Amid the excitement among his supporters about the rise of Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive nominee for president for the Democratic Party — particularly in Massachusetts where voters recently elected Deval Patrick the state’s first African-American governor — race still matters here, members of an Island panel convened on Thursday argued.
In the annals of thankless jobs on the Vineyard, the Oak Bluffs Firemen’s Civic Association’s effort to organize the annual fireworks display — a staple of summer on the Vineyard for over three decades — ranks right up there with moped dealer and traffic cop.
The town of Oak Bluffs this week received a $443,654 state grant to convert the old town library at the corner of Circuit and Pennacook avenues into a mixed-use building with three rental units of affordable housing.
“Working people of Massachusetts need more affordable housing opportunities,” said Gov. Deval Patrick, in a prepared statement about the grant. “I commend the town for its creative plan to redevelop their old library so it can once again be of service to the commonwealth and the residents of Oak Bluffs.”
Just days after the Tisbury selectmen made the difficult decision to ban a Siberian husky named Storm from town after he got loose on several occasions and caused problems in a residential neighborhood, the dog reportedly got loose again last Friday and killed four chickens on Chase Road.
A Cape Cod-based priest who previously led masses at the Good Shepherd Parish in Vineyard Haven fled to his native Brazil this week after allegations surfaced that he sexually abused a minor in Connecticut.
Spokesmen from the Martha’s Vineyard Arena — the Island’s only ice staking rink — appeared before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Thursday with an ambitious plan to build a 165-foot wind turbine that will double as a wireless communications tower that could boost cell phone reception in an area known for poor service.
