The long agenda for the Tisbury selectmen this week included topics that ranged from oil in ponds to drugs in taxis, from the competence of moped drivers to interpersonal relations within town committees, from the construction of sidewalks on State Road to the dredging of the harbor. The board even looked beyond town boundaries to consider ways it might help its cash-strapped neighbor, Oak Bluffs.
On the external relations front, board chairman Geoghan Coogan suggested Tisbury should offer whatever help it could to Oak Bluffs.
Don’t describe Gov. Deval Patrick’s book, A Reason to Believe, as a political biography. He takes issue with both words: political and biography.
For a start, he argues, the book is not political in that it isn’t “directed towards a political end, a prelude to another campaign or settling old scores.”
And that’s generally true. The book dishes no dirt and canvasses no specific detail of policy positions. And Mr. Patrick has long promised he will not run again for his current job.
The banner of the king of Scots depicts a lion rampant, red on a gold background. In heraldic terms, that lion represents bravery, valor, strength and royalty.
But as it has fluttered on a pole outside the Scottish Bakehouse on State Road in Vineyard Haven over the past week or so, it has represented something else: frustration with town bureaucracy.
It flies there because bakehouse owner Daniele Dominick, has been told she is not allowed to fly the red, white and blue flag which used to be there, and carried the single-word message: “Open.”
Finally an offshore wind development plan for the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard has found broad acceptance.
In sharp contrast to the controversy which dogged every public meeting about the Cape Wind development in Nantucket Sound, a presentation last night about plans for a far larger development off the Island’s south shore went remarkably smoothly.
The town of Tisbury will extend the contracts of the people overseeing work on its trouble-plagued new emergency services building, at a likely cost of around $100,000.
The extensions — for the architects, HKT, and owner’s property manager and clerk of the works — were ticked off by the selectmen on Tuesday night at a meeting with the building committee, called to discuss the allegedly shoddy workmanship by the main building contractor, Seaver Constructions, lengthening delays and increasing costs and frustration.
The Martha’s Vineyard Museum expects to sign within days a purchase and sales agreement to buy the former Marine Hospital in Vineyard Haven for an undisclosed price.
The purchase of the historic property, perched on a hill above the harbor, would mark a major step in the museum’s long quest to find a new home for its historical collections outside of Edgartown.
Museum executive director David Nathans said yesterday morning he hoped to have a deal completed by week’s end.
