For 134 years the modest cedar-shingled post office of Cuttyhunk has served as a lifeline to the mainland for this isolated community. Now with the U.S. Postal Service facing declining revenues and cutbacks, the Cuttyhunk branch faces the prospect of closure, along with 43 other post offices in Massachusetts identified in a nationwide review.
The Vineyard will soon be surrounded on all sides by communities making the jump to next-generation energy infrastructure. On July 22 Falmouth, Nantucket and New Bedford each learned that they had won state grants to install electric car recharging stations, but for now the Vineyard will remain wedded to gasoline.
Acting is an endurance sport. Don’t believe it? Go to the Grange Hall any Thursday, Friday or Saturday night for the rest of the summer and see one man’s theatrical version of the Ironman Triathlon.
Oak Bluffs finally closed the books on fiscal year 2010 on Tuesday after selectmen conducted an exit interview with town auditors from Powers and Sullivan.
It wasn’t an altogether damning report from the accounting firm given the town’s recent fiscal woes but accountant Jim Powers did single out some areas that may still need to be remedied.
The Wampanoag water testing lab has a clean bill of health this week after a visit from the state Department of Public Health. The lab has been under scrutiny after test results for beaches in Edgartown and Oak Bluffs last week showed levels of the bacteria enterococcus at levels high enough to close South Beach in Edgartown and Inkwell Beach in Oak Bluffs, results that were not duplicated by water testing facilities in Tisbury and Chatham.
