Dylan Thomas
The birds of the winged trees flying my name Above the farms and the white horses I rose in rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. – Dylan Thomas
May 25, 2001
Propaganda Blitz on Fast Ferries Seeks Public Opinion Overhaul
A selling job. Pitching the fast ferry. This is the main melody these days at the Steamship Authority, where management activities have spun into overdrive on the ambitious new service model that has been under discussion in all the port communities for the last five months.
Packer Oil Hit with Charges
Federal Agency Cites Packer Firm For Violations of Clean Air Act; Investigation Charges Release Of Tons of Toxic Pollutants R.M. Packer Co., the 23-year-old gas and oil concern headquartered in Vineyard Haven, was cited by the federal Environmental Protection Agency this month for a long list of violations to the Clean Air Act. The violations…
Martha’s Vineyard Grows Older in the New Census Count for Towns, County
If it seems the inventory of hair color products on Island drugstore and supermarket shelves is growing larger every year – well, it probably is. New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week shows that gray hair is the increasingly predominant theme in Dukes County, and for that matter all over Massachusetts, as…
Birth of a Light Is Remembered at Cape Pogue
The Vineyard's outermost lighthouse is celebrating a birthday. The Cape Pogue Lighthouse on Chappaquiddick is 200 years old, and for most of those years it has stood as a constant and reliable sentinel for ships making passage across the sometimes treacherous waters of Nantucket Sound. To celebrate its importance during the past two centuries and…
Officials Forecast Expanded Air Traffic
Officials Forecast Expanded Air Traffic
By JOSHUA SABATINI
The Martha’s Vineyard Airport, with another summer season at hand, is ready to handle the projected increase in air traffic and would like to see even more.
Shortages in fuel supply are not expected this season. A new fuel farm, with…
