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Police Warning
Oak Bluffs police have responded to several calls reporting a peeping Tom over the past several weeks. In two incidents a man also entered homes occupied by women and sexually assaulted one of them. Police believe the incidents all may be related.
Police are asking residents to be vigilant by drawing shades at night, locking doors, using outdoor lighting and calling the police immediately if they hear or see any suspicious activity around their house or in their neighborhood.
If consumption of water and electricity and outflow of sewage is an indication, this has been a busy summer on the Vineyard.
The three down-Island towns all report increased water usage, much of it tied to the drought and heat.
Edgartown reports the largest numbers for water use and sewage flow. From January through July, the Edgartown water department pumped more than 161 million gallons of water to its customers. Last year the number was just over 120 million gallons.
Warren Doty stood atop a small blue cooler, beckoning the crowd at the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market over to the side of the Grange Hall last Saturday like a ringmaster at the circus. As the crowd grew larger, people peered over each other’s shoulders, curious as to what the secret ingredient would be. Home Port chef Johnny Graham stood on Mr. Doty’s left, and Sidecar chef Kyle Garell on his right. The two were about to cook head-to-head in the first challenge of its kind on the Vineyard: a seafood throwdown.
As a four-piece horn band serenaded the crowd to the tune of America the Beautiful yesterday morning, kids hurried over to the booth to buy ride tickets, parents applied sunscreen and food vendors began to fire up the grills. With a clear blue sky backdrop, the 149th annual Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society fair opened for fun times and long-lasting memories.
The Steamship Authority this week decided to charge more for ambulances taking patients off-Island for treatment.
And the fare increases, which will take effect from Nov. 1, will be steep — nearly 100 per cent on some trips from the Vineyard and more than 100 per cent for some Nantucket trips.
Currently, the SSA charges $102.50 per round-trip for ambulances on the Vineyard route, and $215 on the Nantucket route. The price includes the fares of the driver and passengers, and there is no extra fee if the ambulance is over 20 feet long.
The same proportion of white people as black smoke marijuana. So why are the incarceration rates for black dope smokers many times higher?
Why have incarceration rates overall in America quintupled in the past 30 years, while the nation’s crime rate has not changed substantially? And why does this country have the highest imprisonment rates in the world?