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The Oak Bluffs historical commission on Wednesday responded to allegations that a cottage in the federally protected Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association may have been torn down and partially expanded earlier this summer, possibly in violation of a town bylaw strictly regulating the demolition of historical structures.
In 2010, Tisbury is due to get a new ambulance. But there is nowhere to put it. Nor is there anywhere to put a new fire engine in 2012, when the old one will have completed 25 years of service.
One fire truck and a second ambulance already must be parked away from the main depots downtown. One current fire truck clears the station doorway by two inches when fully loaded.
When there is a major fire alarm, a horn blares at the station, not to summon firefighters but to tell those illegally parked out front to move their vehicles.
The West Tisbury selectmen on Wednesday gave an emphatic thumbs-down to a plan now under consideration by the Martha’s Vineyard Airport commission to allow an advertising company to sell space in the airport terminal and along the tarmac that would be visible to arriving passengers.
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania man parking his car along Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs drove into the front of Mocha Mott’s coffee shop just before 3 p.m. on Monday. Although no one was seriously injured, the crash shattered the coffee shop’s plate glass window and clogged traffic for approximately 30 minutes.
On Tuesday at noon it was quiet at the polls in Edgartown. The midmorning rush was over and the lunch rush (the town clerk wondered if there would be one) had yet to begin. Gray clouds scudded across a September sky. A small crowd of elderly tourists spilled out of a bus onto Church street. Eric T. Turkington ducked inside the Baylies Room at the Old Whaling Church. A lone voter arrived and headed for the empty booths, paper ballot in hand. He looked up and spotted the longtime Cape and Islands state representative.
Greening your company can contribute to the environment, but as the Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network will show on Sept. 23, it also can boost your bottom line.
A roundtable discussion called Living Green! Saving Green! is set for 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Baylies Room in the Old Whaling Church. The panel will discuss entrepreneurial opportunities in the green marketplace and give tips to make even the smallest office environmentally friendly — while making money doing it.