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In their effort to buy and preserve the Field Gallery and its sculpture garden for posterity, West Tisbury selectmen have singled out one town body in particular for funding. On Wednesday selectman Cynthia Mitchell was blunt with the Community Preservation Committee.
“Essentially what we’re here to ask is, can we have all your money?” she said.
For many months up-Island has been a place of quiet, windswept beauty, the destination mostly for winter walks or slow drives through the country. This will change next weekend, though, as the Chilmark Community Center becomes the place to be on the Island for three days and nights of nonstop movie watching.
Three Oak Bluffs landowners on Crystal Lake and Brush Pond have been cited for clear-cutting trees and vegetation in violation of the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and the town’s wetlands bylaw. The Oak Bluffs conservation commission has ordered the property owners to carry out restoration work in the coming months to repair the damage.
Coast Guard Information
Tomorrow morning, local members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will be hosting an informational meeting at the American Legion Hall in Vineyard Haven. Interested boaters are encouraged to drop by at 9:30 a.m. The meeting runs until noon.
Down-Island representatives have a simple suggestion for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission as it reviews its checklist for referring developments of regional impact: get rid of it.
Arguing that the commission had outgrown its original chartering legislation, on Monday members of the Edgartown and Oak Bluffs planning boards met with the commission and submitted a joint letter calling for the abolishment of all mandatory referrals.
The cause of a Saturday night house fire in Oak Bluffs is still unknown this week but Oak Bluffs fire chief Pete Forend said on Thursday that there was no indication that foul play was involved.
Chief Forend said that about 40 Edgartown, Tisbury and Oak Bluffs firefighters responded to the 79 Linton avenue home of Maurice O’Connor and Beth Blankenship at 7:30 p.m. last Saturday. They took just over an hour to get the fire under control, staying until 11:30 p.m. to fight the blaze. No one was hurt.