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Following the resolution of a year-long contractual standoff between the University of Massachusetts and the state Department of Environmental Protection, a number of long-delayed reports on the health of the Vineyard’s ponds are again on track for completion.
The long dispute over who owned data used for computer modeling of water quality in bays and estuaries drastically slowed work on the federally-mandated effort to assess and then reduce pollution problems.
A 23-year-old West Tisbury woman was arrested on multiple drug charges on Saturday after she was reportedly caught with 60 grams of heroin she planned to bring to the Vineyard on the Island Queen ferry.
Lyndsey Gonsalves was charged with possession of heroin (subsequent offense) as well as distribution of and trafficking heroin after police caught her with approximately $20,000 worth of heroin in Falmouth. Ms. Gonsalves was accompanied by her three-year-old child at the time of her arrest, Falmouth police said.
Longtime friends and followers of the late Dorothy West gathered on Saturday afternoon in the shade on a hot August day to pay tribute to the writer, who was the last surviving member of the Harlem renaissance, and to share memories.
In many ways they are polar opposites, as different as North and South, their lives divided by the Mason Dixon Line. One is the consummate mother, wife and gardener, her laundry done, hair parted straight, thoughts quiet and ordered. The other is a consummate hostess, house full of people, dog on the loose, hair flying, calendar cluttered, a poet who scribbles her lines at all hours with whatever writing implement is at hand. And despite all these differences — or perhaps because of them — Rose Styron and Lucy Hackney are also fast friends.
Corrections
A story in the August 12 Tuesday Gazette about the 12-metre regatta was unclear about next year’s racing schedule. Next year’s 15th annual Edgartown Yacht Club 12-metre regatta will be held in Edgartown on the weekend of August 7, 8 and 9. The Worlds 12-metre sailboat races will take place next year in Newport in September.
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Welcome Brady
Heidi and Asa Vought of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Brady Nicholas Vought, on August 7, at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Hospital. Brady weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces at birth. He is also welcomed by big brother Micah.