared its final regulatory hurdle this week when the Federal Aviation Administration determined that the project would not pose a hazard to aviation.
On the drawing board for 10 years, Cape Wind is planned to be the country’s largest offshore wind farm, covering 50 square miles in Nantucket Sound.
Welcome Tyson
Leanne and Jade Cash of Oak Bluffs announce the birth of a son, Tyson Wolf Cash, born on August 9 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Tyson weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces at birth.
The family of a well-regarded avid sailor this week formally announced the establishment of a scholarship in his name, the Donald Rappaport Legacy Scholarship. Mr. Rappaport, 84, died a year ago on August 12. His home was in Washington, D.C. and he spent many summers sailing on the Vineyard. While he was very accomplished in his service to the federal government as a former chief financial officer and chief information officer of the U.S. Department of Education under President Bill Clinton, he was best known as a renaissance man, especially here, on the waters of the Vineyard.
Parking in the North Bluff neighborhood of Oak Bluffs was back up for discussion on Tuesday, with several neighborhood residents saying a decision to create diagonal parking was creating safety issues.
Parking on Sea View avenue extension, which runs between the Steamship Authority terminal and the Island Queen ferry terminal, was recently changed from parallel parking to diagonal parking.