The Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission has awarded Vineyard Wind the bid to lease the Duchess hangar complex at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport. The complex will be used as a helicopter base.
Martha's Vineyard Airport Commission
2014
April 10, 2014
The Dukes County commission voted Wednesday to appoint two new airport commissioners, ousting longtime commissioner John S. Alley and Benjamin L. Hall Jr.
February 20, 2014
A Martha's Vineyard Airport employee is at the center of a tangled web of charges and countercharges, including a complaint filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
2012
December 13, 2012
The Martha’s Vineyard airport commission has the authority to establish salaries for its employees independently of other county employees salaries, an attorney for the Dukes County commission said. In a letter sent by email to county manager Martina Thornton on Dec. 11, Darren Klein, an attorney with Kopelman and Paige wrote: “In my opinion, as long as the airport commission has sufficient funds appropriated through the enterprise fund or otherwise, the airport commission has the authority . . . to fix salaries as it sees fit.”
2006
June 15, 2006
The epic six-year battle over control of the Martha's Vineyard
Airport has ended not with a bang, but with the mailing of checks.
In the end, the court case at the center of the battle cost at least
$608,374 - in payments to the two airport managers who brought the
lawsuit and in legal fees charged by the attorneys.
March 23, 2006
County Names Four to Board
Airport Commission Appointments Are Made After Several Months of
Turnover and Uncertainty; Legal Questions Remain
By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer
In an anticlimactic meeting, the Dukes County commissioners
Wednesday appointed four new members to the Martha's Vineyard
Airport commission, the entity that the commissioners have battled for
years.
January 19, 2006
County Boards Collide Again
Two Resignations Are Tendered, Two Appointments Rescinded on Airport
Commission; Confusion Now Reigns
By JAMES KINSELLA
Gazette Senior Writer
Resignations and rescinded appointments Tuesday shattered the
fragile peace between the Dukes County Commission and the Martha's
Vineyard Airport commission.
