In an April 10 email to the commission, William Cumming said he is willing to replace the four retail buildings in his application with four two-story apartment buildings holding 36 dwellings.
One of the two ferry slips at the Steamship Authority terminal in Nantucket is out of commission after the M/V Eagle collided with and damaged the outermost dolphin, a cluster of pilings used to extend the berthing area.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission continued its public hearing Thursday on developer-landlord Xerxes Aghassipour’s proposed workforce housing project in Vineyard Haven.
Major construction at the Woods Hole terminal is due to wrap up for the summer before Memorial Day, but work will continue inside the ticket and waiting room building.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently chose not to renew a contract with Martha’s Vineyard Community Services for veterans counseling. But newly-appointed community services chief executive officer Dean Teague said on Thursday that the program will continue.
The Tisbury select board this week agreed to remove the benches from two bus stop shelters across from the Steamship Authority terminal in Vineyard Haven.
More than 50 Edgartown residents, including a baby or two, turned out Saturday afternoon for a candidates’ forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Martha’s Vineyard. The town election is April 10, following the annual town meeting April 8.
Caribbean carry-out food will not be on the menu at a new restaurant planned for the former Golden Bull steakhouse in Vineyard Haven, after MVTap owner Anderson Martins streamlined his application to do business at the long-empty Five Corners spot.
The manager of the Vineyard’s only homeless shelter has been going to the Island town governments in recent weeks in the hope that they will join Harbor Homes to start a committee or task force aimed at helping the growing homeless population.
