The Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is suing an exclusive south shore beach association, accusing it of trespass and intimidation.
The Garde family of Vineyard Haven appears to have given up on legal efforts to keep its three delinquent husky dogs, but has yet to comply with the town’s order to get rid of the dogs, or pay fines which now total more than $26,000.
The long-running dispute between the town and the family was due to have been aired again in Edgartown district court last week, but the family at the last minute dropped its action against an order of the selectmen.
Tisbury residents, having come up with the money to build a new fire house, now will be asked by town leaders to come up with more money, to knock down and redevelop the old one.
The town’s selectmen and planning board members, at a meeting on Tuesday night, all agreed the current building was not salvageable and should be removed as soon as possible after the new emergency services facility on Spring street is completed, around April or May next year.
The growing population of seals which congregate off the south shore of the Vineyard are about to become something more than competition for fishermen and an attractant for sharks. They will be a sightseeing attraction, bringing tourist dollars.
At least this is the hope of the operators of the fast ferry service which last year began regular runs between New York and the Island.
Martha’s Vineyard’s six towns would make large cost savings and enjoy a better standard of policing, if they agreed to a merge their six police departments into a single force, a consultant’s report has found.
The report was prepared by Robert Wasserman, a part-time Island resident who has done similar work for some of the largest police services in America and overseas. It was commissioned by the Tisbury selectmen, who initially wanted an analysis of the problems within their own poorly functioning police department.
Every year, the Tisbury Great Pond shoreline comes closer to Wesley Edens’s house. Without a huge stone revetment, he, his engineers and lawyers believe, his home will fall into its water view.
But the West Tisbury conservation commission said no to his plan to armor the shoreline, and so now Mr. Edens, a prominent Wall Street financier, and the town are headed for court.
