After more than seven years of investigation and controversy, Cape Wind’s proposal to build 130 massive turbines across 25 square miles of Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound now seems all but sure to go ahead, following a favorable environmental assessment.
Refusing to take no for an answer, proponents of beer and wine sales in Tisbury and two of the three selectmen have opted to again put the town through the referendum process which split voters literally down the middle last year.
The warrant for this year’s annual town meeting will again contain an article seeking a home rule petition which would allow restaurants with a seating capacity of 30 or more — including restaurants in within inns and hotels, to offer alcohol with meals.
Jan. 5, the day of the annual Christmas Bird Count, was freezing, snowy and windy. Not the sort of day you would expect to find a vagrant from the tropics.
But there on the beach at Squibnocket, Bob Woodruff spotted a species not usually seen north of the tip of Florida. How did it come to be there, dead in the sand thousands of miles north of its usual range?
Alas it may always remain a mystery; the one sure thing is that it didn’t fly. For their find was not a bird at all, but a lump of brain coral, Diploria strigosa, indigenous to the Caribbean.
Steamship Authority governors have opted to take a hit of up to $160,000 to boat line revenues this year so high-speed services to Nantucket can be maintained in the face of falling patronage.
Like the song says, you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. And it was the absence of something I’d known every previous day of my life which woke me on Feb. 21, 2006, my first morning on Martha’s Vineyard.
Birdsong. I’d never realized how large a part of my life it was until that silent morning, almost three years ago.
A faulty fire sprinkler system has been blamed for a flood which severely damaged two Main street Vineyard Haven businesses last week, forcing them to close probably at least until mid-February.
Water flooded Ronni and Peter Simon’s gallery and also parts of Louisa Gould’s adjoining gallery last Friday night after water in a sprinkler pipe apparently froze, rupturing it, and later thawed, releasing a torrent of water.
