Oak Bluffs Town Board Grants Hospital Request for Special Permit to Construct Larger Facility in Eastville Area

The Oak Bluffs zoning board of appeals last night unanimously approved a special permit for the $42 million renovation and expansion of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital. The decision will allow the size of the overall campus and the height of the main building to exceed what is normally allowed under town zoning bylaws.

Oak Bluffs Town Board Grants Hospital Request for Special Permit to Construct Larger Facility in Eastville Area

The Oak Bluffs zoning board of appeals last night unanimously approved a special permit for the $42 million renovation and expansion of the Martha\'s Vineyard Hospital. The decision will allow the size of the overall campus and the height of the main building to exceed what is normally allowed under town zoning bylaws.

A proposal to legalize the sale of beer and wine in restaurants and a request to buy a piece of property for $1.65 million for a new emergency services facility top the warrant for Tisbury's annual town meeting on Tuesday, April 10.

The warrant also carries 14 spending requests to override Proposition 2 1/2, the state-mandated tax cap on property tax levy increases.

Something about the songs of those sneaky little night peepers we call pinkletinks is both timely and timeless.

Their peeps mark a specific time each year, that window when the world begins to thaw and a promise of warmer days hangs in the air, but they span the years, too, connecting people to their youth, when they trolled through swamps with a net and a mason jar hoping to catch one of the tiny frogs.

In the middle of February, Kevco Professional Painting owner Kevin Morris normally would be painting indoors.

Instead, he was loading power washing equipment into his pickup truck to go work on a customer's back deck.

Winter on the Vineyard typically is a far cry from being pleasant for outside work. But this winter has not been a typical, adding up so far to one of the least snowy on record. That day last month, Morris found, was a sunny 50 degrees.

It’s winter, the wind is howling, the chill is to the bone, and the muddy spaces in the Manuel F.