The traffic delineators — those shoulder-high yellow poles at the intersection of State and Old County Roads in West Tisbury — are gone and police chief Dan Rossi suspects foul play.
“I have a feeling somebody doesn’t like them and I don’t know who it is,” the chief told the town selectmen at their meeting Wednesday. “You can’t just run them over with your car.”
The remark drew laughter from selectman Cynthia Mitchell.
A diverse group of bikers, strollers, unicyclists and one space-age yellow Velo bike paraded up Main street Vineyard Haven from Veterans Park to Owen Park last Saturday to announce the formation of the Island Climate Action Network (ICAN), an upstart community organization dedicated to educating the Island about climate issues and ultimately shaping Island policy.
Opponents to the roundabout are growing in volume — both audibly and by head count — if a public hearing at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission last week was any indication.
Oak Bluffs interim town administrator Robert Whritenour got a big vote of confidence from the town selectmen this week. Selectmen have been preparing to begin the search for a permanent town administrator, but on Tuesday selectman Mike Santoro wondered aloud why the board would even bother looking elsewhere given Mr. Whritenour’s early performance.
“There’s my hero,” said Martha’s Vineyard Surfcasters Association president Janet Messineo as Emanuel Thompson walked into the Beach Plum Inn on Thursday morning. It had been a day since Mr. Thompson, an Air Force veteran from Virginia, had caught his derby-leading 34.72-pound striper on Capt. Buddy Vanderhoop’s charter boat Tomahawk out of Menemsha, but he was still beaming.
The Social Security Administration has stopped making monthly visits to the Island, leaving the people who live here with no option but to travel to Falmouth to meet in person with a representative. Town leaders are clamoring to have the visits reinstated, but the federal agency says the likelihood of that happening is slim to none.
