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An Aquinnah resident caught two bluefish by hand at the end of the day last Saturday. Wilde Whitcomb, 31, was out walking with his sister, Gabrielle Whitcombe, in front of Zacks Cliffs at about 6 p.m., when they noticed a bluefish swimming in the surf.
Mr. Whitcomb stepped into the water and grabbed the fish by the tail. They continued to walk along the beach and found another. Mr. Whitcomb grabbed that, too.
The Holmes Hole Sailing Association continued its summer season of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven harbor with a night race on August 18 and two harbor races on August 21.
Thursday night was a nice summer evening with a 12 to 15 knot southwest wind. Fifteen boats posted for the 6 p.m. start at red nun 6. The course took the fleet to green can 23a at East Chop, then to red nun 4 at West Chop, and back to nun 6. The first leg was a broad reach on the port tack.
On the afternoon of June 27, Doug Kass and his eight-year-old daughter Amelia, of Raleigh, N.C., were out for a walk on the south shore in Edgartown, making their way toward the beach in thick fog. The father and daughter stumbled on a family of skunks, forcing them to turn tail and find a new route. Once on the beach, still surrounded by fog but safe from the skunks, Mr. Kass and Amelia found a wine bottle that had washed ashore.
As Paul Schultz drives up and down East Beach on Chappaquiddick, past picnicking families and fishermen lining the shore casting far into the riptides there, he finds a lot of stuff washed up on the beach. Most of it is trash — empty dish detergent bottles, balloons, an enormous amount of fish line tangled in great piles of seaweed and driftwood are all part of the flotsam and jetsam. Enough trash is found each year to fill three or four dumpsters, and that doesn’t include the wood that washes ashore. “Everything comes onto shore,” said Mr.
Please Adopt Us
Our featured animal this week at the Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard is a dog named Rocky. He is a two-year-old Beagle/lab cross, medium sized and gets along well with everyone.
At the Yard, Island resident Laura D. Roosevelt has been elected president of the board of trustees, and consulting artistic director David R. White will stay through 2014 as artistic and executive director
Ms. Roosevelt will succeed Sarah Jane Hughes on Oct. 1, when the Yard begins a new fiscal year. Ms. Hughes led the board since 2007 and, under Yard governance protocol, she will, as past president, become a vice-president of the board.