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The traffic delineators — those shoulder-high yellow poles at the intersection of State and Old County Roads in West Tisbury — are gone and police chief Dan Rossi suspects foul play.
“I have a feeling somebody doesn’t like them and I don’t know who it is,” the chief told the town selectmen at their meeting Wednesday. “You can’t just run them over with your car.”
The remark drew laughter from selectman Cynthia Mitchell.
New electronic gadgets bring to mind words such as hi-def, apps and smart. Old ones conjure up words like chemicals, metals, toxic and hazardous. And we have a lot of the old ones. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection reports that “Unwanted consumer electronics are the fastest-growing category of waste in Massachusetts. Until recently, Bay Staters were discarding an average of more than 900,000 units annually, but that number has increased due to the federally-mandated transition to digital television broadcasting.”
The Edgartown historic district should be expanded, the town selectmen said this week, reigniting a debate over how to expand the district to encompass more of the downtown area.
“I would like to encourage [the historic district commission] to move on something like that, I hope the selectmen would be in support of putting something together,” said selectman Michael Donaroma at the weekly board meeting Monday. “I’m all for it.”
There’s an old Yankee saying: There are old mushroom pickers and there are bold mushroom pickers, but there are no old, bold mushroom pickers.
If you’re of a philosophical mind-set, you might wonder why Mother Nature produced thousands of mushrooms of varying shapes, colors and sizes, and created a few of them so delicious that we’re willing to risk our lives by mistakenly eating any one of the poisonous variety. Why can’t they all go right into the frying pan?
In the Woods
Summer is over and the kids are back in school — and already they may be chomping at the bit, what with all that time now spent indoors. Never fear parents, help is on the way.
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum is opening its latest exhibit this weekend entitled Out of the Depths: Martha’s Vineyard Shipwrecks.
There is a members’ preview today from 5 to 7 p.m. and then it goes public on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and runs through to next August.