If the weather finally turns a corner toward spring balminess in the coming weeks it may be nudged by the overwhelming outpouring of warmth seen at the West Tisbury School for principal Michael Halt, who returned to the school this week after a 15-month tour of duty with the U.S. Marines Corps Reserves in Afghanistan.
The restoration of Farm Pond in Oak Bluffs is underway as last week engineers from two firms began initial survey work on what is hoped will become a widened culvert and a revitalized pond.
Last Friday Leonard Fogg ambled down to the Edgartown harbor from the Wharf Pub, led by his beloved eight-year old Bouvier des Flandres, Maui. Mr. Fogg made the same walk four years ago on a gloomy and frigid February evening and it nearly cost him his life.
This time a camera crew awaited Mr. Fogg at the docks as he reenacted the fateful stroll for the Animal Planet’s Dogs 101. Mr. Fogg paused behind a shed on the boathouse dock, the same one that he fell from years ago into icy waters, only to be rescued by Maui and a brigade of big-hearted Wharf regulars.
Plans to build a roundabout at the blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs are back on the front burner, and on Wednesday this week representatives from the Massachusetts Highway Department and the engineering and construction firm Greenman Pedersen Inc. made their case, saying it will save lives, improve traffic and even cut down on emissions. Just don’t call it a rotary, they said.
In the week after a town election that saw two incumbent selectmen ousted, Oak Bluffs residents were still buzzing about the new face of town leadership and the current of discontent that swept Duncan Ross and Ron DiOrio out of office.
When the Civil War began a century and a half ago the Vineyard was decidedly pro-Union, but ever since there has remained one prominent Vineyarder whose allegiance to The Cause has been suspect. He greets many thousands of visitors yearly from his Ocean Park pedestal and his original foot will be on display next Saturday when the Martha’s Vineyard Museum unveils its exhibit We Are Marching Along: Martha’s Vineyard and the Civil War.
