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A subcommittee of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Wednesday launched an ambitious plan to create an Islandwide wastewater management study, which among other things is expected to call for a more regional approach to sewage treatment and the reduction of nitrogen loading into coastal ponds.
The Water Resource Work Group — a subset of the Island Plan, an initiative of the commission — hosted an informational meeting at the Olde Stone Building in Oak Bluffs that was attended by wastewater and conservation officials from all six towns.
In 2002, Kris Newby and her husband spent a week at their friend’s place in Chilmark. They had been warned about ticks and checked themselves every day of their stay. Though they didn’t find any ticks on themselves they both fell ill within weeks of their return to their home in California. One year and eight doctors later they finally were diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease.
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Anthony Benton Gude was 21 before he realized he could paint for a living. He was working construction jobs at the time and in retrospect there were already hints. “If we had to re-plaster I always mixed the paints,” he said, “and if we needed a rendering, I did that.”
But it wasn’t until his mother suggested art college that it occurred to him he could do the same job as his grandfather, Thomas Hart Benton.
Interrupted for lack of a quorum, the Aquinnah annual town meeting will continue on June 19 — and assuming enough voters turn out this time — the t
Vineyard saltwater recreational anglers are expressing mixed feelings about an unprecedented requirement that they’ll need a license next year when they fish.
“I hate it. I wish it didn’t happen,” said Janet Messineo, an avid recreational fisherman who also is president of the Martha’s Vineyard Surfcasters Association, said about the new rule.