Mandy Locke
Tisbury Faces Buildout Issues
State Forecasts Show Potential for 1,000 New Homes and Over 2,000 More Residents Before Town Reaches Full Capacity
By MANDY LOCKE
In a town that claims the largest year-round population and the smallest geographic area, many citizens feel the crowding these days. And the thought of planting another 1,000 homes within Tisbury's six square miles or adding more cars to the Five Corners intersection adds fuel to recent public debates over growth within the town.
The ferris wheel's been planted, the entry forms returned, the dogs bathed, allowances saved, curfews set.
Final West Tisbury Buildout Adds 3,000 Citizens to the Population
By MANDY LOCKE
West Tisbury's development spurt in the 1970s felt more like a surge to the year-round community of 500 living in the up-Island rural township.
The fast and furious growth, which tripled the housing stock and nearly quadrupled the permanent population, loomed over West Tisbury's 17,372 acres through the 1980s. And the townspeople watched beloved farmland, which made up nearly half of the entire town in 1950, dwindle from 710 acres in 1970 to just under 500 by 1990.
Moving Houses Recycles Island History
By MANDY LOCKE
As hundreds of Vineyarders pile trucks with clothes, furniture and children this fall to shuffle to another winter rental, two Edgartown houses will join the mass migration.
Destined for the dump when the owners decided to build new homes on the picturesque properties, both a 19th-century Victorian on the corner of Davis Lane and Pease's Point Way and a 1960s gambrel-roofed house off Meeting House Way will be relocated to town-owned property for use as affordable housing.
Houses on Move Auction Raises $160,000
Islanders Press Drive to Ease Affordable Housing Crisis
By MANDY LOCKE
The scene was Vineyard ironic - hundreds of people gathering at the agricultural hall to shuffle "houses" for the sake of ending the Island's dreaded summer shuffle tradition.
On Saturday night, the handiwork of well over 100 Vineyarders who hammered, painted and molded everything from owl houses to lighthouses, playhouses to doghouses, brought in more than $160,000 at auction.
On Call: Hospital Emergency Team Cares for Island with Skill and Commitment
By MANDY LOCKE
A heat haze hangs over the Island, and gray-haired men chat about the need for rain as they make their way to the door. Just inside, a visitor leans over the counter and jokingly asks for a cure for summer. A nurse replies: "We have a pill in the form of a ferry ticket off the Island."
The scanner is quiet. No one rushes. No tears. No sign of crisis. Not yet.
But the day is young for the emergency department staff at Martha's Vineyard Hospital.