Mark Alan Lovewell
The waters around Menemsha Pond are a bit cleaner today thanks to the efforts of a regional high school sophomore, Isabel Smith, of West Tisbury, who was scouting for a science fair project she could do last month. Miss Smith did a project on Creating the Most Effective Catch Basin that is already yielding some real-world results.
With growing evidence the Norton Point breach is appearing to close — lessening the current running through the harbor—there is buzz on the waterfront that the summer ahead will be easier for a lot of visiting boaters, particularly the local fleet of day sailboats.
Boaters may soon be prohibited from dumping or discharging effluent from their boats in most state waters around Martha’s Vineyard. On Monday, the state office of environmental affairs secretary Richard K. Sullivan Jr., submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), designating most waters around Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and southern Cape Cod as a no discharge area. The area comprises 807 square miles of water.
There are no squirrels on Chappaquiddick. Well, that is until a week ago.
Atlantic sturgeon, an ancient fish that once swam in local waters and has since become scarce, has been listed by the federal government as an endangered species, setting in motion a long-term effort to restore the fish to previous levels.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his dream and his vision for the future was revisited at the annual NAACP of Martha’s Vineyard dinner last Saturday night at the Grill on Main. The evening was an opportunity to pay tribute to the efforts in the past and look hard to the future. It was also a social dinner, an opportunity for the sharing of lighthearted fellowship.