News
A Dukes County superior court judge has ruled that the town of Oak Bluffs must pay back some $35,700 in attorney’s fees to the town fire investigator, who won a court-ordered reinstatement last year after he was ousted by the fire chief two years prior.
As towns across the Vineyard begin to rethink their commitment to the Community Preservation Act, the tiny town of Gosnold, made up of the Elizabeth Islands chain, is jumping on board.
At Monday’s annual town meeting, voters approved the formation of a community preservation committee after the town voted to accept the Community Preservation Act on its November ballot.
Nesting season has begun for piping plovers, and Tashmoo Beach in Tisbury will be closed for the next month to protect a plover nest found Monday on the road leading to the public beach.
The town of Tisbury closed the end of Herring Creek Road and the beach on the recommendation of the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, which monitors shorebirds across the Vineyard. Shorebird monitor Liz Baldwin found the small nest and alerted the Massachusetts Audubon Society sanctuary on Monday.
Sharky’s Cantina will enjoy a growing presence on Circuit avenue this summer after Oak Bluffs selectmen approved an indoor-outdoor 24-seat expansion for the popular year-round restaurant on Thursday. The expansion into a deck in a neighboring building is not contiguous with the restaurant and will require wait staff to cross an alley that also serves as an entrance to the Camp Ground.
Friends, family and colleagues gathered on Tuesday morning to remember Arthur R. Railton at a service in the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. An editor, writer, sailor and historian, Mr. Railton, who lived in Edgartown and Chilmark, died on Thursday, May 19 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital at the age of 95.
It was the seventies, and Julie Robinson was 27, divorced and “trying to figure out what the heck to do with myself,” as she puts it now. “I wanted to do more with my life.”
Unfettered and newly a member of the women’s liberation movement, she drove out to California to visit a friend on her boat. “I met my husband, Dennis [White], on the boat next to ours,” she recalled, perched on a plush sofa in a back room of her business, Julie Robinson Interiors.