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Dukes County was awarded $229,728 to support its 911 emergency dispatch communications center and enhance public safety. The grants came from the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and the 911 department.
Revetments, armories, groins, jetties, ripraps — the walls of stone built to protect a length of bluff from erosion go by many names, but in whatever guise they pose a growing threat to the Vineyard shoreline, according to several prominent Island environmentalists.
A proposal to turn the building that until last year housed the Vineyard’s only nightclub, Outerland, into a delicatessen and seasonal package store will go before the Edgartown zoning board of appeals April 8.
Alexis Garcia, who submitted the proposal last month, and who with her husband, Paul, owns Garcia’s in the former Back Alley’s store in West Tisbury, would not comment yesterday on the potential purchase of the premises at the airport in Edgartown.
Can you imagine a structure almost 300 feet tall, just a mile or so outside Edgartown? Well, a couple of weeks from now, you won’t have to; you’ll be able to see the pictures.
Staff at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) are even now doctoring recent photos taken from various points on Martha’s Vineyard, superimposing the image of a 640-kilowatt wind turbine on them.
Some Island beaches are getting plenty of attention.
Over a hundred volunteers gathered on the Oak Bluffs side of the Joseph Sylvia State Beach on Saturday morning to plant beach grass, part of an ongoing effort to stabilize one of the most popular beaches on the Island.
Meanwhile, the Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to come back to South Beach and to Chappaquiddick for a large-scale cleanup of leftover World War I and World War II ordnance. Their work will begin April 1, according to Chris Kennedy of The Trustees of Reservations.