Revised Yellow House Plan Attracts Lone Bid
A sole applicant is in the running in Edgartown’s second search for someone to lease and renovate the Yellow House.
Sara Brown
Following a site inspection the Oak Bluffs board of health did not renew a certificate for the Martha’s Vineyard High School’s culinary arts program, but school officials said the program has continued to operate with the approval of the board of health.
School principal Stephen Nixon told the Gazette Thursday that the board of health came in during the school year to do a regular site inspection at the culinary arts kitchen (which is separate from the school cafeteria), and felt the kitchen was not in compliance.
A West Tisbury man is being charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after allegedly hitting a police officer with his car when the officer tried to stop him for a drug investigation.
Asa W. French, 27, of West Tisbury, was arraigned March 4 in Edgartown district court on a March 2 charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a motor vehicle).
The Edgartown Planning Board Tuesday approved part of an application to move a Chappaquiddick house threatened by erosion.
The board got its first look Tuesday at plans to relocate a 5,500-square-foot house at Wasque Point owned by Richard and Jennifer Schifter, as well as a 1,150-square-foot guest house and a 1,140-square-foot garage. The Schifter property has been threatened by rapid erosion over the last year; the coastal bluff is now 50 feet away from a stone pool enclosure.
The graduation rate at Martha’s Vineyard High School remains above the state average, though the 2012 drop-out rate increased over the previous year.
Just over 94 per cent of students graduated in 2012, according to data from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Out of 153 students in the class, 2.6 per cent dropped out. Just over one per cent of students received a GED.
Coming back to Edgartown this year: a leprechaun-sized Saint Patrick’s Day parade.
Selectmen approved the Kelley House Inn and Newes from America Pub’s request to host the second annual Saint Patrick’s Day parade on March 17. The parade will follow a two-block route from the bottom of Main street to the top of Kelley street. Kelley street will be closed to traffic from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
A planning board hearing next week will address plans to move two homes on Chappaquiddick.
Plans have been filed with the board to relocate Richard and Jennifer Schifter’s home at Wasque Point, which is threatened by rapid erosion. When the house construction was completed in 2007, it was 220 feet away from the bluff; today the eroding bank is about 50 feet away from a stone pool enclosure next to the house.