In a sequel to the failed effort of the board of the Quansoo Beach Association to frustrate access to two large parcels of south shore conservation land, the association’s annual general meeting has replaced its chairman, James B. White.
But Mr. White’s legacy remains, in the form of environmental damage caused by the necessity to bulldoze a new section of road to provide access to the conservation land, and a legal bill of more than $30,000 incurred by the beach association in its dispute with the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation.
Vineyarders Jonathan and Linda M. Haar work in wind power technology, but one thing they share with wind energy opponents is an objection to seeing enormous towers built in pristine places.
And their concern is not just aesthetic, but practical. It would, they reasoned, make much more sense to generate the power as close as possible to where the power is used.
Hence their innovative new turbine, tested for the first time at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport this week: a turbine standing just 20 feet tall, intended to be mounted on city buildings.
The working title of Peter Beinart’s forthcoming book, The Crisis in Liberal Zionism, puts it nicely in a nutshell.
The problem: how do American Jews, who are traditionally overwhelmingly liberal, respond to an Israel which is steadily growing more illiberal and increasingly inclined to pursue policies which many, including Mr. Beinart, believes to be morally indefensible?
Lest one of the last dog-friendly public beaches on Martha’s Vineyard is closed to them, a group of responsible dog owners have taken it upon themselves to police the rules at Lambert’s Cove Beach.
The group came together last week, at a meeting of the West Tisbury parks and recreation board, in response to a growing number of complaints about the behavior of dogs and their owners at the town beach.
A popular Vineyard Haven restaurant faces the prospect of being shut down by the town within weeks as a result of the building owner’s persistent failure to address multiple, longstanding breaches of fire safety codes.
Already the Tropical restaurant, at Five Corners, has been ordered to stop cooking in a kitchen which has been found to breach safety regulations in a number of ways. Tisbury fire chief John Schilling served a cease and desist order on the restaurant owner on Tuesday.
More than four years after the new Martha’s Vineyard Hospital was required, as a condition of its expansion, to spend $2 million on community health programs, not one dollar has yet been spent on initiatives not directly connected to the hospital.
Under the terms of approval by the state Department of Public Health, the hospital was supposed to begin distributing the money in January 2006. The five-year timetable for the expenditure meant it all should have been distributed by January 2011.
