Pennywise Path Development: Pressure from Many Directions

By MANDY LOCKE

Neighbors are pleading for restraint, Edgartown officials are urging confidence and regional planners are demanding more answers.

Pressures are coming from many directions as Martha's Vineyard Commission members scrutinize the Pennywise Path Project - the most ambitious affordable housing project proposal to hit the Vineyard.

With a contract that expired more than a year ago and no real end in sight at the bargaining table, tension has begun to escalate between managemen

Huddling under what served as a gigantic umbrella, graduating senior Mario Spindola looked out from inside the Tabernacle before Sunday's high school graduation and could only smile. "It's a great day," he mused, his eyes scanning the growing crowd. "Too bad it's raining."

When it comes to competition among the bar-keeps and restaurant owners on the Oak Bluffs harbor, the gloves have definitely come off.

MVC Powers Eyed by Court

Did the Commission Correctly Act in Refusing Gas Station? Is There ‘Tunnel Vision'? Judge Will Decide

By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer

The unique power of the Martha's Vineyard Commission to hear evidence, weigh facts and use judgment in deciding whether to approve or deny development projects went on trial last week in the Tisbury Fuel Services case, which will now go to a superior court judge for a decision.

West Tisbury Republican Plans to Topple Eight-Term Legislator

By CHRIS BURRELL

He's a Spanish teacher at the regional high school and a part-time farmer who wakes at 5:30 every morning to feed the sheep and collect eggs on a family farm off Lambert's Cove Road in West Tisbury.