The asking price on the house may top $1 million, but if there aren't enough nails on the deck joist hangers or felt paper under the roof shingles, you can bet Donald Cronig is going to make a stink about it.
Expert Finds Town Assessment Methods Fall Outside Norms, Skewing
Land Values
By IAN FEIN
BOSTON - An expert land appraiser testified in a legal hearing
last week that West Tisbury assessors damaged the integrity of the
town's land values when they manipulated data on a property record
that resulted in irrational increases to some assessments and property
taxes.
Shellfish Markets Report Slow Sales
By James Kinsella
Gazette Senior Writer
The sale of local shellfish has sometimes slowed but hasn't
stopped on Martha's Vineyard, which has become an Island of
harvestable shellfish in a sea of toxic red tide.
Louis Larsen, owner of the Net Result in Vineyard Haven, which
wholesales much of the Vineyard shellfish to local restaurants,
estimates that overall Island demand for shellfish is off 50-60 per cent
from normal mid-June levels.
Bakery Owner Retains Name
Judge Rules in Humphreys Case, Handing a Victory to Mr. Diaz on
Rights to Name, Recipes; Civil Trial Still Possible
By IAN FEIN
Humphreys owner Joseph (Michael) Diaz may continue to use the
bakery's name and recipes at his down-Island locations, a superior
court judge ruled on Friday.
Red Radishes, Green Bok Choy Fill First-of-Season Farm Basket
By RACHEL KOVAC
The West Tisbury Farmers' Market opened Saturday morning under
a gray sky. And while the number of vendors is down this year, shoppers
making a trip to the Grange Hall grounds still came away with the best
of the Vineyard's farms and fields, along with homemade jams,
baked goods, fruits and herbs.
An overflow crowd of Chilmark voters turned out last night to
approve the first-ever town-sponsored affordable housing development for
this rural community whose property values rank among the highest in the
commonwealth.
Island's Own Albert Clements Captures Victory at Speedway
By MAX HART
You have to look hard to catch the blur of white and black zooming
around the oval-shaped, quarter-mile stretch of asphalt at close to 90
miles per hour.
If recent health data is accurate, suggesting that the rate of problem or binge drinking on the Vineyard significantly exceeds the nationwide averages, then it should come as no surprise that Vineyard House is bursting at the seams.
The bloom of toxic red tide that closed shellfish beds from Maine to Nantucket spared the Vineyard this week, fading off the eastern shore of Chappaquiddick into Nantucket Sound.
Shellfish samples taken on Monday in Oak Bluffs, Menemsha and Edgartown came back clean in two separate rounds of testing, so no ponds were closed on the Vineyard, despite vague reports in the mainland print press of closures in Edgartown.
The conch fishery in Nantucket Sound has been closed.
Red Sox Nation Alert: World Series Trophy Pays Visit
Island Red Sox fans, your appointment with destiny has arrived.
As they continue in their push to bring the World Series trophy to
every town in Massachusetts, Red Sox representatives are hitting the
Vineyard today, making time for photo opportunities with fans across the
Island.
