Jane Kenyon
I am the stone step, the latch, and the working hinge. I am the heart contracted by joy, the longest hair, white before the rest.-Jane Kenyon
March 2, 2007
One Ferry Begins, Another Ends: Events Run Through Monday
To those sitting in the booths near the lunch counter during one of the final trips of the ferry Islander, the usual docking announcement over the public address system was utterly indecipherable.
Wah, wah ,wah, it went. It didn’t matter; people know the drill.
Oak Bluffs Contracts, Bonuses Illegal, Two Town Attorneys Declare in Letter
A searing internal review prepared by two longtime Oak Bluffs attorneys concludes bluntly that the former town administrator had no legal authority to award personal service contracts and special one-time bonuses to a variety of town employees.
Septic Ban Points to Pond Protection
Property owners wanting to put houses on undersized lots in Ocean Heights and Arbutus Park may have to pay for the cost of bringing town water to their neighbors, under a plan to avert a public health threat that will be considered next week.
Substandard lot owners also may be required to pay…
Town-Tribe Pact on Land Use Comes to Vote Next Thursday
Town-Tribe Pact on Land Use Comes to Vote Next Thursday
By IAN FEIN
A much-debated land use agreement between the town and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) will come back before Aquinnah voters at a special town meeting next week.
Boys’ Basketball Ends Tournament Run
They hustled, they fought for rebounds and they battled through a tenacious full court press, but in the end the boys’ basketball team just couldn’t match a larger and quicker team from Scituate Wednesday, falling 73-41 in the second round of the Division 3 south region state tournament.
Earlier in the week, the…
Rare Find: Mink Discovered Dead on Island, Raising Queries
The discovery last week of a dead mink on the side of an Edgartown road has brought on a furor of questions over whether a mink population still exists on the Vineyard. The discovery of the carcass opens an environmental question that offers no immediate answer. Gus Ben David is on the case. One of…
