The Martha's Vineyard Commission knows all about wrangling
over golf courses, but next Thursday night they will take up tennis when
they consider plans to build a youth tennis center near the blinker
light off Airport Road in Oak Bluffs.
The Martha's Vineyard Commission knows all about wrangling
over golf courses, but next Thursday night they will take up tennis when
they consider plans to build a youth tennis center near the blinker
light off Airport Road in Oak Bluffs.
It's true that Islanders, both young and old, are smoking pot, getting drunk and sometimes even getting behind the wheel of a car afterwards, but that's not the point.
Amid a long list of caveats about assumptions and the need for more data, Steamship Authority treasurer Wayne Lamson told the boat line board of governors yesterday that he is in the neutral zone when it comes to the financial impacts of the new service model for future ferry operations to the two Islands.
"I feel that we should continue to explore the viability of the service model. But a lot more information needs to be gathered, and certain assumptions need to be validated," Mr. Lamson said at the monthly boat line meeting in Woods Hole yesterday.
Housing Fund Initiative Advances Up-Island
Chilmark Voters Face Decision
By KATHERINE WILEY
Over the past few years, members of Chilmark's affordable
housing committee have had the hunch that citizens feel their town could
use more affordable housing.
After distributing a survey on housing approaches this winter, they
now have the numbers to back their theory up.
Housing Fund Initiative Advances Up-Island
Aquinnah Backs Preservation Act
By KATHERINE WILEY
At their spring special town meeting this week, Aquinnah voters
spoke with one voice and became the second Island town to approve the
Community Preservation Act.
Citizens approved the act with plenty of conviction; the article
passed unanimously after a short discussion that included no criticisms
of the measure.
Becoming the first Island town to pass the Community Preservation Act, voters in West Tisbury this week proved they could put their money where their mouth was when it came to affordable housing.
Predictions of this week's three-day northeaster were a bit of a reach. Hours before the storm arrived, Marshall Carroll, owner of Menemsha Texaco, said he thought he was going to lose his store. "The forecast was dire," he said, referring to the predictions for hurricane winds and a six-foot-high storm surge. Before the storm, Mr. Carroll said, "I looked at my building and thought of all the good times, and then thought maybe I will get another one. With a new store, I would get a better door." During and after the storm it was business as usual at the up-Island's outermost store.
In 1997, Vineyard House opened its doors for the first time. Last
week the organization added more doors, closing on the purchase of a
third house.
Like its first two homes, the Oak Bluffs house will serve as a place
where Islanders can recover from drug and alcohol addictions and begin
rebuilding their lives on the Vineyard.
By and large, the 40-odd Islanders who came out for last
night's forum on the Steamship Authority's new service model
accepted the logic behind the proposal but questioned the details that
will make it all work.
