When Abby Fligor stopped for a quick supper with her parents on their way to the theatre on Wednesday night, she had no clue she was about to become a minor historical figure.
But at 5:39 p.m., when she raised a glass of wine to her lips at Zephrus restaurant on Main street Vineyard Haven, she became the first person to order a legal drink in a Tisbury restaurant.
Historic moments are usually serious, but Ms. Fligor had the giggles as the cameras clicked and restaurant staff gathered round.
It’s been 35 years since the movie Jaws forever linked great white shark attacks and Martha’s Vineyard in the popular imagination of the world, yet in all that time no one has ever been attacked.
Then, long after all thought it was safe to go back in the water, along came the U.S. Coast Guard with last week’s holiday boating advice, headed “Shark Advisory” and warning swimmers, kayakers and small boaters of the danger of great white sharks.
Surely Tuesday night’s Tisbury special town meeting, which finally saw police pay raises approved, set some kind of record for disco
Six weeks ago, as the oil giant BP sought to rehabilitate its reputation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the company announced it would put $50
Some years ago, as a fresh washashore, I made the mistake of honking my car horn.
It was at the blinker, coming from Vineyard Haven on an off-season day. There were but two cars: mine, and that of the woman in front who had been unaccountably stopped, for maybe a minute, maybe less. I didn’t lean aggressively on the horn, just a little beep, to say “I’m here.”
After several years of declining real estate values and falling sales numbers, at last there are hopeful signs for the Island housing market. Revenue numbers for the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank are substantially up.
Land bank executive director James Lengyel said this week he expected a 30 per cent increase in takings for the fiscal year, ending this month. The volume of sales, however, remains relatively flat.
