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Oak Bluffs selectmen Tuesday unanimously agreed to permanently adopt a new policy allowing bars and nightclubs to serve drinks until 1 a.m. Patrons will be allowed to stay inside bars until 1:30 a.m.
The board voted to allow the later closing times on a temporary basis in May. The decision to accept the policy permanently took place Tuesday with little discussion. Police Chief Eric Blake said he met with several bar owners who told him the later closing times have not created additional problems.
The discovery of potentially harmful lead paint has forced the closure of the YMCA teen center at the Cottager’s Corner building on Pequot avenue. The center was closed in May and remains closed now. YMCA officials are hoping the center will reopen sometime by the end of the summer.
Defying the law of negativity, an Edgartown couple secured a special permit to operate a winery out of the former Old Colony building on the West Tisbury Road following a public hearing Wednesday.
Josh and Angela Aronie, both in their thirties, plan to establish a wine production and retail space in the building, which is the site of a former car dealership but has been vacant for a number of years. They secured approval for the project at an evening hearing held by the zoning board of appeals attended by more than a dozen would-be neighbors.
Think of a someone older than dirt. Someone you would never expect to have made a discreet visit to Martha’s Vineyard. Someone who has political problems with religious fundamentalists.
No, not John McCain.
We’re talking about a woman, remarkably well preserved considering all she went through, often referred to by a single, four-letter first name associated with John Lennon and the Beatles.
Nope, not Yoko, either.
The name we’re looking for is Lucy.
Swimmers at South Beach, State Beach and Tashmoo were told to get out of the water yesterday by Edgartown and Tisbury public safety officials, following the sighting of a shark close to shore. The shark sighting off South Beach was confirmed later by a private airplane flying over the beach.
There also was one report of two sharks being seen late yesterday morning at the eastern end of the Joseph A. Sylvia State Beach, in an area also known as Bend in the Road Beach, but there are serious questions about that report.
West Tisbury assessors in recent weeks have approved a record number of real estate tax abatements, with more to come in the aftermath of flood of abatement applications this spring.
Some $197,000 in abatements, representing more than $44 million in real estate value, had been approved by the end of the fiscal year on June 30 and the final total will be higher, said principal assessor Kristina West.
The town granted about $130,000 in abatements in 2005, likely the previous record, she said.