Chappaquiddick residents, upset over Comcast’s failure to serve them, got cold comfort when they took their case to the Edgartown selectmen this week.
Peter Getsinger, the president of the Chappaquiddick Island Association, was assured by selectmen that getting cable service to their island was the town’s “first, foremost and primary objective” in negotiating a new 10-year franchise agreement with the monopoly cable provider.
Jeff Kristal won a second term as Tisbury selectman on Tuesday, in a second close race with the man he replaced three years ago, Tom Pachico.
At the end of a campaign marked by personal attacks by the candidates on one another, Mr. Kristal prevailed by a mere 12 votes, 461 to 449. Three years ago, when Mr. Pachico was a three-term incumbent, the margin was 14.
Compared with the other nine developers who have expressed interest in building commercial-scale wind farms across some 3,000 square miles of federal ocean south of Martha’s Vineyard, the Vineyard Power cooperative looks like a minnow.
For a couple of the coldest months each year, for more than 30 years, Ward Just and his wife, Sarah Catchpole, have escaped to Paris They need some city time and anyway, their beautiful West Tisbury home is not so well insulated. And Paris fires the imagination.
Tisbury School principal Richard Smith announces the honor roll for the 2010-2011 third quarter.
Fifth grade high honors go to: Casey McCarron and Elizabeth Williamson.
Fifth grade honors go to: Magarett Burke, Kevin Cardoso, Carolyn Duarte, Curtis Fisher, Belle Hattingh, Alexis Hughes, Sophia Kent, Tika Lampart, Coralee LaRue, Graham Lewis, Dillon McAndrews, Evelyn Medeiros, Michael Moore, Gabriel Nadelstein, Gabriel Oliviera, Larner Peak, Myeta Petrucelli, Lily Pigott, Nathan Tenorio, Devon Teves and Benjamin Tillman.
State officials have asked the federal government to reduce the size of the area open for wind power developments south of the Vineyard by almost 60 per cent, out of concern for the fishing industry.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission also has weighed in with objections to the federal plan to open up some 3,000 square miles of ocean south of the Vineyard, criticizing the haste with which the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) was proceeding, and calling for more study of the potential impacts of development.
