Notice of Lawsuit Filed on Cape Wind

Town of Barnstable and Citizen Groups Take Formal Steps, Preparing to Sue State Environmental Secretary.

By IAN FEIN

Notice of Lawsuit Filed on Cape Wind

Town of Barnstable and Citizen Groups Take Formal Steps, Preparing to Sue State Environmental Secretary.

By IAN FEIN

Setting up another potential roadblock for the offshore wind farm proposed in Nantucket Sound, the town of Barnstable and two groups of Cape Cod citizens last week filed notices of intent to sue the state’s top environmental official for his endorsement of the project.

The three separate notices serve as formal appeals of the certificate signed last month by Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles, who found that developers of the Cape Wind project had fulfilled their environmental review requirements on the state level.

A fisherman checking on his boat in Edgartown Harbor made a grisly discovery Monday when he found a dead body on a small stretch of beach at the end of Morse street.

The fisherman first alerted Edgartown police of the discovery at 4:16 p.m. The body was reportedly male and found face down on the beach, surrounded by broken branches and beach grass uprooted up by the powerful storm that hit the Island this week.

The Island's troubled fishing industry will be a major focus of the Chilmark annual town meeting on Monday night.

In a town meeting warrant otherwise characterized as "very noncontroversial" by the chairman of the Chilmark board of selectmen, J.B. Riggs Parker, "the shellfish articles will obviously get much of the attention on the meeting floor."

A powerful spring storm that inundated the entire East Coast pounded the Vineyard south shore with heavy seas this week, marrying with extreme tide