Remy Tumin
Rickard’s Bakery wants to open a new store on North Summer street in Edgartown by mid-January.
The Vineyard Haven bakery is set to go before the Edgartown zoning board of appeals next Wednesday night, Dec. 8, to apply for a permit to operate a commercial kitchen in the condominium storefront in the newly built Summer street complex across from the Second Hand Store. The condo was recently purchased by Gates and Kate Rickard.
From Edgartown to Boston, from country wood posts to exposed steel beams, but not to worry, the lattes will stay the same.
For the past 18 years, Espresso Love has been an Edgartown fixture with its coffee, sandwiches and baked goods. Sometime early next year, Bostonians will be able to experience a bit of the Island on the mainland as Espresso Love opens a second location in downtown Boston.
Owners T.J. and Carol McManus plan to open a new 2,000-square-foot space on Broad street in the financial district, a few blocks away from Faneuil Hall.
Citing concerns about allowing prisoners out on work release in a summer camp setting, the Edgartown conservation commission decided this week to end a work release program between the Dukes County jail and the Farm Institute in Katama.
“Because it’s open to the public and there’s a summer camp there, it’s probably not a good idea for the Farm Institute to have a work release program,” conservation agent Jane Varkonda said at a meeting of the commission on Wednesday.
It took some work to get a quorum, but once that was done Aquinnah voters swiftly approved a series of articles at a special town meeting Tuesday night, including for new affordable housing sites and a delinquent property tax amnesty program.
When not enough people turned up, a small assembly of voters took out phone books and dialed people they knew to convince them to come out to the meeting. About 45 minutes later, applause broke out as the last voter needed entered the old town hall.
The Edgartown tax rate will increase for the fourth year in a row, part of a trend seen in an Islandwide climate of declining property values.
The selectmen voted to set the tax rate at their weekly meeting Monday afternoon, pending approval by the state Department of Revenue. The new tax rate is estimated at $3.40 per $1,000 of assessed property value, up from the current rate of $3.09 per $1,000.
I come from a family where everyone assumes a role in the kitchen. My brother mans the grill, you can usually find me elbow deep in sugar and butter, my father makes a mean Bolognese sauce, and my mother is one of those cooks who can whip up something delicious with whatever is in the fridge.
But there was one Hanukkah a few years ago where no matter what we did, dinner was bound for disaster.