News
Correction
In a Sept. 9 story about a woman who was inspired to compete in the Vineyard Warrior Triathlon by the events of 9/11, the athlete, Jennifer Sanford, misstated the name of her husband’s relative who was killed in the attack on the World Trade Center. He was Louis Caporicci, not Frank Piacentino. The Gazette regrets the error.
The waters south of the Vineyard will soon become among the best studied in the world. At the continental shelf break, some 80 miles south of South Beach where North America begins its descent toward the abyssal plain, a huge swath has been identified by scientists to be monitored, dissected and measured in resolutions and over time scales unprecedented in oceanography.
Alpacas in January
The Massachusetts Agriculture in the Classroom organization announced this week that a photograph taken at the Island Alpaca Farm will appear in its 2012 calendar. The photograph by farm owner Barbara Ronchetti shows alpacas in the snow. The picture will grace the January calendar page. To order a calendar visit aginclassroom.org.
Call it a race to the top for the old pros. With the end of the 66th annual Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby one day away, the leaderboard is loaded with big fish caught by well-known fishermen.
A total of nearly 2,700 fishermen registered for the derby this year. Representing all age groups, they’ve lined the shores and been out in boats seeking striped bass, bluefish, false albacore and the elusive Atlantic bonito.
He’s living on a farm now, but that’s the end of the story, not the beginning.
And Rupert, the red rooster, may be the most famous rooster in Island history.
His story begins in May 2009, when he somehow managed to escape from his original owner.
When the kerosene lamps were being rewired during the recent Lambert’s Cove Church restoration, a shopping list for a ham and bean supper was found in the walls.
“It was written in the most beautifully blue ink writing from a quill, it was dated to 1895,” Joshua Yates said. “It called for five pounds of salted pork and barrels of beans.”