Barbara Prada, the Edgartown animal control officer, has been fielding some strange calls this summer. So when she submitted her quarterly report to the Edgartown selectmen on Monday, the board had a few questions ready.
Selectmen: “Are you trying to kid us here?”
Ms. Prada: “No, someone actually called.”
Selectmen: “Was it a mountain lion?”
Ms. Prada: “No, she called back a few hours later to say. ‘I saw it again and it’s actually not a mountain lion’.”
A motorist traveling outbound on Main street in Edgartown crashed into a landscaping truck yesterday, driving up and over a trailer attached to the truck, damaging both vehicles.
Nancy Ambrose, 75, was driving her 1997 Toyota Rav4 northbound on Upper Main street when she rear-ended a truck from Anthony’s Landscaping in front of the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank headquarters, police said.
Ms. Ambrose’s vehicle drove up on top of a trailer used for hauling lawn mowers attached to the rear of the truck and came to rest in midair.
In marking its 10th anniversary, the Spirit of the Vineyard award fittingly will be presented to its founder, Polly Brown, at a breakfast in her honor at the Up-Island Council on Aging in the Howes House in West Tisbury on Saturday, Oct. 20 at 8 a.m. Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard established the Spirit of the Vineyard award to honor the volunteers who have given their time, talent and energy to a wide range of Island charitable causes over a long period of time.
A body that washed ashore in Edgartown harbor earlier this year is expected to be identified as a Brazilian carpenter who went missing over 18 months ago, state police said this week.
State police Sgt. Jeff Stone said investigators believe the body found on a small stretch of beach at the end of Morse street on April 16 was Renato Gomes Da Rocha, a 48-year-old Brazilian national who disappeared from the Island without trace in April of 2006.
The body of a Fairhaven man who likely jumped overboard from the New Bedford high-speed ferry to the Vineyard last month was found along a isolated stretch of beach on West Chop Saturday, police said.
The body of Walter Tyler, 28, was found around 7:45 a.m. near the West Chop pier along a north facing beach. Police said the body was partially decomposed, and was found wearing the same clothing Mr. Tyler was wearing when he boarded the fast ferry last month.
Looking for nonstop fun and excitement? Then go to the new Tilton’s Market at the Union Street Mall in Vineyard Haven when the UPS delivery van shows up.
The man in brown looked startled last Monday morning as Kathleen and Tania Tilton whooped and hollered at his appearance, and as they opened cartons of teas and coffees and exotic foods to further stock their new specialty food boutique around the corner from Riley’s Reads.
West Tisbury private landowners bordering Mill Brook may be eligible for a state program that offers to pay 75 per cent of costs associated with cleaning the environment on their property as water flows through on its way into Mill Pond.
West Tisbury selectmen last week decided to race the bureaucratic clock to clean up the Mill Pond.
Selectmen will file for funding approval by the Oct. 31 deadline and will place a warrant article before a special town meeting to be called next month in order to begin construction work late next summer, if voters and regulators approve the project.
The couldashouldawoulda’s are a week old now but the fact is the Vineyarders are still in the mix for a league title and a trip to their eighth Super Bowl despite a frustrating 8-6 loss to Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical High School last Friday night.
Bill and Lynne Macomber have just returned from Hershey, Pa., where they were vendors at an Antique Automobile Club of America flea market, along with about 10,000 other vendors. The annual event is the largest such gathering in the world and is attended by people from all over the globe. In the back of their 1940 Ford Panel Truck, they transported an Antique Motorcycle Club of America award-winning 1936 Indian motorcycle that Bill had restored.
