Island musicians once again gathered at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs to play songs and raise money for Island Elderly Housing. Performers included Jemima James, Willy Mason, Jessie Pinnick, Lexie Roth, Lilah Larson, Nina Violet, Elisha Weisner, Kit Orion, Caroline Sky, Colin Ruel and Isaac Taylor.
For the past two years, Island Elderly Housing has been raising funds to put automatic generators in every building at Woodside Village, a local senior residence center.
Spirits are high at Island Elderly Housing as residents and staff look forward to the second annual Songwriters Benefit Concert at the Tabernacle on June 29.
In a decision issued last week, the Hon. Douglas Wilkins remanded the Island Elderly Housing project back to the commission and ordered it to reconsider the project without that condition.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted narrowly to approve an Island Elderly Housing expansion project in the Aidylberg complex. But the approval came with a key condition: IEH must return with a redesign.
The Island Elderly Housing board of directors would like to clarify some issues raised at a May 5 Zoom meeting of the Martha's Vineyard Commission on the proposed elderly housing building to be located in Oak Bluffs.
What once was an empty basement room at the Woodside Village elderly apartments in Oak Bluffs now teems with furniture, exercise equipment and craft supplies in honor of late Woodside resident association president Josephine Moreis Tucker.
Architectural design remains a major sticking point on Aidylberg 3, the plan by Island Elderly Housing to expand its low-income housing complex off Wing Road in Oak Bluffs.