For the second time in less than a month, a sharply divided Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted last night to back the controversial roundabout plan for the blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs. With chairman Chris Murphy again casting the deciding vote, the commission deadlocked 6-6 over whether to rescind its first 7-6 vote to approve the roundabout.
The result was that the first vote stands and the roundabout project will now move forward.
West Tisbury selectmen are preparing for the possibility of life in a wet town, but some townspeople are not quite ready to hop on the wagon.
At a public hearing held Wednesday, selectmen seeking to discuss regulations for the potential sale of beer and wine at town restaurants and fund-raisers instead faced a small crowd who questioned whether the town was acting too quickly and presuming that a vote to approve such sales would pass.
As the Island boards of health begin to engage in a five-year effort to battle tick-borne illnesses on the Vineyard, early field work from a group of medical students on the Island points to serious deficiencies in reporting tick diseases to state public health officials, especially for Lyme disease.
When Vineyarders tuned in to FOX yesterday afternoon, they found the familiar, reassuring visage of Dr. Mehmet Oz. Next to him was an even more familiar face, that of Islander Marcy Holmes.
“It was a surprise. I haven’t been groomed for this,” Ms. Holmes said Thursday. “I don’t have the stage experience that Gerry has,” a lighthearted reference to her Vineyard Medical Services colleague and man of the stage Dr. Gerry Yukevich.
Before probing the outer reaches of our galaxy, alien hunters would be well-advised to turn their telescopes around, training them on Earth’s own cephalopods instead. The group of animals includes squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautiluses and were seemingly jury-rigged by evolution, armed with suction cups, beaks, ink, jet propulsion, camouflage and an intelligence entirely unlike our own.
The federal government will continue to foot the bill for its mandatory at-sea monitoring program for another year, after meeting with fishermen and state representatives in recent weeks and reviewing the economic impact of the costs associated with the year-old catch shares fisheries management program.
