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The line for breakfast was long at the Oyster Bar on Circuit avenue last week, but well worth the wait. “Are you going to eat? Because if you are, you’d better hurry. It’s good,” said Natalie Dickerson, president emeritus of the Martha’s Vineyard chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
And good it was: cheese grits, collard greens, thick-cut bacon and home fried potatoes were just a smattering of the breakfast goods on offer at this, the chapter’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day brunch.
A fisheries petition that began on the Vineyard last summer to throttle back the commercial season for black sea bass and scup is gaining favor among state fisheries managers.
The petition from Island recreational and commercial fishermen asks the state to end the spring commercial season for black sea bass and scup and postpone the opening until later in the summer and early fall. The action would not affect recreational fishing for both species.
After more than seven years of investigation and controversy, Cape Wind’s proposal to build 130 massive turbines across 25 square miles of Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound now seems all but sure to go ahead, following a favorable environmental assessment.
The last time a new president was sworn in the only Vineyard party to make the news was an anti-inaugural street march complete with protest placards and a theme song.
Fittingly, Tuesday’s meeting on plans to repair the crumbing town waterfront in Oak Bluffs took place at the same time as the Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C., when Barack Obama spoke of the importance of rebuilding the nation’s roads, bridges and infrastructure.
The parallels were literal and figurative. Earlier this month the town applied for $4 million in federal assistance through Mr. Obama’s economic stimulus plan, aimed at providing a boost to the sagging economy while creating new jobs.
Cape and Islands Rep. Timothy Madden and Sen. Robert O’Leary were on the Vineyard Wednesday night to brace town officials for massive cuts to local aid to cities and towns expected in the next fortnight.
At a meeting of the all-Island selectmen held in the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven, the legislators also put forward possible methods of wringing out remaining funds from the state and federal coffers.
Much of the news was not good.