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Flying Horses Fly Again
The Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs opens its doors for its 137th season tomorrow, Saturday, April 7, at 11 a.m.
With a flick of a few switches, the building will come out of winter hibernation, animated by neon lights and horses and chariots spinning round and round to the tunes of the 1923 Wurlitzer Band Organ.
There can be an aura around musicians, an impenetrable mystique. But for Phil daRosa sitting behind the soundboard at his new recording studio, the Print Shop, humming a tune here and there, spitting a beat every so often, there was none of that.
“I’ve never been down with that approach, both [on the Vineyard] and in the industry,” he said. “This facade that’s untouchable and unaccessible – whatever. We’re all doing the same thing, why even have that whole vibe?”
Smoke may be visible over the Vineyard’s south coast throughout the day on Thursday as Vineyard fire officials conduct a controlled burn at Long Po
The long trial that pitted Cessna Aircraft Company against a pilot who suffered crippling injuries in a 2005 plane crash at Katama airfield ended abruptly Wednesday in a confidential settlement, lawyers said.
After nearly a month of testimony and on the eve of closing arguments, lawyers conferred during a sidebar with Dukes county superior court Judge Cornelius Moriarty 2nd and Alec Naiman, pilot of the Cessna 172-N plane that crashed on June 23, 2005.
Chilmark selectmen will appeal the U.S. Coast Guard’s denial of the town’s insurance claim for the Menemsha boathouse, the board decided Tuesday night.
Tisbury voters turned out but not quite strongly enough, falling eight shy of a quorum at a special town meeting on Tuesday night. Town moderator Deborah Medders sent the 92 voters home; 100 were needed to conduct the meeting, which has now been rescheduled for the start of next Tuesday’s annual town meeting.