Pond Stays Closed for Further Study

State Environmental Affairs Secretary Rejects Land Bank Management Plan at Lambert's Cove Road Kettle Pond

BOSTON - Citing concerns about potential impacts to water quality and protected species, the Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs last month denied the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank management plan for its proposed Ice House Pond Preserve.

Main Street Campaign Begins in Edgartown

By RACHEL KOVAC

A group of Edgartown business owners have launched an ambitious campaign to revitalize the heart of downtown, from voluntary facade improvements to strolling a capella singers to the return of Christmas in Edgartown.

The American eel, once as abundant as shellfish in Island coastal ponds and rivers and all along the Atlantic seaboard, is in such decline that the

An Old Ferry Sails to New York; Schamonchi Reborn as Party Boat

By James Kinsella
Gazette Senior Writer

The old ferry Schamonchi has sailed off into the sunset - literally.

The unwanted remnant of Steamship Authority ferry service between New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard left its Fairhaven dock around 7 p.m. last Wednesday and steamed west for New York city. Fourteen hours later, the vessel arrived in Queens, three to four hours faster than expected.

Cape Wind Reconfigures Plan at Horseshoe Shoal to Meet State Guidelines

By IAN FEIN

Ceding to requests from state officials, commercial fishermen and the U.S. Coast Guard, developers of the Cape Wind project last week reconfigured the layout of their hotly debated wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound.

Molly Headly, age six, spun in circles waving her American flag while the Colonial Navy band marched by on Main street.