It’s a pretty safe bet that among the small group of people who walked a couple of miles through the Sheriff’s Meadow Middle Road sanctuary last Saturday, none was happier to be there than Adam Moore.
Not just because of the beautiful surroundings, with those views across Chilmark Pond to the Atlantic. Nor even because Mr. Moore, as executive director of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation for the past 10 months, is ultimately responsible for the stewardship of this and many other beautiful places on Martha’s Vineyard.
Everyone knows Martha’s Vineyard is a very windy place, right? The “Saudi Arabia of wind,” to use the vogue cliche among the boosters of wind energy.
Wrong. And, thinks Tyler Studds, who is something of an expert on wind generation, that’s a most regrettable perception.
Can you imagine a structure almost 300 feet tall, just a mile or so outside Edgartown? Well, a couple of weeks from now, you won’t have to; you’ll be able to see the pictures.
Staff at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) are even now doctoring recent photos taken from various points on Martha’s Vineyard, superimposing the image of a 640-kilowatt wind turbine on them.
Tisbury selectmen have dropped an article from the warrant for next month’s town meeting which would have proposed taking private land near the Tashmoo overlook, to preserve the view from disappearing behind a wall of trees. At least, for now.
In executive session on Tuesday night, selectmen Tristan Israel and Jeff Kristal decided to drop the idea while the town continued to negotiate with the owners of the trees, Thomas and Ginny Payette, of Tashmoo Farm.
Following a 77 per cent deterioration in its bottom line last year, and continuing declines in traffic, the Steamship Authority has again reduced services to Martha’s Vineyard.
Tuesday’s meeting of the SSA’s board of governors voted to reduce the number of daily round trips for the freight vessel Katama from a maximum of seven to four during the spring period from April 4 to May 18, to account for a decline in the number of vehicles, particularly trucks, coming here.
Martha’s Vineyard’s two community banks face hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra costs as a result of increased demands from the federal agency charged with protecting customer deposits.
The two local banks, the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank and Edgartown National Bank, neither of which was complicit in the reckless financial practices which precipitated the banking crisis, will nonetheless have to pay increased fees to help bail out customers of banks which go bust.
