To the Mansion
Vineyarders are invited to book a room at the Mansion House for $26 per person during the month of January to celebrate Sherm and Susie Goldstein’s 26 years as innkeepers.
More than nine years after plans for a huge wind farm in Nantucket Sound were first revealed, the final regulatory approvals for Cape Wind have been granted.
The exhaustive review process began in 2001. It ended last Friday, with granting by the Environmental Protection Agency of a permit relating to potential effects on air quality of emissions from vessels engaged in operations to do with construction and operation of the 130-turbine development on Horseshoe Shoal.
There are some positive aspects to being a new Democratic congressman after an election which saw a Republican landslide. Yesterday the new representative for the Vineyard, William Keating, enumerated a few.
For one, he said it does not take long to get to know your fellow freshmen party members.
“There are only nine of us,” he said yesterday, the day after he was sworn in.
“That’s the lowest number since 1915. So it just makes sense the nine of us would become close very quickly. And we have,” he said, adding:
The real estate market on the Vineyard appears to be showing signs of life, according to the most recent data from the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank.
Land bank revenues are up for the first six months of the fiscal year, even though the number of sales remains relatively flat.
By virtue of his job, Tisbury ambulance coordinator Jeff Pratt is something of an expert on the hazards of winter.
The worst, he says, is when snow falls and is not cleared before the temperature falls, turning it to ice.
“Once or twice every single winter I can ever remember, we get a period where soft, wet snow turns to ice and the temperature doesn’t warm for many days,” he said. “Then there are so many falls.”
In her summation of the Martha’s Vineyard economy, presented to an audience of Island businesswomen in November, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce executive director Nancy Gardella labeled herself an optimist. For certain sectors, she said, things were going well. Very well.
