Community Services Marks Anniversary with Tributes to Volunteers and Staff

By MANDY LOCKE

The staff, volunteers and supporters of Martha's Vineyard Community Services gathered together Saturday night to offer one last happy birthday to the 40-year-old health and human services agency.

Community Services embraced middle age in style this year, and the evening's tribute to volunteers and employees was no exception.

The leading critics of the 170-turbine offshore wind farm proposed for the shallow waters of Horseshoe Shoal made their way across Nantucket Sound

Commission Votes to Reopen Hearing on Gas Station Plan

By MANDY LOCKE

One week after the Martha's Vineyard Commission rejected a gas station slated for Tisbury's State Road corridor, Tisbury Fuel Service principals asked the commission to take a step back and reopen the public hearing for their proposed High Point Lane station.

While commission members wrangled over the details of information they hope to hear in the next phase of the public hearing, a majority of members acceded to the developers' request.

That Place Called Home on Halcyon Way: Vineyard Builders Give Back to the Island

By MANDY LOCKE

The steady banging of hammers and hum of table saws drifting across Old County Road in West Tisbury offered every indication that the Halcyon Way work site was just another Island home under construction.

But the concentration of construction vehicles from a half-dozen different contractors, a three-year-old running around with a half-pint tool belt strapped to her waist and the crock pots full of chowder and chili suggested otherwise.

Work Is Halted on Wind Tower

Court Grants Restraining Order to Stop Cape Wind Associates from Data Gathering Facility in Horseshoe Shoal Waters

By MANDY LOCKE

A state superior court judge has joined the wrangling over the 197-foot data tower planned for the shallows of Nantucket Sound, ordering a 10-day halt to work on a monitoring station already approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

It's the story of one Island family's refusal to gouge another year-round family struggling to find a home in an expensive real estate market. It's the story of a real estate broker determined to find the perfect buyer - a moderate-income Island family desperate to buy their own home after a decade of shuffling from one inadequate rental to another.

For once, it's an affordable housing story with a happy ending.