Among all the species taken by fishermen in this part of the world, horseshoe crabs have, until now, enjoyed a dubious distinction: they were the only ones targeted while in the act of reproducing.
The easiest way for many to catch them was to walk the beaches at the times of the full and new moons in May and June and simply pick them up as they came into the shallows to spawn.
When Joan Ames of West Tisbury realized the workmen who had been fixing her house had been relieving themselves on her lawn, she was delighted.
She thinks the emerald green circles in the grass are beautiful, and the workmen’s al fresco un-drinking affirmed her in her creed of urinary utopianism. She wishes everyone else on Martha’s Vineyard did likewise.
As athletes revel in personal bests, so do town moderators. And just after 9:30 on Tuesday night, Derorah Medders briefly broke from the business of Tisbury’s annual town meeting to revel in hers.
“In my tenure, this is a milestone,” she said. Not only was it the longest warrant, in terms of articles and sub-articles, she had presided over in 11 years of running the town’s annual meetings, but it was the quickest.
Never in her time had Tisbury voters finished an annual town meeting in just one night.
The Martha’s Vineyard’s Wampanoag tribe is preparing to mount a legal challenge to the Cape Wind project.
In a press release this week, the tribe announced it had retained counsel and gave as its reason the fact that the federal Interior Department had declined their latest request for a meeting to discuss the latest — and probably the last — formal report on the project.
The Vineyard’s Wampanoag tribe is preparing to mount a legal challenge to the Cape Wind project.
In a press release on Monday, the tribe announced it had retained counsel and gave as its reason the fact that the federal Interior Department had declined the tribe’s latest request for a meeting.
Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar already has held several meetings, on the Vineyard, the Cape and in Washington, with tribal spokesmen who oppose the plan to build a wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.
For 90 per cent of its duration, Tuesday’s Tisbury special town meeting went almost impossibly smoothly for town officials. But they fell at the last hurdle.
As is so often the case in Tisbury, the bone of contention was dog laws. Specifically, an article proposing penalties for breaches of a town policy prohibiting dogs from municipal buildings. It provided for a written warning for a first offense, and a $25 fine for every subsequent offense.
