In 326 B.C., they thundered across Rajasthan and Punjab in northwest India on their war horses; men in military garb, shouting their battle cries, wielding lances and sabers and bent on conquest.
And 2,300 years later, they came from Rajasthan and Punjab to thunder across the sands of Chappaquiddick on their war horses; men in military garb, shouting their battle cries, wielding lances and sabers, also bent on conquest. But of a different kind.
Of all the various experts gathered to speak about global warming and sea level rise at last Friday’s Living on the Edge conference on Nantucket, Franklin W. Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America, delivered perhaps the most disturbing message.
His insight was not related to the phenomenon itself so much as to the chances of a meaningful and concerted response. It was about politics and psychology more than environmental science.
The Steamship Authority is set to hit travelers to and from the Vineyard with fare increases totaling more than $1 million next year.
Boat line management proposed the fare hikes on the Vineyard route, as well as increases of $1.5 million on the Nantucket route, as part of the 2011 draft budget at this week’s meeting of the SSA governors on Nantucket.
Over the past eight years the Massachusetts Community Development Block Grant program has funneled more than $14 million toward vital housing needs of Martha’s Vineyard residents. Thanks to concerted last minute lobbying by Island leaders over recent weeks, it will continue to do so.
But it was a close-run thing.
Oak Bluffs police believe they have cleared up hundreds of peeping Tom incidents in the town stretching back over six or eight years, as well as two breaking and entering cases involving assaults on women, with the arrest of a man last Friday.
Irton A. DeSouza, 35, of Oak Bluffs, was arrested around 1:30 a.m. after being tracked down with the help of video footage recorded on a surveillance system set up by an Oak Bluffs homeowner, which captured him looking into windows.
Vineyard voters bucked the trend in the hottest contest of the Massachusetts primary on Tuesday, voting overwhelmingly for Robert O’Leary to be the Democratic candidate for Congress.
Mr. O’Leary, the current Cape and Islands state senator, got more than 80 per cent of Democratic votes on the Island — 1,478 of the 1,840 votes cast for 10th district candidate — but that vote was swamped by strong mainland support for his opponent, Norfolk district attorney William R. Keating. District-wide, Mr. Keating scored 51 per cent of the vote.
