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
November 12, 2004
In Rare Vineyard Occurrence, Adult Coyote Washes Ashore
A coyote, whose carcass was found on the North Shore last weekend, may have swum to the Island from the Elizabeth Islands. That’s what Augustus Ben David, director of the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, is speculating. The 40-pound, fully mature female adult coyote was discovered Sunday high up on the wrack line at Great Rock…
Wind Farm Project Clears Key Hurdle
Army Corps of Engineers Releases Long-Awaited Environmental Report for Controversial Cape Wind Plan The controversial Cape Wind project vaulted back into the news this week with the long-awaited release of a draft environmental impact statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. After three years of deliberation and months of anticipation, the environmental report found…
Purple Heart: Vineyard Marine Home from Iraq Reflects on War
His neck is stiff, still sore from where a piece of exploding metal chipped the vertebra in the back of his neck. A second shrapnel hit him in the jaw. "I am definitely feeling grateful," said Michael V. Berninger, a 20-year-old Marine on medical leave from Iraq, now back home in Vineyard Haven. Had that…
Mississippi Shipyard Bid Comes in at $31.4 Million for New Vineyard Ferry
Mississippi Shipyard Bid Comes in at $31.4 Million for New Vineyard Ferry
By IAN FEIN
Steamship Authority engineers opened bids for the Islander replacement ferry on Wednesday and found that the lowest qualifying bid was $31.4 million – 25 per cent higher than their top estimate.
SSA management had projected…
Dragging the Ponds for Scallops Is Long-Held Vineyard Tradition
On Wednesday morning, under a warm sun and blue sky, David and Karen Berube were out on Cape Pogue Pond, at it again.
Red Cross Chapter Charts a Fresh Course
Red Cross Chapter Charts a Fresh Course
By C.K. WOLFSON
Brenda Lehman remembers when she was five, and her family lost everything in an apartment fire, and again when she was 12, in another other fire in Dorchester.
“The only people there to help us were the Red Cross…
Task Force Investigations Lead to Arrests; Four People Charged with Drug Offenses
Three separate police investigations have led to several major drug arrests, the Martha’s Vineyard Drug Task Force announced this week.
An Oak Bluffs man was arrested Sunday at the Stop & Shop in Vineyard Haven, while two separate incidents on Tuesday and Wednesday led to the arrest of three others. All have been…
