South Mountain Company founder John Abrams likes to joke that as a student at Wesleyan University in the late 1960s, he was “the first person in the class of 1971 to drop out.
South Mountain Company employees spent last week learning from Patrick Moore, the first person in the Western hemisphere to graduate from Compagnons du Devoir, a 10-year apprentice program during which students travel around France learning from skilled artisans.
The West Tisbury select board and the town’s affordable housing committee are still grappling with a recent dust-up that saw a contractor withdraw from a proposed affordable housing project in the town.
The West Tisbury select board intervened this week to try and get a town-sponsored affordable housing project at 401 State Road back on track.
Although John Abrams isn’t officially retiring until 2022, plans are in the works for Deirdre Bohan to take over as South Mountain Company CEO.
South Mountain Company, one of the largest architecture and design-build firms on the Vineyard, is looking to expand its mixed-use campus in West Tisbury. A public hearing was held last week.