Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday rejected three applications for new tour bus companies in town, postponed action on a request from the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital for permits for four fuel storage tanks, one of which is 38 years old, and agreed in principal to a new reverse 911 system to alert residents via cell phone, text messages and e-mails during emergencies.
Over the strong objections of one, two West Tisbury selectmen on Wednesday voted to create a new committee to explore the idea of building a new police station to replace the current headquarters next to the Mill Pond.
Chairman Dianne Powers and selectman Jeffrey (Skipper) Manter voted to create the committee, but selectman Richard Knabel dissented, arguing there was no rush to create the committee.
The hand-painted wooden signs which feature a small bunch of grapes at the top are a signature feature on the Vineyard, replicated in postcards, on T-shirts and refrigerator magnets. Usually they hang from ornate metal posts. MassHighway installed most of these signs over 25 years ago, although many of them have been repaired or replaced over time by the towns.
With the future of Crow Hollow Farm in West Tisbury hanging in the balance, the town planning board this week approved a complicated agreement that will allow the owners of the farm to create a three-acre lot around the existing farmhouse that has been held by the Look family for generations.
The decision caps months of discord between two town boards, offers and counteroffers from the farm owners and legal opinions from attorneys on both sides.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys’ basketball team defeated a determined team from Rockland at home last night by a final score of 70-62 in the first round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament.
The game was played before a standing-room-only crowd in the high school gymnasium — it may be school vacation week on the Vineyard but plenty of people are still at home.
They clog up windshields, cause temper tantrums and wind up costing Island residents a small fortune each year, but who knew those little purple parking tickets — the dreaded and despised staple of Vineyard summers — were such an important money-maker for the county? Plymouth County, that is.
