Unionized mental health counselors at Martha's Vineyard Community Services hesitated this week - delaying a possible move to strike while awaiting newly-promised face to face meetings with board members of the health and human services agency.
A strained encounter at Community Service's annual board meeting Tuesday afternoon, however, suggested the time out may not last for long.
It started two weeks ago when one of the four underwater cables
providing electricity to the Vineyard failed somewhere between Falmouth
and West Chop.
Then, last Saturday, a second cable failed.
The executive director of the Seafarers' Friends told a group
of Islanders on Wednesday night he is working on a plan to leave a
sizable portion of the Goldberg Fund to the Permanent Endowment Fund for
Martha's Vineyard.
Emotions Run High at Two Island Meetings:
Regional School Committee
By CHRIS BURRELL
See also: Vineyard Community Services
Land Court Upholds Power of MVC To Review 40B Housing Projects
Developer of Golf Club Will Appeal
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
For the second time in less than two years, yesterday a
Massachusetts Land Court judge ruled that the Martha's Vineyard
Commission has full power of review over low and moderate income housing
projects under Chapter 40B, a section of state law commonly known as the
anti-snob zoning statute.
The Lagoon Pond drawbridge will be closed for repairs from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. all next week while MassHighway workers replace some of the
bridge's structural steel. Traffic along Beach Road will be
diverted to the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road during those hours.
"This is part of the ongoing effort to make interim repairs as
we work toward installing the temporary bridge and eventually the
replacement," MassHighway spokesman Jon Carlisle said yesterday.
Halloween Celebration Spans the Generations
By C.K. WOLFSON
Despite whatever contentious spirits might occasionally lurk about,
this weekend once again proves the Vineyard is the kind of place where
things that go bump in the night are usually giggling, and children who
dart around in the dark and cluster at their neighbors' doors are
there to receive smiles and sweets.
Project on Hold
Tabernacle Is Battlefront on Camp Ground
By CHRIS BURRELL
Don't let the tranquillity of the Camp Ground fool you.
When residents got wind of plans to put the Camp Ground in debt in
order to finance a $1.9 million, full-scale restoration of the
Tabernacle, things turned political quickly.
Two months after a district court judge ordered a culinary arts teacher at the regional high school to pay back $20,000 he allegedly stole from the school, the Vineyard schools superintendent says he doubts aspects of the police investigation, including estimates of the money involved.
Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash says he is convinced the teacher, Peter Koines, is actually paying back more money than he took.
The notice is as clear as it gets: "The Boston Seaman's
Friend Society is leaving Martha's Vineyard." On Wednesday,
Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, a representative from
the Seafarer's Friend will outline a plan to leave after 114 years
of serving the Island.
