The Martha’s Vineyard Commission agreed last week that a full review of the revised plan for Bradley Square is in order and set a public hearing for early next month.
At its regular meeting Thursday night the full commission disagreed with the recommendation of its land use planning committee, which on Monday voted to recommend that a new public hearing is not warranted for the revised Bradley Square plan.
New charges of felony drug trafficking were brought this week in Edgartown district court against three defendants charged in one of the biggest heroin busts in Vineyard history.
At the same time there is evidence that the arrests and confiscation of heroin has led to a higher rate of people seeking treatment for drug abuse and withdrawal on the Island.
In the start of what is expected to be another strong season, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School hockey team rolled over Mansfield at home Saturday 7-1 before taking down perennial power Whitman Hanson two days later 4-2.
The Vineyarders took eight shots on goal in the first period against Mansfield Saturday and connected three times as Jock Cooperrider, Elliot Bilzerian and Tad Gold all found the back of the net. Nick Billingham gave the home team a fourth goal in the second period, and the Vineyarders added three more in the final frame.
The Vineyard high school football team may have suffered a disappointing finish to the season — losing 40-19 to Amesbury in the Division 3A state championship game — but there has been much to be positive about in recent weeks as the postseason awards continued to pile up.
The Dukes County Commission voted without dissent on Wednesday to name Russell Smith, the longtime legislative liaison to outgoing state representative Eric T. Turkington, as the permanent full-time county manager.
Mr. Smith was hired in April to fill the vacant county manager position as a subcontractor on a part-time basis. With the unanimous vote this week, the county has its first full-time manager since E. Winn Davis left the post in August of 2007.
It was the last day of shotgun season for deer hunting and the state forest was the place to be to bag a buck before the sun went down. Or a land bank property. Or a private estate, for those with permission.
No hunter would have thought to look inside the old Edgartown School, where one deer was either smart enough or lucky enough to avoid the business end of a shotgun.
