News
Tisbury police arrested two Bridgewater men this week for attempting to steal a 1,000-pound lead sailboat keel.
Corey M. Dechaine, 19 and James Carroll McFarland, 21, were apprehended in broad daylight on Monday on property off Oak Hill Road used by Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway for the storage of boat parts.
By PETER BRANNEN
Ted Bayne approached one of the signature hilly turns on Lambert’s Cove Road and hit the — well, not the gas.
“If you turn off eco-mode, this thing screams,” he said.
Pulling G forces in an all-electric car, you are quickly disabused of the notion that going green means sacrificing performance.
Please Adopt Us
Our featured animals this week are all the beautiful cats at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard who need to find new homes. All are beautiful, well-behaved and very well-socialized, thanks to our great volunteers who spend hours with each cat in our wonderful new rocking chair.
The West Tisbury Library Foundation, Inc. announced this week that it had surpassed an important milestone in its capital campaign: the state requirement of raising $902,000 in private matching funds by Jan. 31. “We’re pleased that our campaign so far has received more than $1.3 million in private donations,” said Hunter Moorman, chair of the foundation. He added, however, the campaign must still meet the town’s fund-raising goal as well.
Town leaders in Tisbury and Oak Bluffs had their first look at the drawings for a permanent Lagoon Pond drawbridge last week.
The drawings were on display during a meeting at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission office in Oak Bluffs. The federally-funded $28.5 million project is expected to take three years to build; construction bids are slated to be advertised in the fall.
Help is on the way to improve water circulation in Farm Pond in Oak Bluffs.
The town learned this week that it had received an $80,000 grant to complete the engineering and permitting for a wider culvert, intended to help restore the health of the pond by allowing a greater exchange with the sea.