A new restaurant in a well-known location got the green light Wednesday from the Tisbury planning board, which voted unanimously — but with conditions — to issue a special permit for MV Tap.
Tisbury’s select board has approved a common victualer’s license for the dual eatery proposed for the former site of the Golden Bull steak house at Five Corners.
Drive into Five Corners in Vineyard Haven from any direction and one is confronted with a hodgepodge of commerce and signage, and a confusing array of asphalt options.
A new restaurant partnership is preparing to reinvent the long-vacant Golden Bull steakhouse in Vineyard Haven as a pair of casual eateries: MV Tap and Vineyard Caribbean Cuisine.
A team of workers digging near Five Corners this week discovered a patch of toxic, contaminated soil that may force a major environmental cleanup of the Beach Road extension area.
Contractors hired by the Massachusetts Highway Department found soil contaminated with gasoline and oil while digging on Beach Road extension next to the Wintertide Coffeehouse. The contractors were working on a drainage pipe project from Beach Road to Vineyard Haven harbor when they made the discovery.
Contaminated soil underneath Beach Road extension in Tisbury is so widespread that the entire area — including the beachfront lining Vineyard Haven harbor — is under investigation by the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).
DEP investigators were in Tisbury this week to examine soil along the Beach Road extension, where contractors hired by the Massachusetts Highway Department to lay drainage pipe instead found soil polluted with gasoline and oil.
The town, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center, will create a larger underground basin to allow better water flow out to the sea. Work could start later this year.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has begun working on potential solutions for Five Corners, the traffic-plagued, flood-prone intersection in Vineyard Haven.
