Vineyard voters bucked the trend in the hottest contest of the Massachusetts primary on Tuesday, voting overwhelmingly for Robert O’Leary to be the Democratic candidate for Congress.
Mr. O’Leary, the current Cape and Islands state senator, got more than 80 per cent of Democratic votes on the Island — 1,478 of the 1,840 votes cast for 10th district candidate — but that vote was swamped by strong mainland support for his opponent, Norfolk district attorney William R. Keating. District-wide, Mr. Keating scored 51 per cent of the vote.
The new owner of Crow Hollow farm in West Tisbury has cleared trees, bulldozed soil, imported thousands of tons of landscaping materials and upset neighbors, but he has not breached an agricultural preservation restriction (APR) on the property, according to legal advice received by the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank.
Back in January, when a little-known Republican candidate named Scott Brown broke a long drought for his party, taking the Senate seat held for 47 years by the late Edward M. Kennedy, hope flowered among Republicans in this part of the state.
The analysis showed some 60 per cent of voters in the 10th Congressional District, which covers the Cape and Islands, went to Brown. Absent the influence of a strong incumbent, the 10th was winnable for Republicans.
Up in the attic of the old house at Quansoo, you can read its somewhat haphazard growth over 300 odd years. You see where the several additions were made to the original structure. You see ancient roof timbers, reinforced with temporary framing and juxtaposed with a concrete block chimney.
Downstairs, too, there is something of an historical jumble. In the cracked wall evidence of wattle and daub construction but on the floor, linoleum. And outside, a new temporary roof over the old one to protect the building from further deterioration.
Cape Wind has won another round in the battle over construction of a wind farm in Nantucket Sound, in a 4-2 split decision in the state’s highest court.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week rejected a challenge to the so-called super-permit given to the wind farm developers by the Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) in May 2009, covering nine state and local permits related to the connection of the wind farm to the electric grid.
Baby Earl was born about 10 days ago, on the west coast of tropical Africa. At that stage, meteorologists called him disturbed, but not yet necessarily dangerous. They watched him closely, though, as he left that continent behind and began moving out across the Atlantic.
His first mention on the National Weather Service Hurricane Advisory Archive was on the morning of Wednesday last week, although he did not at that stage have a name.
