News
Listen. According to acoustic consultant Greg Tocci, if you are on the Vineyard you are probably hearing some combination of traffic, mechanical noise, wind rustling foliage or surf. This is the Island’s ambient background noise. It is the low unintrusive ever-present hum of Island activity. Will the sound of massive carbon fiber blades slicing through air soon be added to this audible collage?
State police and federal drug enforcement authorities made their annual helicopter sweep over the Vineyard early this week looking for marijuana plants under cultivation.
Sgt. Jeffrey Stone who works out of the Massachusetts state police barracks in Oak Bluffs, said yesterday that 62 plants were found and removed at six sites in Oak Bluffs, West Tisbury and Edgartown.
By MEGAN DOOLEY
A passionate group of Edgartown residents spoke out against allowing tour buses on narrow town streets, asking the selectmen at a public hearing Monday to preserve and promote a walking culture downtown instead.
A court dispute between the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation and the Quansoo Beach Association has been put on hold after the two sides have reached a temporary agreement about the placement of a locked gate on the road that leads to Quansoo Beach.
The gate has been moved further down the Quansoo Road, closer to the entrance to the south shore beach, Sheriff’s Meadow executive director Adam Moore confirmed this week.
“The gate has been moved and from what I can tell all has gone smoothly,” Mr. Moore said.
Three generations of the Oliver family of Edgartown had sailed their 22-foot Hereshoff Seasons from Mattapoisett on Tuesday, catching three nice bluefish for dinner on the way, when six-year-old Elizabeth Oliver became the center of a confrontation with the U.S. Coast Guard that devolved into a noisy standoff over individual rights, maritime authority and child safety, not to mention the issuing of six violations and numerous threats of legal counteraction.
Wind Rules