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Gov. Deval Patrick this week signed into law a saltwater recreational fishing license requirement that is the first of its kind in the commonwealth.
The license law takes effect Jan. 1; its purpose is to improve the way federal and state fisheries managers gather data about fish landings.
On the evening of Sept. 19, eyewitnesses across the Island called the Dukes County communications center to report strange lights in the sky, lights that led many to think they were witnessing a UFO. Online, Twitter and Facebook networks were abuzz with Vineyarders’ speculation about it. Dozens of people, many fishing the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby, said they saw the multi-colored lights that danced along the Island’s southern horizon.
Scott Castro was one of them.
The town of Gosnold has written to the state indicating its willingness to allow wind turbines to be located in its waters, and its determination that it be able to negotiate its own terms for any development, free of interference from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
Whaling captains might feel at home today if they ventured along North Water street in Edgartown.
The street has a new look that is decidedly old. Utility poles, transformers and overhead wires are gone. And the street is lined with historic reproduction lanterns that glow softly at night.
S. Bailey Norton, a resident of the street and point man in the $3 million public-private project to bury the utilities, said this week he is extremely pleased. The project took six years to complete.
Amanda Gonsalves, a high school junior and varsity cheerleader who was seriously injured during a practice earlier in the week, is at home recovering with her family.
Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss said Ms.Gonsalves was injured during practice at the high school on Thursday; emergency responders rushed to the scene and the cheerleader was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
A Cape Air flight bound from Boston to the Vineyard on Saturday evening was forced to make an emergency landing at the Barnstable Municipal Airport when the landing gear malfunctioned.
None of the seven people on board the twin-engine Cessna 402 were injured.
The pilot, John Call, 32, of Marshfield, was on approach to the Vineyard airport around 7:15 p.m. when a warning light indicated the landing gear in the nose was malfunctioning, Martha’s Vineyard Airport manager Sean Flynn said.