Tony’s Market Promotes Manager Kelly Hill to VP

Tony’s Market, a grocery store in business at the same location in Oak Bluffs since 1877, has promoted store manager Kelly Hill to vice president, chief of operations. She also was elected a director of the company. Mrs. Hill has worked continuously at Tony’s since April, 1995 and has been its store manager since September, 2001. Previously the store has been managed only by its owners, the members of various families during its 133-year history.

Kelly lives in Oak Bluffs with her husband, David Hill, and two children.

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They Have the Heart and Take the Time

The family of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, made up of staff and volunteers, took a moment out of a busy spring to honor some of their own. At the Mediterranean restaurant in Oak Bluffs on Monday afternoon, more than 130 gathered to share in fellowship, to honor those whose hard work has helped the organization through almost 50 years of community work.

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Old Steamer Inspires Weathervane

The steamer Nobska is long gone, but now she has been preserved as a sculpture, at once beautiful and functional, to help ferry captains know which way the wind is blowing.

A copper weather vane made in the image of the Nobska sits high atop the new Oak Bluffs Steamship Authority terminal, which had its grand opening this week.

The Nobska ran from 1925 until 1973.

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YMCA Set to Open Next Month, With $3.5 Million Still Needed

Already the new YMCA building on the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road fits right in with the neighborhood, flanked by the Martha’s Vineyard Arena on one side, Martha’s Vineyard Community Services and the skate park on the other side, and the regional high school across the road.

And if your vision of a YMCA is rooted in past memories of dank, mostly windowless, poorly heated concrete buildings, look again. The Vineyard’s new YMCA is a marvel of open space and sunlight.

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Cape Air Owner Runs for State Senate

He is a pilot who became the owner of an airline that became one of the best small business success stories in the country. And now Dan Wolf, the owner of Cape Air, has decided to add politics to his CV. Mr. Wolf has announced he will run for the Cape and Islands seat in the Massachusetts senate that Rob O’Leary will vacate this year, when he makes his own bid for the seat in U.S. Congress that will be vacated by Rep. William Delahunt, who is stepping down.

Wait a minute, who’s on first?

Few Fishermen Join Saltwater Registry

Beginning this year, under a new federal law, recreational saltwater fishermen are required either to have a saltwater license or to have registered with their state. In Massachusetts, where a law requiring a license will take effect next year, fishermen are supposed to register.

But very few have.

Music, Dancing, Comedy Begin Again This Summer at Nectar’s

The boys from Nectar’s are back, scheduled to go before the airport commission this morning with a request to sublease for a second season the airport property that once housed Outerland and the Hot Tin Roof.

Their request comes with a recommendation for approval from the airport’s land use subcommittee, which discussed the sublease at its May 13 meeting.

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Ferries Are In at New Oak Bluffs Terminal

After more than a decade of planning and almost three years of construction, the Steamship Authority’s new Oak Bluffs terminal was officially opened on Wednesday, just in time for the start of the boat line’s seasonal service.

The chairman of the Oak Bluffs selectmen, Duncan Ross, flanked by the SSA’s general manager, Wayne Lamson and Martha’s Vineyard’s representative on the SSA board of governors, Marc Hanover, cut a red ribbon strung across the front door of the new building.

Affordable Rental Housing Applications Now Available

Applications for affordable rental housing in Oak Bluffs are now available through the Dukes County Regional Housing Authority, on behalf of TRI (The Resource Inc), a private, nonprofit corporation working in conjunction with the town of Oak Bluffs and the state Department of Housing and Community Development.

The new rental housing is in the Noyes building (formerly the Oak Bluffs library) and includes:

One studio apartment; one one-bedroom apartment; and one two-bedroom, fully accessible apartment. Rents range from $850 to $1,030 per month.

FAA Says Yes To Cape Wind

The Federal Aviation Administration this week gave its imprimatur to the Cape Wind development on Nantucket Sound, but with expensive strings attached.

In its decision, the FAA determined the 130-turbine wind farm would have “no substantial effect” on air traffic, but also insisted the project developers pay for the upgrading of radar covering the area.

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