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The Mill Pond in West Tisbury, which serves as the unofficial gateway to town along the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road, has long served as a haven for passive and leisurely endeavors: bench-sitting, bird-watching, nature walks. At this pond, swimming is prohibited, boating is forbidden and even sunbathing along the shores is frowned upon.
Creating sanctuaries and aggressively managing the protection of juveniles are two of the low-cost ways towns can jump-start their bay scallop fishery, according to the results of a five-year study into how to promote the growth of bay scallops in local coastal ponds.
Calling it a danger to those who skateboard there, an insurance inspector for the town of Oak Bluffs has called for the town skate park on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven road to be closed immediately.
Paul Chipman, senior risk control consultant for the town’s insurance carrier Trident Insurance, sent a letter to town administrator Michael Dutton on March 19 laying out his concerns about hazardous conditions at the park, while recommending it be closed immediately.
Madeline Ezanno will tell you she’s a little superstitious. So when she found out that as a qualifier for the 250 State Road affordable housing lottery, her applicant number would be 13, she wasn’t thrilled.
But as it turns out, her good luck did eventually kick in. On Tuesday night, the West Tisbury board of selectmen announced Maddie and her husband, Philippe, as the winners of homesite number three. And as it happens, three is her lucky number.
There is at least one coyote living on Martha’s Vineyard. Gus Ben David is 100 per cent sure of that, although he has only 97 per cent proof.
The coyote, or coyotes, have established territory on the north side of the Island, in an area covering part of Chilmark and West Tisbury.
Dean’s List
Grace Murphy of Vineyard Haven, a senior at Salve Regina University, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2009 semester.