Remy Tumin
Following a meeting between the Cape and Islands legislative delegation and Comcast executives in Boston yesterday, cable television service for Chappaquiddick and other remote areas on the Vineyard inched a little closer to reality.
“They heard from us clearly that it’s very important for underserved communities on the Island to get Internet,” Seth Rolbein, senior advisor to state Sen. Dan Wolf, told the Gazette yesterday afternoon.
Final plans for the new U.S. Coast Guard boathouse in Menemsha are ready to go to the state historical commission for review, but they will go without the blessing of the Chilmark selectmen.
At a final public hearing held on Wednesday the Coast Guard design team presented few changes from the last design presented in December, save the window patterns, which now more closely match the original structure. The entrance has also been changed to a more simple design.
Days after a heated debate on whether the town of Chilmark should take on the issue of regulating large houses, the Chilmark planning board this week said they felt the support to move ahead with changing existing zoning bylaws.
The board narrowed possible restrictions at Monday’s meeting and focused on capping house sizes in relation to neighborhoods or lot sizes, regulating the amount of energy used and expanding existing district of critical planning concerns (DCPCs) to incorporate rules to regulate house size.
The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living may be closer to finding a permanent home.
The West Tisbury selectmen pledged their support this week for the center’s $400,000 state grant application to build a facility on a piece of land at the airport business park. The State Community Innovation Challenge Grant will be submitted through the town of Edgartown.
For chef Robert Lionette, food is an experience. It has a social and cultural history that goes beyond the flavors conjured up in a restaurant. It should have depth and meaning, and most of all, integrity.
This can take place in a restaurant or, as on a recent Wednesday morning, at his home cooking a breakfast of oatmeal and fresh squeezed orange juice with his son, Jack, age seven. Mr. Lionette is also a frequent volunteer chef at the Chilmark School, and Jack is always an avid participant.
The original posts and beams from the 1755 house sag with history. Bittersweet clings to the rafters of the 1850 barn. Milking stalls still stand from the 1950s, waiting for the cows to come home.
Tea Lane Farm has been many things in its more than 250-year history — a longtime dairy farm, once a vegetable farm and even host to a Revolutionary War contraband tea operation.
Now, with any luck the old farm off Middle Road in Chilmark will soon get another lease on life with a new tenant farmer.