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As the Island faces continued growth in its congested commercial areas, one project before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission has begun to emerge as a symbol of the breaking point.
The Massachusetts Land Court has upheld the town of Aquinnah in a pivotal case that will ultimately decide whether a large swath of rare, salt-blasted coastal heathland along Moshup Trail remains forever wild or is opened up for development.
President Obama is due to land on the Vineyard on Thursday for a planned 10-day family vacation up-Island, and three days before the arrival few details have been released by the White House.
A sandy path to Lobsterville Beach in Aquinnah has been reopened to the public, halting, at least for now, a contentious land-use battle between the town and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).
In a letter to the Aquinnah selectmen dated Aug. 12, tribal council chairman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais confirmed that the path would be reopened.
It takes but one lantern of goodwill to light all the others. At least, that is the idea behind tomorrow night’s start to the beautiful Grand Illumination at the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association in the center of Oak Bluffs.
In a sequel to the failed effort of the board of the Quansoo Beach Association to frustrate access to two large parcels of south shore conservation land, the association’s annual general meeting has replaced its chairman, James B. White.
But Mr. White’s legacy remains, in the form of environmental damage caused by the necessity to bulldoze a new section of road to provide access to the conservation land, and a legal bill of more than $30,000 incurred by the beach association in its dispute with the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation.