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Every spring a benefits fair is sponsored by Dukes County and the Cape Cod Municipal Health Group, the provider of health insurance for municipal employees and their families. This year the event will include wellness programs.
The fair will be held Friday, May 15 from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs School.
Providers of traditional, complementary or alternative medical care, yoga instructors, massage therapists, nutrition counselors and others are asked to please call Tammy at 508-696-3845 to reserve a spot. Space is limited.
In business on the Vineyard, one man’s downturn is another man’s opportunity. Particularly in spring.
“Why here?” said Douglas Hewson this week, sitting in the building site of the new venue for Mediterranean, a building recently vacated by Lola’s restaurant following a 15-year run.
“In a word? Potential. We traded our water view for 75 parking spaces.”
An uncertain economy coupled with unpredictable weather in the late summer has forced the cancellation of cruise ship visits to the Island this year.
The mammoth ships usually come into Oak Bluffs several times during late September and early October. But representatives from Norwegian Cruises and Royal Caribbean told town officials last month they were cancelling.
Tisbury voters will be asked to take an important step on the way to addressing the town’s burgeoning problem of unfunded liabilities for its retired workers, at a special town meeting Tuesday night.
A recent report on the problem by Jon Snyder of the town finance and advisory committee estimated the town’s unfunded liability for post-retirement benefits — largely health care — stands at some $19.5 million. Mr. Snyder further estimated the liability for all the Island towns and regional entities at almost $90 million.
Four suspects arrested in November in one of the largest heroin drug busts in Island history will face multiple felony drug charges later this month in Dukes County Superior Court during the spring court session.
The accused are Kaleb C. Garde, 26, of Vineyard Haven; Roseline J. Gaspar, 24, of Vineyard Haven; Garrett J. Gibson, 24, of Oak Bluffs; and Alexander W. Carlson, 22, of Edgartown.
The chief executive officer of Festival Network, the national entertainment promoter that has held a concert in Ocean Park featuring the Boston Pops for the past two years, has said the future of the concert is in doubt, largely because it lost money last year.
CEO Chris Shields has also leveled harsh accusations at the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard, saying that the nonprofit organization still owes his company thousands of dollars from ticket sales last August.