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It’s safe to go back in the water again. That was the word on Seth’s Pond from the West Tisbury health agent John Powers Thursday afternoon, one day after the freshwater pond was closed for swimming.
Grand Illumination Night, scheduled for Wednesday evening, has been postponed due to the threat of thunderstorms, the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association board of directors has announced. The annual lighting of the lanterns at the Campground will instead take place Thursday evening.
The event will follow the same format, beginning with a performance by the Vineyard Haven Band at 7:30 p.m., a Community Sing at 8 p.m., and the lighting of the lanterns at 9 p.m.
Following a call by Massachusetts legislators to formally declare the New England fishery a disaster, Gov. Deval Patrick this week urged the federal government to take quick action to provide direct economic relief to Massachusetts commercial fishermen.
“The need for a disaster declaration is more critical than ever,” Governor Patrick wrote in a letter Monday to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank.
Closed again. That was the word on Seth’s Pond from the West Tisbury health agent Wednesday morning, one day after the freshwater pond had been reopened for swimming.
Town health agent John Powers said in an e-mail Wednesday that the pond was closed again due to water test results from Monday.
The popular swimming pond off Lambert’s Cove Road has been closed for most of the summer due to high levels of enterococcus bacteria.
Seth’s Pond in West Tisbury has been reopened for swimming, town board of health agent John Powers confirmed Tuesday morning.
The popular freshwater swimming pond off Lambert’s Cove Road had been closed since July 3 due to high levels of enterococcus bacteria.
On August 9 Mr. Powers said he had five clean water samples that met the state criteria for a geometric mean of levels at or below 33 colony forming units (CFU) per 100 milliliters of water.
After coming from Nantucket to the Vineyard on Wednesday, Cormac Collier first noticed the trees lining the roads that wind through Chilmark.
“We took a little tour on the western side of the Island, and the one thing I was most amazed about was . . . the forests that are here. We definitely have some similarities in terms of geological formations and vegetation, but the amount of mature forests that are here is pretty remarkable. It’s definitely nice to come here, because we don’t have forests like you,” he said.