Julia Rappaport
The Menemsha harborfront, long defined by a history of providing open dock space for working draggers and lobstermen, must be protected, a vocal gathering of Chilmark fishermen told their selectmen early this week. The fishing industry is ailing and the harborfront endangered, they said.
“In a few years, there will be no fishermen,” warned Louis S. Larsen Sr.
Theo Epstein is a walking American dream. Growing up nearly within earshot of Fenway Park, he played, studied and dreamed baseball before the Boston Red Sox hired him as their general manager in 2002. At 28, he was the youngest general manager in the history of Major League Baseball and the envy of little boys — and grown men — nationwide. Baseball may be the American tradition and Mr. Epstein’s job an American dream, but neither the tradition nor the dream would quite say America without an ice cold beer.
The search for a new manager for Dukes County hit a roadblock last week.
On Sept. 27, the screening committee appointed to review applications and recommend three finalists to the county commissioners recommended the commissioners re-advertise the position and said it would not continue the screening process with the applications received to date.
The recommendation was made in executive session at the regular meeting of the committee.
Janette Vanderhoop says she cannot function without caffeine. Her addiction is recent, but, she admits, chai tea in hand, she is worried. Halfway between Aquinnah and the Gazette office in Edgartown, she realized she had not had her morning cup and found herself veering to the other side of the road. She makes a beeline for the coffee shop.
Even on Martha’s Vineyard, where art gallery openings are reliably free of suits and swanky dresses, it is still uncommon for an opening to draw a sizeable crowd clad in bathing suits — sunbathers literally on the way home from the beach. And rarer still for a bank to open its lawn on a Friday evening, after business hours, to play host. Yet bare-footed art openings at the Chilmark branch of the Bank of Martha’s Vineyard have been a regular occurrence for at least 30 years.
October will be a month of firsts for Island-raised artist Paul Carrick. This month, four of his paintings will be hung at the world’s only science fiction museum in Switzerland. “It’s the first time I will have my stuff on real walls,” he said by telephone this week. When he steps off of the plane in Switzerland to view his work, it will be the first time he sets foot in Europe. “It’s going to be an overload of stimulation,” the artist, 35, said.