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Splashed with sun and circled by artists and admirers, 418 pieces of artwork hung from a wire fence roped around the perimeter of the Tabernacle yesterday, shaping the 52nd annual All-Island Art Show and Sale itself into the scene of a fine painting.
The bureaucratic red tape has been unsnarled and last week the Steamship Authority learned that it would receive $5 million in stimulus money from the Federal Highway Administration, which will allow three terminal construction projects in Hyannis, Oak Bluffs and Woods Hole to proceed on schedule.
At a special meeting Friday in Hyannis boat line governors voted to award contracts for the three projects. The Oak Bluffs project, which has been in the works for more than 10 years, is now expected to be completed on time in April of next year.
Margaret (Peg) Regan, retired principal of Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and teacher in Massachusetts for 30 years, has been named the interim executive director of the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard.
Her term, which began August 1, will continue indefinitely while the search for a new executive director is completed, the YMCA announced yesterday.
Several people reporting seeing a shark off South Beach in Edgartown on Saturday, prompting swimmers to evacuate the water and giving at least one person a scary close encounter.
Eva Bradford, 22, of Westport, Me., was swimming about 30 feet from shore at about 7 p.m. when she heard her two cousins screaming. At first she couldn’t make out what they were shouting about, but soon realized they were yelling “shark.”
Island golfer Tony Grillo shot a one-under par on Thursday at a qualifying event at Maplegate Country Club in Bellingham to take third place in the field and earn a spot in the U.S. Amateur Open, the leading annual golf tournament for amateur golfers that has been won by golfing legends like Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Jack Nicklaus.
Fish can come back.
A research paper published in last Friday’s journal Science concludes that while fish stocks remain threatened by overfishing, collaboration among scientists and fisheries managers can reverse the trend.
Boris Worm, a marine ecologist with Dalhousie University in Halifax and other scientists published a report in 2006 citing evidence that if current trends continued, all commercially harvestable fish would be gone by 2048.
The Friday report in Science takes an entirely different view.