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Summer Parking Rules
The Oak Bluffs police department will be enforcing overtime parking violations on Sundays and holidays throughout the summer season, according to a police statement aiming to clarify any confusion by residents who assumed that there was no enforcement on those days.
Acting over strong objections from the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital emergency room director, Chilmark selectmen voted unanimously to appoint Paul (Zeke) Wilkins as permanent chief of the Tri-Town Ambulance Service on Tuesday night.
Dr. Jeffrey Zack, director of the hospital ER, said he had reservations about whether the new chief had enough paramedic experience to be able to lead the squad that serves Chilmark, Aquinnah and West Tisbury.
“This is about providing quality care,” Dr. Zack told the selectmen.
Better coordination and a new procedure for posting elections are needed in Oak Bluffs, selectmen said on Monday at a special session.
Town administrator Michael Dutton, constable David Oliveira and town clerk Deborah deBettencourt Ratcliff were caleld to discuss last week’s improperly posted special election.
Mr. Dutton offered apologies and took responsibility for the problems with the special election, which saw a turnout of about half the voters (559) as the April 2010 election (1163 voters). There are 3,195 registered voters in town.
A large house donated to Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard finally made its way down State Road Wednesday in two large pieces and was delivered to the Bailey Park Road Community Housing off Old County Road in West Tisbury.
The house, at one time a store, was donated by the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank to the housing project. It was previously located where the financial services office for the bank sits today. The bank also donated the moving costs.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission must hold a public hearing to decide whether the operation at Goodale’s pit in Oak Bluffs requires review as a development of regional impact (DRI), the commission executive director has said.
The decision to hold the hearing comes after some confusion about whether the town of Oak Bluffs had referred the site to the commission as a concurrence review or a discretionary referral, two different commission procedures.
A new restaurant on South Water street was granted a seasonal beer and wine license by Edgartown selectmen on Monday, but a one-day license for clothing store Jack Wills was denied.
Greenhouse restaurant applicants Pat and Ted Courtney said they intend to run a family dining restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating out of a converted greenhouse behind the Capt. Obediah and Capt. Convery houses. The selectmen approved the license unanimously and wished the brothers good luck.