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A renewed effort to restrict striped bass to game fish status in Massachusetts is dividing recreational and commercial fishermen.
Legislation was filed on Beacon Hill last month that would ban the commercial sale of wild striped bass in the commonwealth and also place stricter limits on the recreational fishery.
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Claudianne Reis and Anderson Perini announce the birth of a son, Mateus Reis B. Perini, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on Jan. 29. Mateus weighed seven pounds 10 ounces at birth.
Demand for services is now at an all-time high at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, the Vineyard’s sole umbrella social services agency, and precisely at a time when funding has grown scarce amid a deepening economic recession.
“Things are busier than ever,” said Community Services director Julia Burgess in an interview with the Gazette this week. “There are a lot of people who need our help right now, so we have to work extra hard to keep up.”
The Katharine M. Foote memorial animal shelter in Edgartown, which is owned by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be closed, the Gazette learned late yesterday. Saying that the organization’s finances had taken a hard hit from the recession and the falling stock market, MSPCA president Carter Luke announced that the society would close three of its shelters, including the one on the Vineyard. The Island shelter is due to close May 1, according to a report on The Boston Globe Web site last night.
Less than a month after a new state law went into effect decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana, law enforcement leaders, both on Vineyard and around the commonwealth, are crying foul.
And already legislation has been proposed to toughen the statute.
It strikes fear into the hearts of most business owners, but the recession does not scare Nancy MacMullen, the Island cobbler.
A look around her Oak Bluffs workshop will tell you why: always cluttered, it is overrun these days with queued shoes.
Ms. MacMullen, 56, is operating a two-week waiting list before she even gets a look at your footwear. Same goes for jackets, luggage sets, golf bags, deck chairs and die cups.