Dirt biking at Nip ’n Tuck farm does not rise to the level of a public nuisance, West Tisbury zoning inspector Ernie Mendenhall said at Wednesday’s meeting of the West Tisbury selectmen.
“I wrestled with this one,” Mr. Mendehall told the board. “I think dirt bikes really can be a nuisance. I’ve been back and forth with the bylaws and went over there to listen and in my opinion it’s a residential accessory use.”
A blast reverberated around the Island on Wednesday night as an off-Island team of Naval explosives experts detonated five potentially dangerous World War II-era bombs on the beach near Quansoo in West Tisbury.
On Wednesday morning a couple walking the beach near the cut between Tisbury Great Pond and the Atlantic Ocean discovered a suspicious object in the water and contacted the police.
Leigh Cormie searched the voter rolls at the American Legion in Vineyard Haven.
“There I am!” he said as a volunteer thumbed through the pages.
Taking his ballot into the voting booth, he officially exercised his democratic privilege for the first time — in this country at least.
“This is a big thing for me,” he told the volunteers in his vestigial Down Under accent as he affixed an “I voted” sticker to his lapel.
Three years after the Island Affordable Housing Fund saved the historic Denniston House in Oak Bluffs from demolition, it is applying for a permit from the Oak Bluffs historic commission to raze the building.
With a potentially generous state grant on the line, the West Tisbury Library trustees are gearing up for a grant application this winter to help underwrite an ambitious plan that would see doors to a dramatically expanded library open early in 2014.
Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football coach Don Herman expected his 200th win to be a private accomplishment. “I never mentioned anything to my players,” he said in an interview in his office at the high school on Wednesday. But last Thursday as the coach walked off the practice field he was amused to hear the team break from its huddle. “Two hundred!” they shouted.
