Public opinion is beginning to heat up on the Cape and Islands over a proposal for a private alternative energy project that envisions a giant offshore wind farm anchored across some 28 square miles of Nantucket Sound.
The Martha's Vineyard Commission will host a public hearing on the project on Tuesday, Jan. 15, in the lower level of the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. The hearing begins at 6:30 p.m.
The purpose of the hearing is to gather public comment, although the commission has no formal jurisdiction over the project.
Oak Bluffs Presents Passionate Defense of the Martha's
Vineyard Commission Before Legislative Committee Hearing
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
An overflow crowd from Oak Bluffs and other Vineyard towns turned
out for a state legislative hearing yesterday that was marked by an
outpouring of passionate support for the Martha's Vineyard
Commission and the unique role it has played in the protection of the
Island for the last 28 years.
Affordable Housing Project Is Pushed by Golf Developer and Partner
in Oak Bluffs Woodlands
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
Against a backdrop of quiet maneuvers to develop yet another plan
for a private luxury golf club in the southern woodlands, a massive
affordable housing project planned for the same property in Oak Bluffs
is now on track for review by the Martha's Vineyard Commission.
Steamship Authority Board Offers Top Job to Veteran of Marine
Transport Company
By JULIA WELLS
In the end they decided to offer the job to the guy with the
battered briefcase.
"There's that case again," mused Falmouth
Steamship Authority governor Galen Robbins as Fred C. Raskin set the
scarred, antique leather case on the table in front of him, just before
his final interview with the boat line board.
Health Survey Seeks Broad Profile of Medical Needs to Strengthen
Delivery of Care to All Islanders
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
Marking the first-ever study of its kind on the Island, a
wide-ranging scientific health survey will be launched this winter that
is aimed at developing a comprehensive health report for the Vineyard.
Commission Confronts Pressures from Oak Bluffs Selectmen and
Developers to Expedite Plan; Compromise Is Reached
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
The high-speed chase to force quick approval of a luxury golf and
housing project in the southern woodlands section of Oak Bluffs
continued without letting up last week when the Martha's Vineyard
Commission took up an unusual request to hold a high-speed public review
of the development plan.
Fierce Debate Is Expected in Collision Between New Bedford and the
Islands for Steamship Authority Control
By JULIA WELLS Gazette Senior Writer
A fiercely contested legislative bill to reorganize the Steamship
Authority board of governors is now on the move and set for debate and
vote on the House floor on Beacon Hill next week.
Trustees at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital scrambled to
contain the damage this week in the aftermath of last week's
announcement by a respected Vineyard surgeon that he will sever his
contract with the hospital.
The developer of the Down Island Golf Club told the Martha's
Vineyard Commission last week that the members of the private luxury
golf complex he hopes to build will be "rich people" who
will bring no real benefit to the town of Oak Bluffs or the Island.
