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To build or not to build?
It was the first day of March on the Vineyard; snowflakes cut through the air and the busier days of the summer seemed an eternity away. Main street Vineyard Haven was a ghost town, as a handful of shoppers shuffled in and out of stores.
But tucked inside the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street, a small group of people was busy tackling the pressing issues of the day: unemployment, homelessness and the ongoing financial struggles of the Island Affordable Housing Fund.
A state legislator’s effort to make striped bass a recreational fish only is dead for now. The state’s Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture has sent the proposal back for further study.
House Bill 796, filed by Falmouth representative Matthew C. Patrick, would have closed striped bass fishing to all but recreational fishermen. The bill was filed a year ago.
Oak Bluffs police arrested an Island man on Wednesday assault and kidnapping charges after he reportedly held his girlfriend against her will and strangled her until she lost consciousness. James W. Campbell, 36, was charged with assault and battery, kidnapping, larceny and attempted murder.
Agreeing that it’s not worth the risk to send snow club students on their annual ski trip without some added protection against injury, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee voted this week to require all students to wear a helmet when they hit the slopes.
Under pressure from a vocal group of fishermen, the Chilmark selectmen this week reversed a recent decision to require Menemsha leaseholders to carry extra liability insurance at their own expense.
A lively crowd filled the town hall meeting room at the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday night to protest the vote that was quickly approved in a 2-1 vote on Feb. 16. Selectman Warren Doty voted no.