Vanessa Czarnecki
Police are investigating the cause of a car accident that killed two women and injured a third this week when their vehicle crashed into a tree on the Kennedy family’s private estate in Aquinnah.
The driver of the vehicle, 70-year-old Judith Morse of West Tisbury, and front-seat passenger Susan S. Lambard, 69, of Lyman, N.H., were rushed to Martha’s Vineyard Hospital just after noon on Tuesday, where they were pronounced dead. The rear-seat passenger, 68-year-old Susan Papanicolaou of Minneapolis, sustained minor injuries.
The thwack of a hammer reverberated through Vineyard Haven Wednesday morning. Several blocks away, the whirl of a saw carried downwind.
January may be the height of the quiet season on Martha’s Vineyard, when Main street parking spaces open up and so many storefronts remain bolted, but the streets of Vineyard Haven hardly have been sleepy of late. Instead, business owners and workers have spent the winter months brokering leases, renovating facades and hatching plans that could breathe new life into the long-ailing downtown.
A training flight that departed from the Vineyard ended in tragedy Sunday when the single-engine plane crashed into the icy waters of Cape Cod Bay, killing flight instructor Oulton Hues of Norwood and Edgartown and his student, Robert Walker of East Falmouth.
The paper lanterns at Menemsha Café will go dark Friday night, marking the abrupt end of the Basin Road restaurant’s short but successful run. Chef and owner Josh Aronie said he was forced to close shop after being presented with an unacceptable lease. “We’re closing because we have to, not because we’re going out of business,” he said. “This is not because of economic reasons.
The paper lanterns at Menemsha Cafe will go dark Friday night, marking the abrupt end of the Basin Road restaurant’s short but successful run. Chef and owner Josh Aronie said he was forced to close shop after being presented with an unacceptable lease. “We’re closing because we have to, not because we’re going out of business,” he said. “This is not because of economic reasons.”
Blue Heron Farm, the Chilmark estate that President Obama and his family have rented for three past summer vacations, was sold last week for $21.9 million. The gentleman’s farm will be occupied by a high-profile European couple, Lord Norman and Lady Elena Foster of Thames Bank in Great Britain.