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Each time a Steamship Authority boat has docked at Woods Hole or Hyannis over the past week or so, the captain has turned off the engines. In the time taken to load the vessel, the SSA saved five or six gallons of fuel.
Multiply the number of trips by the number of boats, and the boat line’s latest energy-saving measure makes a saving of more than $30,000 a month. Which sounds like a tidy sum, until you consider the cost of the fuel the boats still are burning.
A continuing contractual dispute between the state Department of Environmental Protection and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth is delaying efforts to clean coastal waters all over the Cape and Islands, and must be solved quickly, state Sen. Robert O’Leary said yesterday.
The 11-month standoff has left towns without important data, compiled under the Massachusetts Estuaries Project, documenting the health and particularly the nutrient loading of their estuaries, bays and ponds. The information is needed for remediation and planning.
Edward W. (Ted) Hewett is back painting wood chests. The 81-year-old Vineyard Haven artist, who has done all kinds of paintings from portraits to abstract, is revisiting an art form.
“Friends ask me, ‘So when are you going to do another wood chest?’” Mr. Hewett said.
The answer is now.
Mr. Hewett used to paint a lot of wood chests: functional art that is a mix between something useful in the house and a one-of-a-kind piece of art work.
Company Marks 100 Years
Chaffee Industrial Roofing of East Providence, R.I., a company with ties to the Vineyard, is celebrating 100 years in business.
Dorothy Chaffee, widow of late owner Henry Chaffee, lives in Edgartown. Steve and Sandy Chaffee, representing the third generation of Chaffees in the business, are seasonal residents of the Island. The company also has done roofing projects on the Vineyard.
The boom years are over, the Island population is aging at a rapid rate and an underground economy — conservatively estimated at $34 million in unreported wages — threatens to undermine the stability of the Island community.
This is the conclusion of a recent study prepared for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission by John J. Ryan, a consultant with Development Cycles in Amherst.
Cape Cod Healthcare Community Benefits recently awarded the Cape and Islands chapter of the American Red Cross a $7,694 grant towards the development of its training initiative for Brazilians in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillators.
This latest grant will help the chapter recruit and train five Brazilian and bilingual instructors and subsequently to train 150 Brazilians who are interested in receiving the training.