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Edgartown police and town officials are looking into whether sea planes are permitted on the Great Pond after neighborhood complaints of a Cessna Skyhawk landing there.
At the selectmen’s meeting Monday, town administrator Pamela Dolby said that over the last few weekends there have been reports of a sea plane landing in the Edgartown Great Pond, at Wilson’s Landing.
“It’s a great concern to people who live in the neighborhood,” Mrs. Dolby said.
Time is of the essence — an age-old adage. Nobody had to tell Rubin Cronig. At just 24 years of age, he has been embodying the mantra since he was 10.
An eight to ten-foot blue shark was spotted meandering the shallow waters of Dogfish Bar in Aquinnah on Saturday afternoon.
Benny Syslo, 20 of Chilmark, was out fishing for striped bass and bluefish with longtime friend Cam Alexander of Vineyard Haven in Mr. Syslo’s 21-foot Carolina Skiff on Saturday. At about 3 p.m., Mr. Syslo spotted the shark swimming close to the surface. The fish came into water as shallow as three feet, he said. They followed it for about a half hour.
Battle of the Islands
Which island is better? In the interest of unbiased reporting, we’ll let the fish do the talking.
This weekend the Martha’s Vineyard Surfcasters soundly defeated the Nantucket Anglers’ Club in the fifth annual Island Cup fishing contest, held June 22 through 24 on Martha’s Vineyard. The catch and release surf casting contest is designed to build friendships and foster friendly competition between the islands. (And what’s better than friendly competition when you win?)
The British came, but this time they were invited. In a replay with a twist of the New England battles that took place almost 236 years ago, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks took on the British National baseball team on Saturday evening.
On Saturday, at the bow of the historic schooner Alabama, Capt. Ian Ridgeway addressed a group of Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School fifth and sixth grade students who had just returned from a five-day sail at sea.
“This is a bond that the 20 or so of us will all have together for the rest of our lives,” he said. “You are now ambassadors for this boat.”