The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted unanimously last week to approve a new two-story building at the Tisbury Marketplace on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven. The vote is a victory for developer Sam Dunn, who originally created the marketplace in 1984 and plans to build the new mixed-use retail and apartment building.
The vote concludes a process that began over a year ago when Mr. Dunn’s proposal was referred to the commission as a development of regional impact last fall.
The plan now goes to the town of Tisbury for review at the local level.
The state has responded to Island road maintenance concerns in a rather unusual way: it wants to hand the work over to the Vineyard.
At a meeting Wednesday night, Skip McCourt, district highway director for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (DOT), met with town officials to persuade them to take over the routine maintenance of state roads in their jurisdiction.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School football team remains undefeated after a rainy, windy and sometimes sloppy Friday night home opener against South Shore Vocational Tech.
Senior standout Randall Jette followed his 192-yard, five-touchdown rushing performance against Coyle-Cassidy with his first passing touchdown of the season, a 19-yard laser to T.J. Vangervan to help seal the 20-6 victory. Strong rushing performances by Brian Montambault and Chris Costello put the game away on a night in which both teams struggled against the elements.
Island health boards are urging a newly aggressive approach to combating Lyme disease, proposing a five-year comprehensive study that would examine, among other things, drastically reducing the Island’s deer population.
The Vineyard study would piggyback off a recent report from the Nantucket Tick-Borne Disease Committee, which argues for culling its herd of approximately 2,500 deer to 500 or fewer animals, a process the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife expects to take roughly a decade.
A decision by the Martha’s Vineyard Commission decision to review the expansion of an Oak Bluffs restaurant last week spilled into heated words at the Oak Bluffs selectmen’s meeting this week, where board members questioned the commission’s role in determining town matters.
The Mallory Trophy was originally offered to Lord Horatio Nelson by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire after the admiral’s victory over Napoleon on the Nile. Now it belongs to two Vineyard sailors after their victory over the field in the U.S. Men’s Sailing National Championship.
After a windy weekend in Sheboygan, Mich., the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club’s Paul Wilson and William Stevens, along with the Naragansett Yachting Association’s John Plominski, won the most prestigious amateur event in sailing in thrilling style.
