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Acting as mediators in the second such neighborhood dispute in as many months, Edgartown selectmen approved taking legal action against a resident of Slough Cove Road who has failed to remove junk from his property.
Robert Sequeira is in violation of zoning laws, according to members of the Dunham’s Corner residents association who appeared at a selectmen’s meeting Monday.
Attorney Daniel Larkosh, who was representing the residents, argued that the junk on Mr. Sequeira’s property poses a potential threat to the groundwater.
The Vineyard Gazette office will be closed on Monday in observance of Presidents’ Day. Early copy from correspondents will be appreciated in the short week that follows.
More Island workers than ever are without jobs and seeking unemployment benefits this winter.
What began as a lark on a summer’s day in Vineyard Haven 10 years ago has grown to become a national phenomenon.
How’s Your News is a groundbreaking piece of programming in terms of the way popular media portrays disability, and its origins can be traced directly to Camp Jabberwocky, the Island’s well-known summer camp for people with physical and mental disabilities.
And now it has found its way to cable television and the entertainment channel MTV.
A spokesman for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) shelter was tight-lipped about details behind the decision to close the Vineyard branch of the financially troubled organization this week.
The MSPCA announced last Thursday it would close the Katharine M. Foote memorial building in Edgartown on May 1, along with two other Massachusetts branches, in the wake of a crippling 25 per cent loss in endowment money for 2008.
In August of 2008 a 20-year-old man drove into a tree in Chilmark and was deemed intoxicated by police. In February of 2008 in Oak Bluffs another man failed five sobriety field tests and the chemical test at Dukes County jail. In November of 2008 in Oak Bluffs still another man, arrested a second time for driving drunk, blew above the legal limit once on a portable Breathalyzer and twice more on the chemical test at the jail.
None were convicted of operating under the influence of alcohol (OUI).