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After nearly 18 months of struggles and setbacks, the town of Oak Bluffs this week received final approval from the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Sengekontacket Pond, in a project that many view as vital to protecting the health of the pond.
“Feast your eyes on this document,” declared Oak Bluffs selectman Duncan Ross on Tuesday night, holding a stack of papers over his head. “It is finally here. This is the permit to dredge Sengekontacket.”
If coyotes get a foothold on the Vineyard, the results could be disastrous, for farmers, landowners and the native wild animal population on the Island.
This was the somber message from Augustus Ben David 2nd, a former director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary and one of the Island’s most respected naturalists, who spoke at a gathering at the Howes House on Monday.
The scramble has begun among Tisbury restaurant owners seeking to sell beer and wine, to get their license applications completed if they hope to cash in on this summer’s tourist season.
After the years of debate about whether or not to allow alcohol sales in town, and more debate about local regulations, town hall finally made application packages available late yesterday, two days after the selectmen finalized the regulations.
The selectmen predicted it would be a noncontroversial annual town meeting this year in Aquinnah, and they were almost right.
After long debate on Tuesday night, voters could not agree on terms for selling a town-owned piece of land, and the end result was that the land will not be sold — at least for now.
Stan Hart won’t have to wait much longer to see his life all bound and done. Happily finished.
The order has been placed for copies of his novel; paperbacks should be available by early next week. And a proof copy of his other, nonfiction book was delivered to his bedside on Wednesday.
Longtime Aquinnah moderator Walter Delaney remembers, years ago, spotting an unexpected visitor sneak into a town meeting. It was a warm summer night, and he had just gaveled the meeting to a close when a skunk strolled through the front doors and settled in beneath a chair in the back of the room. Calmly, the moderator directed the other meeting attendees out the side door, careful not to alert them to their curious guest and spark a potentially smelly panic.