Mark Alan Lovewell
The 1929 Oak Bluffs fire truck Engine number 2 is coming home. A group of Oak Bluffs firemen and friends have raised the necessary $10,000 to purchase the vehicle, Donald Billings announced yesterday.
Mr. Billings said the group plans to bring the truck back to the Vineyard sometime in September.
The truck is now in Milton, though it has also lived in a number of places across New England. Mr. Billings describes the truck as mint condition. The truck has not been in Oak Bluffs since it was sold and taken away in 1956.
On Tuesday morning, before most Islanders had their first cup of coffee, volunteers took a walk around Sengekontacket Pond looking for sources of pollution.
Carrying clipboards and cameras, the volunteers did a coastal shoreline survey, looking for anything that might signal a cause for the declining water quality in the 745-acre pond.
By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL
The days this summer for eating locally caught fluke on the Vineyard are coming to a close.
Fluke, also called summer flounder, are a flat fish. Their fillets are white and tasty, and most come from Vineyard Sound. Since the start of the summer, fluke have been the catch of the day.
On Tuesday, the state closed the commercial season for landing fluke, based on projected estimates that the state quota had been met.
The 14th annual Edgartown Yacht Club 12-metre regatta is this weekend. This year 10 boats are expected for two days of racing, beginning tomorrow.
These are among the fastest big sailboats of the sea. Each has had its days of glory in trying to win the America’s Cup. The boats are between 60 and 70 feet in length, require a sizable crew to sail and often have huge colorful spinnakers. Many of them are coming from Newport. Starting today, they’ll be tied up at the Edgartown Yacht Club.
Lightning and thunder couldn’t have been timed more appropriately for Maynard Silva’s memorial service at the agricultural hall in West Tisbury on Saturday afternoon. But the gathering of hundreds of friends, fans and anyone else began and ended with sunshine.
Maynard Silva, 57, died July 16 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital after a three-year struggle with cancer.
During the program, many came to speak passionately about the blues musician, the sign painter, the father, the Vineyarder.
Coast Guardsmen from the Menemsha station were the first on the scene to rescue three crewmen from a burning tugboat in Buzzards Bay early Friday morning.
“After we pulled the third crewman off, we were backing away when the boat exploded and flames shot up into the air,” coxswain William P. Robertson said yesterday.