A key subcommittee of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Monday voted without dissent to recommend approval for the Bradley Square project in Oak Bluffs with a list of conditions, perhaps paving the way for the full commission to endorse the mixed-used affordable housing project when it begins deliberations in the coming weeks.
Diners at Island restaurants will pay more for everything from fish and chips to omelettes this summer as the cost of almost all ingredients has skyrocketed.
Vineyard, chefs, caterers and bakers struggling with their soaring costs — the price of basics such as eggs, flour and cooking oil have more than doubled, even tripled in the past year, they report — have been forced to increase their own prices.
Vineyard homeowners who already pay some of the highest home insurance costs in the country will not see their rates go up this year.
After the state insurance commissioner last month rejected a proposed 25 per cent rate hike for the FAIR Plan, the state-backed insurance provider of last resort, some speculated officials for the plan would appeal the ruling.
But at a meeting last Thursday, the insurer’s board of directors decided not to appeal the ruling, at least for now.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission on Thursday continued a public hearing on a plan to convert a building at the corner of Ryan’s Way and Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road in Oak Bluffs to a mixed use building with a Brazilian church, a community center and a day care center.
After two hours of testimony from applicant Valci Carvalho, pastor of the Assembleia De Deus Nova Vida (Assembly of God), and neighbors with concerns about the plan, the commission continued the hearing until June 28.
Elected officials in Oak Bluffs failed to publish the warrant for last week’s special town election within two weeks of the vote as required by law, the Gazette has learned.
This means the town override election last week will require a special act from the state legislature to certify the results, or the town must call a new election.
A funny thing happened on the way to the state tournament this past week for the regional high school boys’ tennis team.
In the most bizarre of circumstances, the boys were forced to play the girls’ team from East Bridgewater in the preliminary round of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament because of a little-known provision in the rules regarding mixed-gender teams.
