Sam Bungey
Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr. uses the quiet entrance, through the corridors of the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School to a backstage area of the performing arts center, no doubt the sort of precaution he regularly takes since his arrest and high profile beer with the President last month.
But as he enters, he bellows with a theatrical gesture of his walking cane in the direction of his friend and legal counsel, Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the man he calls Tree.
It is no discourtesy to the current owners to say that Blue Heron Farm is the product of Tony Fisher’s imagination.
It is also true that Mr. Fisher drew major inspiration from at least two sources: the home of West Tisbury builder Rick Anderson and a Kevin Costner movie.
An unprecedented set of flight restrictions for the Vineyard announced yesterday will effectively shut down Katama Airfield for the duration of the Presidential visit from August 23 to August 30, and strictly regulate air travel to and from the Martha’s Vineyard airport, according to aviation experts.
A notice to airmen of a temporary flight restriction (TRF) released online yesterday morning by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) showed far stricter regulations than those enforced under President Clinton.
The Edgartown affordable housing trust has received a second of three required payments from the Edgartown Field Club, bringing the trust treasury to $1.3 million. The town affordable housing committee will hold two meetings in September to begin plans for allocating money to affordable housing projects.
The man who will set the pay for top executives at the seven largest firms rescued by federal bailout money spoke about the power of his position at a talk at the Grange Hall Sunday night, as he prepared to review pay plans from his West Tisbury home.
Aquinnah voters will revisit a pioneering wind energy proposal at a special town meeting slated for the end of September, and selectmen have referred to town counsel an ongoing dispute with the Wampanoag tribe over the cleaning of Menemsha Pond after an abandoned oyster project.
After several deadlines to clean up the pond were not met, selectmen voted in July to contact town counsel for advice.
No action was taken until Wednesday when selectman Camille Rose contacted town counsel Ronald H. Rappaport and took him on a tour of the site.