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If you had to pick the worst example of marketing defeating morality, it would be hard to go past the bottled water industry.
People spend some $7 billion buying the product each year. According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, Americans consumed some 31.2 billion liters of it in 2006, mostly packaged in plastic.
Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday agreed to forward a complaint about Ben David Auto Refinishing to the state office of consumer affairs after an allegation surfaced that shop owner Eric Ben David may have forged a customer’s signature on a check from an insurance company and then cashed it.
Yvonne Harding of Valley Stream, N.Y., sent a letter to selectmen dated August 26 expressing her “extreme displeasure” with service she received after somebody accidentally backed into her car and her insurance company directed her to Ben David Auto Refinishing.
The fishermen will begin lining up with their fish well before the 8 a.m. Sunday opening of the weigh station at the foot of Main street in Edgartown. Many of the anglers will be sleep deprived, having not slept but a few hours overnight.
More binds the five candidates running in next Tuesday’s Democratic primary for state representative than separates them. They are unanimous in their support of Barack Obama for President. Gay marriage gets a thumbs-up across the board. They all wear suits. On the issues that will face the incoming state representative, there is a lot of common ground too. Each candidate supports better pay for teachers, local farming initiatives and development of alternative energy.
With bacteria levels in Sengekontacket Pond lower than anticipated this summer, Edgartown shellfish constable Paul Bagnall is advocating that parts of the pond reopen to shellfishing as soon as next summer.
“I am pushing for the reopening of certain areas of the pond,” Mr. Bagnall told the Friends of Sengekontacket at their annual meeting this week. “And I don’t anticipate opposition.”
The blue Vineyard sky on Sept. 11, 2001 was cloudless and bright. And everyone still remembers that searing blue sky.