Caterpillar Invasion Returns for Encore, Stripping Trees, Shrubbery,
in Our Hair
By IAN FEIN
They dangle down on silken threads and stick to your shirt or in
your hair. They crawl up the sides of homes and infest your trees. You
can hear them munching away on leaves, their frass falling to the ground
like rain.
Shellfish Beds Closed After Deluge
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
The state temporarily shut down shellfish beds on the Vineyard and
across Cape Cod Wednesday as a severe northeaster swept across the
region, bringing torrential rains and wind gusts of more than 45 miles
per hour.
Offshore Energy Project Eyes Submerged Turbines Near the Middle
Ground
By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer
A development company has quietly filed plans to build a large
underwater tidal hydroelectric farm with up to 150 submerged propeller
units between Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands in
Vineyard Sound.
The applicant is Massachusetts Tidal Energy Co. of Washington, D.C.,
whose backers are largely unknown.
Cozy Hearth Project Backers to Appeal
Hotly Debated Owner-Built Home Plan for Watcha Path Area of
Edgartown Will Go to State Housing Board
By IAN FEIN
At its first public hearing in May of last year, affordable housing
advocates hailed it as a model grassroots effort that would allow
working class residents to stay on the Vineyard, while conservationists
warned that it would set a dangerous precedent for development density
in an environmentally sensitive area.
As soon as you meet Jim Cornwell, the adoration he has for his
border collies is readily apparent. The baseball cap he wears is
decorated by a lively looking border collie, while his denim shirt bears
the insignia of Tash and Tama, the names of his two dogs.
Wearing flower garlands instead of caps and gowns, two girls and
three boys were graduated from the Martha's Vineyard Public
Charter School on Saturday under a tent sheltering friends, family,
teachers, administrators and alumni from the overcast sky and smell of
rain that threatened a downpour - but held off for the length of
the ceremony.
Aquinnah Reconvenes Town Meeting
By IAN FEIN
Aquinnah voters this week will pick up where they left off one month
ago and reconvene their annual town meeting to try to adopt a balanced
town budget.
The original town meeting adjourned early on May 9 when it became
clear that a large contingent of voters were unhappy with the budget as
presented. This week's meeting, a continuation of the chaotic
first installment, will be held on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the old town
hall.
Supreme Judicial Court Soundly Upholds Town Sewage Plant Practices
By IAN FEIN
In a resounding victory for the town of Edgartown, the Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that the Edgartown wastewater
treatment plant is part of the solution - and not the problem
- to water quality pollution in Edgartown Great Pond.
Supreme Judicial Court Soundly Upholds Town Sewage Plant Practices
By IAN FEIN
In a resounding victory for the town of Edgartown, the Massachusetts
Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that the Edgartown wastewater
treatment plant is part of the solution - and not the problem
- to water quality pollution in Edgartown Great Pond.
The silver and gold still sparkles in the afternoon sun like it did
that summer in 1966, when the young college student from Boston with
long blond hair stepped off the ferry, walked into Vineyard Haven and
began selling her handmade jewelry on the Island for the first time.
