A glass of wine or beer at the end of the day is relaxing and may have health benefits, it is said.
West Tisbury selectmen want to clarify whether the town can restrict private companies taking water from public land.
Selectmen this week approved a request by conservation commission chairman Prudy Burt to ask town counsel Ronald H. Rappaport to review the town’s authority to regulate or prohibit water taking.
Ms. Burt said she had seen a dramatic increase in landscaping companies filling water tank trucks from the Mill Brook on Scotchman’s Bridge Lane.
Interrupted for lack of a quorum, the Aquinnah annual town meeting will continue on June 19 — and assuming enough voters turn out this time — the t
Seasonal workers for Island hotel and restaurant businesses could be arriving by ferry from New Bedford through an organized program within the next few weeks.
And a second proposed program, which would tap federal grant money, could be flying workers from New Bedford to the Island next summer, said Nancy Gardella, executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce.
In the wake of a budding plan by the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School to build a 220-foot wind turbine in West Tisbury, the town must develop additional regulations — and quickly — for windmills in town, selectman Richard Knabel said this week.
Last Friday afternoon at four o’clock, a woman on a red moped tossed a clear plastic water bottle off the eastbound side of the Edgartown-West Tisb
