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Two days before a special town meeting, Aquinnah selectmen are sharply divided over whether a pioneering energy bylaw should go to a vote, leaving the future uncertain for the Island’s first set of regulations on energy use.
A 16-page document, the energy bylaw remains largely unchanged from when it failed to achieve a needed two-thirds majority at the final session of the annual town meeting in June. A series of amendments to the bylaw were still being worked on at press time yesterday and were due in at the selectmen’s office this morning.
Greg Craig first came to the Vineyard at the invitation of his future wife, Derry Noyes, for the end of summer 1973. A year later they came back for their honeymoon. As you might expect, it was a time of high excitement.
“We were married on July 27,” he recalled on Sunday, sitting on the lawn of the family place at Menemsha, “Three or four of the guests couldn’t make it because they were staffing the judiciary committee, which was taking votes on the articles of [President Richard Nixon’s] impeachment.
Radcliffe Party
All Radcliffe and Harvard-Radcliffe alumnae and their guests are invited to a party on Monday, August 18, from 5 to 7 p.m. on the porch at 143 Munroe avenue, East Chop, Oak Bluffs.
Bring an hors d’oeuvres dish if you come. Beverages will be provided. Please call Wini Young Blacklow at 508-693-3346 or Claire Richardson Bennett at 508-627-7121 for directions.
How about this for an odd economic twist: the NASDAQ is down, gas is five dollars a gallon, and no one is buying anything except . . . art! Could that be? “Yes!” Vineyard artist Peg Thayer said yesterday at the All Island Art Show at the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs. “We all enjoyed a brisk morning of sales. It was fantastic!”
Coast Guardsmen from the Menemsha station were the first on the scene to rescue three crewmen from a burning tugboat in Buzzards Bay early Friday morning.
“After we pulled the third crewman off, we were backing away when the boat exploded and flames shot up into the air,” coxswain William P. Robertson said yesterday.
Lightning and thunder couldn’t have been timed more appropriately for Maynard Silva’s memorial service at the agricultural hall in West Tisbury on Saturday afternoon. But the gathering of hundreds of friends, fans and anyone else began and ended with sunshine.
Maynard Silva, 57, died July 16 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital after a three-year struggle with cancer.
During the program, many came to speak passionately about the blues musician, the sign painter, the father, the Vineyarder.