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Outerland, the 29-year-old Vineyard nightclub that got a new lease on life less than three years ago, is up for sale, its books awash in red ink despite an outward appearance of success with a varied live entertainment scene.
“We gave it a great, great try,” said club owner Barry Rosenthal on Tuesday. Mr. Rosenthal bought the nightclub, formerly named the Hot Tin Roof, in January 2006, with his brother Dr. Arthur Rosenthal.
A Chilmark police report on Middle Road traffic is in and the results are not flattering: of the 14,500 vehicles clocked in a 13-day period last June on the road which stretches from Beetlebung corner into West Tisbury, more than 87 per cent were speeding.
According to police chief Timothy Rich, who presented the data at a selectmen’s meeting last Thursday, the main offenders were local.
Enthusiasm for fishing runs rampant at the derby weigh station. Anglers will tell their stories. Occasionally someone sneaks in and posts a note or a drawing on the old building.
This morning a poem was posted on the wall, written by R. Gross:
I’m a fisherman can’t you see.
That’s all I really wanted to be.
Women or man the fire is lit.
In the boats and beaches we all have to hit.
The thrill of it all as we searched the ocean shallow and deep
Occupying almost every available seat in the Chilmark Community Center, voters rejected a $2 million purchase of the Home Port restaurant at a special town meeting last night, flouting months of effort on the part of selectmen to acquire the Menemsha restaurant and surrounding property for public use.
As a result of last night’s vote, the longstanding Menemsha seafood restaurant will now likely go to Robert and Sarah Nixon, private buyers who signed an alternate purchase agreement with the current owners.
Following an investigation into the Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament in July that included undercover surveillance and videotaping, the Humane Society of the United States announced yesterday that it had evidence of high-stakes illegal gambling activities occurring during the controversial fishing tournament.
The society, which opposes the tournament, has sent a letter to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley calling for an investigation into the alleged illegal gambling.
In another abrupt change of course, backers of the Bradley Square project announced on Thursday that they would attempt to find common ground through a new committee made up of people on both sides of the project.
“It has always been our mission to create housing that is affordable within the context of thoughtful community involvement,” said Richard Leonard, chairman of the Island Housing Trust, reading a prepared statement at the start of a packed public hearing before the zoning board of appeals at the Oak Bluffs senior center.