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A fast 90-foot sailboat broke the record in the annual Round the Island race held on Saturday, the conclusion of the Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta. Rambler, owned and skippered by George David, completed the race in five hours, 18 minutes and 47 seconds. She is one of the fastest sailboats in the region. Last month she nearly broke the record in Annapolis, Md. to Newport, R.I. race, in the end winning line honors.
If the experience of the Steamship Authority is any guide, perhaps the slogan for the federal government’s stimulus program should be “hurry up and wait.”
For the money intended to speed up new infrastructure projects now threatens to delay three SSA projects by as much as a year.
The boat line is in line for $5 million in funding for three projects: the first phase of work on its Hyannis slip, the continuation of phase two of its Oak Bluffs terminal reconstruction project, and some work on its Woods Hole terminal.
For Mike Creato of Classic Aviators this is a crunch year and, while other business owners are jumping up and down about next month’s visit by President Obama, he’s fretting over the possibility that the First Family’s Island vacation will ruin his fragile biplane tours enterprise at Katama Airfield.
The scene at the Portuguese-American Club Saturday night smelled of fresh fried dough, sweet bread, marinated shish-kebabs over the fire, Cacoila (Portuguese stew), and of course, of sopa, the soup that Islanders of all heritages associate so much with this annual celebration of the Feast of the Holy Ghost.
“It takes a lot of people to make it all work,” said longtime coordinator Tricia Bergeron. And a lot of people volunteer, year after year.
A Duxbury businessman walked away as the owner of a waterfront home in Oak Bluffs after bidding nearly $4 million at a foreclosure auction on Friday, indicating the top of the market on Martha’s Vineyard is also cracking in the credit crunch that so far has largely been contained to lower priced Island homes.
Meanwhile at a May auction, the same man purchased the former Tuscany Inn in Edgartown, and he plans to reopen it as an inn next month.
The Aquinnah Cultural Center has opened a new exhibit, celebrating the history of the town through voices.
The center is located on the cliffs, at the homestead of the Vanderhoop family. The beautiful white house which now has a role of preserving the town’s history has stunning views of the shoreline. This is the cultural center’s fourth summer, and the latest exhibit is for all who care about Aquinnah and its rich history.