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It’s been said that we might need a bigger Island, and in August few can argue with that. Now you can add Jawsfest: The Tribute to your August planning calendar, a special four-day series of events that will explore just about every aspect of the making of the movie Jaws. And as they did in 2005 for the first Jawsfest on the Vineyard, Jaws afficionados from around the world are expected to travel to this festival.
Please Adopt Us
Sadly, the holidays are not the happiest time for all the beautiful cats at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard who need new homes. This is especially true for our featured cat his week. Nomar was surrendered to the shelter by a wonderful, caring owner who had to give him up because she must to return to Chile and can’t take him with her. He is beautiful, a Himalayan with lovely blue eyes and a soft coat who has won over the hearts of all at the shelter. Won’t you please come see him?
A 20-foot abandoned recreational powerboat washed up on East Beach on Chappaquiddick on Wednesday morning. Paul Schultz, assistant superintendent for The Trustees of Reservations, discovered the boat, which had a big crack in it, in the surf at 8:45 a.m. during his daily rounds.
Mr. Schultz called the Edgartown harbor master and the U.S. Coast Guard.
From the registration numbers on the boat, the Coast Guard was able to find the owner and contact him to learn the nonemergency circumstances that brought about the boat’s discovery.
After years of what seemed an encouraging recovery for the once-storied New England cod fishery, federal regulators recently announced that an important stock is failing.
A 2008 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study of the Gulf of Maine cod stock revealed a fishery rebounding after decades of overfishing, and on pace to be rebuilt by a 2014 deadline set by federal regulators. But just three years later NOAA now says that the fishery is near collapse and may require a fishery-wide shutdown to recover.
Matt Cancellare stands in front of you holding up a pair of padded boxing mitts. “Come on, give me more. I know you got it,” he says.
You throw combinations of punches until your shoulders ache and you can barely raise your gloves. You feel like giving up, yet something in his voice compels you to dig a little deeper and keep punching until the round is over. An alarm chimes.
“Time,” he calls. “Relax.”
Paul Sullivan’s last day in the Coast Guard and last day at Menemsha Coast Guard Station coincided on Wednesday. Mr. Sullivan, who had spent 22 years in the Coast Guard, and two years in Menemsha, departed with subdued fanfare at about 9 a.m. He took his car and headed home to his family, south of Boston.