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David Fokos believes that great photography is time full rather than timeless.
By KATE J. CONDE
More than 40 members of the association made the annual trip to our Chappy station recently for the monthly dinner and meeting. Capt. Peter Wells and his crews of Engines 3 and 5 put on a nice spread of meat and vegetable lasagna, Waldorf salad, green salad, and garlic bread. The boys also had a delicious cake in honor of the recent retirement of Capt. Dick Knight.
Four people escaped serious injury when a helicopter crashed into the sea off Lake Tashmoo about 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
Police said engine failure was the cause of the crash.
Several private fishing and pleasure boats were on the scene, about 1,000 yards off Tashmoo, within minutes and threw life jackets to the passengers clinging to the upturned chopper.
The occupants were then able to swim the short distance to the boats. It is believed three boats ferried them to shore. All were checked at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and quickly released.
A new draft request for proposals (RFP) to improve up-Island cell phone service is complete, but first the three towns that are involved must sign
A preliminary report on the Oak Bluffs waterfront completed by an engineering firm hired by the town concludes that a large section of retaining wall near the snack shack along Sea View avenue is unstable and will almost certainly collapse sometime in the future.
The preliminary report from Marion-based CLE Engineering lays out several options to repair the crumbling waterfront, including a plan that would keep the building that houses the snack shack, bathrooms and changing stations.
An aggressive and combative wild turkey was shot and killed by a Chilmark police officer last Sunday after it reportedly attacked two people dropping off rental baby equipment at a home on Old Ridge Hill Road and then briefly held them hostage inside their delivery van.