Ocean Act plan could allow alongshore wind farms
Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles yesterday released the nation's first draft comprehensive ocean management plan for public review and comment. The draft plan would allow for small wind farms of 10 or fewer turbines off the immediate Vineyard coast and larger wind farms west of Nomans Land and off Cuttyhunk.
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Minutes that mean life or death
Seventeen minutes. That's how long it took searchers to find Beryl Frey, who has Alzheimer's disease, on Wednesday, June 24, thanks to a remarkable program that uses electronic gadgetry to find missing people.
Navy vets put former training to peaceful use
For the past three months a group of Navy veterans have used skills honed over the course of their military careers to remove practice munitions dropped decades ago at former target ranges along South Beach.
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Innovation at Yard's season opener
The Yard, the Island's resident summer dance colony in Chilmark, opened its season with two dramatically different but equally innovative presentations.
A chronicle of Vineyard fishing madness
I've fished the Vineyard for 16 years now, often very hard during the summer months, and at least a few hard-core days during each Derby.
Restaurants: Feasting on the Fourth
Like most holidays, Independence Day is a time to eat. Whether you are going to a party or having a barbeque, the Katama General Store in Edgartown offers a special holiday menu.
Peter Boak, director of the Island Community Chorus, often puts the chorus through challenging paces, but for the choir's concert this Friday, July 3, at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs, Mr. Boak has been kinder.
The British are coming, the British are coming!
It was getting late in the day. To have livestock from all over the Island delivered to Holmes Hole by 2 pm the next day must have seemed an impossibility to Colonel Norton.
Visiting Veterinarian: Toxic mistake
It had been a difficult mommy morning - missing homework, tangled hair, multiple meltdowns - but I had finally gotten my children off to school when my assistant, Elise, handed me a message. "This client just called. She put her dog's Frontline Plus on her cat, Petunia."
Off North Road: Taming the feral feline
After Kimba died, my wife Mary Ann and I wondered if we should find another cat. We had lived in relative serenity with Kimba for 19 years since his arrival with our son Chris, home from UMass-Amherst for a Thanksgiving.
For those who had, or have, imaginary friends, the play "Kim & Delia," may strike a familiar chord. The children's play opened yesterday, July 1, at The FARM Institute.
Baseball's Luis Tiant goes home to Cuba
The career of legendary Red Sox pitcher Luis Tiant comes alive again in Jonathan Hock's new documentary, "The Lost Son of Havana," part of Martha's Vineyard Film Festival's Summer Series, playing Wednesday, July 8, at the Chilmark Community Center.
Maybe it was the superbly executed story, the performances, or simply the collective non-stop energy emanating from the stage that had Saturday night's full-house, show-me audience so quickly and wholeheartedly enlisted in The Vineyard Playhouse production of "FLY."
A filled to capacity house. A bare stage. "Immigrant Voices:" Amy Brenneman, Charlie Hudson III, and Peter Stray sit in front of music stands holding their scripts.
As I sit down to finish this column on the penultimate day of June, it is - surprise! - overcast, cool, and drizzling outside.
The Pottses: still making headlines
The Broadside, Bob and Marjory Potts's weekly news leaflet, recently began its 10th year of continuous publication.
All hail the Glorious Fourth! Ironical as it may be, I find myself indoors writing while the fairest of recent days passes outside the window.
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