A New Hampshire man drowned on Saturday in strong surf at Quansoo Beach in Chilmark, despite a dramatic rescue attempt by police, fire and ambulance workers at the remote location near the man-made cut at the barrier beach that separates Tisbury Great Pond from the ocean. Lawrence Shedd, 49, of Danbury, N.H., was pronounced dead at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital at 3:38 p.m.
Circumstances surrounding the incident are still under investigation by police.
Hollywood filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan has an interesting philosophy on careers, one that defies conventional logic. While most people say you should always love your job, he believes at some point you should truly hate your job.
“I think at some point you should take a job you truly despise . . . that way you’ll always know what you really want in life,” he told the Gazette in a telephone interview this week.
Several people reporting seeing a shark off South Beach in Edgartown on Saturday, prompting swimmers to evacuate the water and giving at least one person a scary close encounter.
Eva Bradford, 22, of Westport, Me., was swimming about 30 feet from shore at about 7 p.m. when she heard her two cousins screaming. At first she couldn’t make out what they were shouting about, but soon realized they were yelling “shark.”
A New Hampshire man drowned in strong ocean surf Saturday afternoon at Quansoo Beach in Chilmark near the manmade cut in the barrier beach between Tisbury Great Pond and the ocean.
Lawrence Shedd, 49, was pronounced dead at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital just after 3:30 p.m.
An eyewitness called 911 around 2 p.m. to report a swimmer in trouble, although there was some initial confusion about the location and rescue workers went first to the West Tisbury side of the pond opening, Chilmark police said. When it was discovered that Mr.
West Tisbury selectmen on Wednesday took the first step toward qualifying the town as a green community under the state’s year-old Green Communities Act, which may translate to state grant money and technical assistance for the installation of renewable energy equipment like windmills and solar paneling.
The Oak Bluffs selectmen hosted their annual meeting for summer taxpayers on Tuesday, and found this year that there were few people with little to complain about.
California Road resident Anne Theodore asked selectmen to do something about large trucks traveling at high speeds on her road. Another woman asked about the proposed new sewer line from the town wastewater plant down Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, eventually connecting with the new YMCA and the regional high school.
