For much of the work week, Emily Bramhall inhabits a world devoted
to the creature comforts of the indoor world - stuffed pillows,
luxurious bedsheets and cozy handknit sweaters sold at her store on Main
street Vineyard Haven.
It was all the more shocking then to see Ms. Bramhall wearing a
crash helmet and scrunched into the wooden cockpit of a vessel capable
of reaching 60 miles per hour across the ice of a frozen pond.
Vineyard Varsity Teams Win Playoff Berths
By BRETT FERRY
Two varsity teams at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High
School won key games on the road Wednesday, earning berths in tournament
play.
The boys' hockey team secured a spot in the MIAA tournament by
defeating Barnstable 4-2 in a comeback victory.
"This was a huge game for us," said coach Matt Mincone.
"Definitely a tournament-type game."
Despite being outshot by the Vineyard 10-3, Barnstable led the game
2-1 at the end of the first period.
Land Bank Announces Two Purchases
By JULIA WELLS
Two purchases announced by the Martha's Vineyard Land Bank
this week will protect a piece of fallow farmland in the town of Tisbury
and a tree-lined ridge with an old brook running through it in the town
of Aquinnah.
Advisory Committee Grapples with Two Massive House Plans
By MANDY LOCKE
The Edgartown Ponds Area Advisory Committee this week began its
review of two new house proposals for the margins of Edgartown Great
Pond - the latest in the steady stream of massive home projects
hitting Edgartown these days.
Both 10,000-square-foot houses, if approved by the conservation
commission, would occupy heavily wooded lots on the western side of
Kanomika Neck - a narrow strip of land jutting into Edgartown
Great Pond.
Report Details County Trouble
Dukes County Leaders Conclude Their Internal Probe Into Facts
Surrounding Payments Made to Former County Manager
By JONATHAN BURKE
The Dukes County commissioners this week heard their two freshman
members report that new personnel bylaws, stronger supervision and
better record-keeping will be required if the county is to avoid another
mess like the one surrounding the departure of county manager Carol
Borer.
Proponents of Wind Farm Trim Proposal for Horseshoe Shoal
By MANDY LOCKE
Cape Wind Associates erased 40 turbines from its wind farm site
plans this week - freeing four square miles of Horseshoe Shoals
previously staked by the private energy developer.
The announcement came Tuesday as Cape Wind officials sealed a deal
with GE Wind Energy to manufacture the 130 turbines the developer now
hopes to erect on 24 square miles of shallow water in Nantucket Sound.
The coldest weather in years has the Vineyard in a deep freeze.
Night temperatures have dropped into single digits and afternoon highs
have stayed below freezing every day this week but one. Edgartown and
Oak Bluffs harbors are locked up in ice.
Sewer Project Set in Tisbury
Leaders Release Four-Phase Plan for $10.2 Million Sewering, but
Frigid Weather Puts Start Date in Question
By CHRIS BURRELL
The construction crew hired to build Tisbury's $10.2 million
sewer system was supposed to break ground next Monday, but now
there's one more problem and another likely delay: The ground
might well break their shovels if they tried.
Islanders Brave Cold to Share Concern at Prospect of U.S. War in
Middle East
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
On one of the coldest days of the year, more than 170 people
gathered at Five Corners for a peaceful noontime rally expressing their
concern at the prospect of an American war with Iraq.
High School Girls' Team Is Family Affair
By BRETT FERRY
"The amazing thing about Mary MacDonald is how she's
adopted basketball as her family," says Rory Moreis, assistant
boys' basketball coach. "It's amazing. She lives it.
She eats it."
With both of Coach MacDonald's daughters on her varsity squad
of eight girls, it seems more like basketball adopted her family.
