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The Massachusetts House of Representatives last week unanimously approved an environmental bond bill with a healthy allocation of $1.5 million for Oak Bluffs to help repair the retaining wall along Sea View avenue that partially collapsed in February.
The bill also includes $500,000 to build a new stand-alone public fishing pier adjacent to the Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority pier.
The West Tisbury byways committee has recommended including the Dr. Fisher Road in an expanded Martha’s Vineyard Commission special ways protection zone, after hearing complaints from residents about an increasing number of dump trucks and trash haulers traveling on the road.
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It is one of the enduring pieces of Martha’s Vineyard lore: you take your recycling to the transfer station, separate it as directed into containers for plastics, paper, cardboard, aluminum and so on, and then at the end of the day it all gets tossed in together and dumped.
Like glass, the myth recycles endlessly. But it is a myth.
T. Boone Pickens is a Republican billionaire from Texas who handsomely funded the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry. Carl Pope is a veteran of the environmental movement, executive director of the Sierra Club and fierce critic of both George Bush and John McCain.
That the two men are in furious agreement on the need for a radical overhaul of U.S. energy policy, Mr. Pope said, says something very bad about the recent state of politics.
The Internet did not arrive on the Island by chance, like the skunk and the raccoon. It was deliberately brought here by an anxious group of like-minded computer enthusiasts. Twenty years ago, it wasn’t even known on the Vineyard as the Internet.
Today, business on the Island doesn’t get done without a byte or a bit being exchanged. The Internet today is in every town hall, most municipal buildings and in just about every household. The world is linked to the Vineyard and the Vineyard is linked to the world.