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Martha’s Vineyard’s Indian tribe rejected a $1 million inducement to drop its objections to the proposed Cape Wind development in Nantucket Sound, in the interest of preserving a cultural tradition which some tribal members deny even exists.
The offer from Cape Wind was made during a series of meetings convened by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in Washington in January this year. Both the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe were offered $1 million each, to be paid in installments over 20 years.
The remnants of a shipwreck turned up on South Beach near Wasque last weekend, following a series of winter storms that have pounded and eaten away the south-facing shoreline of the Vineyard in recent weeks.
The large piece of what appears to be the hull of a ship was spotted about 100 yards east of the Norton Point Beach opening by Skip Bettencourt, who saw and photographed it. The ship remnant is about 35 feet long and four feet wide.
If you call the office of the Island Affordable Housing Fund these days, you don’t get a secretary answering. You get Ewell Hopkins himself, executive director, chief cook and bottle washer.
“That’s what I am. Absolutely,” said Mr. Hopkins yesterday. “I’ve laid off the entire staff. I am a staff of one.”
William Arrives Early
Emily and Michael Dwyer of Amesbury are pleased to announce the birth of a baby boy, William Judson Dwyer, on March 1 at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, two months ahead of schedule. William weighed 3 pounds, 13.4 ounces and was 16 inches long at birth. His paternal grandparents are Jim and Rita Dwyer of West Newbury; maternal grandparents are Peter MacRae of Chappaquiddick and Julia Wells of West Tisbury.
It took the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival about three years to get into the casual character it has enjoyed for the past seven. In the first year, a black and white printout distributed the day before the Grange Hall screenings announced a one-day program consisting of a collection of shorts, a few features and some ethnic food. The next year, a move to the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven eliminated the food; eating wasn’t allowed at the site, so the festival moved again.
Welcome, Madeline
Emily Coulter and Benton Coulter of West Tisbury announce the birth of a daughter, Madeline Somerby Coulter, born on Feb. 24, 2010, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Madeline weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces at birth.