Mark Alan Lovewell
A veteran patrolman with long ties to the Island will take over as Chilmark police chief on July 1.
Brian A. Cioffi, 34, was named chief at a meeting of the Chilmark selectmen on Tuesday night.
“I am both honored and humbled to get this position,” Mr. Cioffi said yesterday.
A boat has a life of its own. This is the story of one boat whose lineage goes back through Vineyard history; one boat who gracefully carried a Vineyard family as it grew up; one boat that I, a sailor and waterfront reporter, had watched in wonder as she sailed these waters, until she ended up in a field collecting lichens, aging as a home for hornets’ nests.
Then she came to me. This is the story, too, of getting her back into the water, and how the sailors who are the fabric of this community helped me to return this personality to the harbor.
Tomorrow is the first ever Kids Fishing Jamboree. Youngsters from all over the Island are invited to attend a learn-how-to-fish program and it involves a lot of experienced anglers. Registration is at 8:15 a.m. at the Edgartown School and it is open to all children aged six through 14 years of age. The program is especially open to parents.
The event is sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Surfcasters Association, a nonprofit fishing club dedicated to promoting the sport. They do a number of fishing friendly events and this one is an experiment.
Spring rain and fog did little to dampen the spirits of young anglers and their parents participating in the 35th annual Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club trout tournament early Saturday morning — very early. More than 200 youngsters rose before sunrise to get to Duarte’s Pond in West Tisbury in time for the start at first light.
They came wearing raincoats and rubber boots, bearing cans of worms and artificial bait and laden with fishing gear.
A little more than two years after a hurricane-like spring storm tore a wide opening at Norton Point beach in Edgartown, the breach has begun to change, migrating eastward toward Chappaquiddick. As a result the tides in Katama Bay and the Edgartown harbor have begun to moderate, which may mean some relief for sailors and boaters this summer.
A new 45-foot-long mural depicting 400 years of Vineyard Haven history was unveiled on Saturday. The Tisbury mural, which overlooks the Water street parking lot and is aside the Stop & Shop grocery store, now greets any visitor to the town coming off the Steamship Authority lot.
On one side of the picture there are Native Americans at home near the shore. At the far opposite end of the nine-panel mural, there is a bustling community with the Steamship Authority ferry Island Home in the harbor.