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The Cape Cod Commission has petitioned the state’s highest court to overturn the approval by the state Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) of the Cape Wind project.
At stake for the commission, though, is more than just the question Cape Wind’s future; it is the broader principle of its power in regulating development, and by extension, the power of its sister body, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
It was more exciting than the circus coming to town. At long last (although in the normal course of Martha’s Vineyard rebuilding, records for speed were set), the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on Main street in Vineyard Haven, destroyed last July 4 in a fire that started next door at Café Moxie, stood this past Saturday, June 13, at 9 in the morning with a purple ribbon stretched across windows and doors awaiting the celebratory snip of the scissors.
The class of 2009 shared the Oak Bluffs Tabernacle with another special group of graduates at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High school graduation ceremony Sunday. In honor of the 50th graduating class, the high school invited members of the first representatives from the class of 1960—to join in the ceremony. The former students led the class procession through the crowd of spectators that filled the Tabernacle and spilled out onto the surrounding lawn on a sunny afternoon.
Ten members of the American Legion held a solemn ceremony on Sunday, Flag Day, to burn retired flags. The gathering culminated with flames and dark smoke rising from an old steel caldron. The 10-minute service included a prayer, a speech and the playing of music.
The infrequent event is held when the veterans have collected a large enough pile of flags, the organizers explained.
Sam Bungey has been named online editor for the Vineyard Gazette, newspaper editor Julia Wells announced this week. Mr. Bungey grew up in London and graduated from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in 2003. After university he launched Mongrel, a monthly youth-culture magazine that he ran for four years. Published in Dublin, the magazine was circulated nationwide.
He began working as a reporter for the Gazette in September of 2007. The nephew of Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz of Vineyard Haven, he lives in Chilmark.
The newly created Martha’s Vineyard Tactical Response Team was dispatched for the first time on Saturday to assist West Tisbury police with a warrant arrest of a man with a history of violent crime.
On Friday police were notified by the Barnstable superior court probation department of a probation warrant for William F. Campbell, who lives on Great Pond Road. Police said that Mr. Campbell had violated probation by not keeping his personal tracking unit on; his whereabouts were unknown.