Cape Pogue Pond

2022

May 10, 2022

Anchor Ban Will Continue in Cape Pogue Pond

Edgartown select board
Cape Pogue Pond
A moratorium on anchoring in Cape Pogue Pond will continue this summer after a vote by the Edgartown select board Monday.

2021

March 22, 2021

Edgartown Adopts Anchorage Moratorium in Cape Pogue Pond

Noah Asimow
Cape Pogue Pond
Edgartown select board
Selectmen voted unanimously Monday to institute a first-of-its-kind moratorium on anchoring in Cape Pogue Pond.
February 24, 2021

Cape Pogue Anchoring Moratorium Gathers Head of Steam

Noah Asimow
Cape Pogue Pond
Last summer’s flood of recreational boating vessels in Edgartown’s ecologically-sensitive Cape Pogue Pond has rustled up a tidal wave of concern.

2020

December 10, 2020

Ban on Anchoring Proposed for Cape Pogue Pond

Noah Asimow
Cape Pogue Pond
After one of the busiest summers in recent memory for recreational boating in Cape Pogue Pond, the Edgartown marine advisory committee is proposing a temporary ban on anchoring in the pond.

2019

May 2, 2019

World War II Bomber Found Buried at Cape Pogue

Noah Asimow
Cape Pogue Pond
World War Two

Researchers believe they have found fragments from a World War II-era bomber plane that crash-landed in the frigid waters off Chappaquiddick during a doomed practice dive in the winter of 1946.

2017

November 22, 2017

Shellfish Committee Eyes Cape Pogue Expansion

Sara Brown
Aquaculture
Edgartown shellfish committee
Cape Pogue Pond

The Edgartown shellfish committee delayed a formal decision on a plan to open Cape Pogue Pond for oyster farms, with tension over protecting a pristine pond and competing interests.

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