Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football coach Don Herman expected his 200th win to be a private accomplishment. “I never mentioned anything to my players,” he said in an interview in his office at the high school on Wednesday. But last Thursday as the coach walked off the practice field he was amused to hear the team break from its huddle. “Two hundred!” they shouted.
A plan to subdivide 70 acres fronting Katama Bay on Chappaquiddick into 11 lots is now before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for review as a development of regional impact (DRI).
Wind farms have long provoked a certain cognitive dissonance among environmentalists, who favor renewable energy but oppose the negative impacts of turbines, including bird strikes and habitat displacement. The effects of turbines on bird populations are fairly well understood after a decade of European experience but less is known about their impact underwater, especially on local species of whales and sea turtles.
For the past decade Betty Burton has organized the Vineyard Haven Public Library’s evening lecture series. On Tuesday it was her turn to speak. Like many Vineyarders, when she came to the Island years ago, she left behind an impressive oeuvre on the continent: Mrs. Burton was a researcher on the cutting edge of the still emergent field of genetics in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
“Even people who have known her for a long time don’t know about her career as a research scientist,” says her husband, John Sundman.
Two West Tisbury men were arrested last week in connection with the brutal beating of a man at an August party in West Tisbury.
