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Hay-laden pickup trucks headed to the fair, kids and parents eating their lunch on the bench, cyclists stopping for a cool drink of water. It was a regular August afternoon on the porch of Alley’s General Store in West Tisbury yesterday, all save for the fact that this crowd was waiting for President Obama’s motorcade to go whizzing past.
Sometime after dark on Sunday night or early Monday morning, someone carefully removed a hand-carved wooden sign that hung from a post outside the Sandpiper Realty office on Winter street in Edgartown. The thief used specialized tools, not force, to cleanly detach the signboard, which featured a three-dimensional carving of the emblematic Sandpiper bird, then stole away with it in the night.
The new Vineyard Seadogs Calendar 2011 is available in Island stores. The fifth in a series, it features dozens of canine companions romping in the surf, jumping off of docks, frolicking in the sea, and even windsurfing, all indicating Martha’s Vineyard really has gone to the dogs.
Find these funny, furry, wet and endearing Seadogs at Bunch of Grapes, Edgartown Books, Menemsha Market, Cronig’s, Alleys, Aquinnah Shop, Craftworks, Rainy Day, Good Dog Goods, SBS, Tisbury Farm Market, Rosecuts, and the Menemsha Inn.
A project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making the rounds to notify Island towns of an upcoming project to locate unexploded ordnance on land and water around South Beach, Cape Pogue and the Tisbury Great Pond. On Monday, Carol Ann Charette outlined the preliminary project details to the Edgartown selectmen, and again for the Chilmark board on Tuesday.
A proposed recreational fishing pier in Oak Bluffs is causing divisions among fishermen and local residents who would prefer to see the pier elsewhere.
At a hearing on July 20 the Oak Bluffs conservation commission referred a proposal by the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game to build a 317-foot fishing pier off the North Bluff in Oak Bluffs to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for review.
Since then, the plan has provoked passion both in support of and opposition to the dock, as a record of correspondence to the MVC illustrates.
By MEGAN DOOLEY
West Tisbury selectmen have sent a letter of thanks to the state highway department for installing reflective delineators along the center lines at the intersection of State and Old County Roads.