After more than a year, the Tisbury selectmen finally appointed a new police chief this week, pending an examination of the possibility of Tisbury and Oak Bluffs merging their police departments.
The long hiatus, following the sudden departure of former chief John Cashin on May 22 last year, ended in a flurry of activity on Tuesday this week.
Tisbury selectmen this week approved the first four beer and wine licenses for town restaurants.
In sharp contrast to the long and contentious process which preceded them, the first four hearings were remarkably short, and all went through without a voice raised in objection.
Tisbury’s new police chief, Daniel Hanavan, is pretty much the polar opposite of his ebullient, literary and tempestuous predecessor, John Cashin. And Mr. Hanavan is not unhappy when comparisons are made.
Put it to him that he is exceedingly laconic, and his response proves the point: “Yep.”
Say that this contrasts sharply with Chief Cashin, who would talk under wet concrete, and Mr. Hanavan briefly laughs and says in his uninflected way: “He sure had the gift of the gab. The Irish in him, I guess. That’s not me.”
Following on the success of the Island Grown Initiative’s mobile poultry processing unit, the organization has won a $40,000 federal grant to look at doing something similar with four-legged livestock.
The grant was announced on Friday, as officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture came to the Vineyard to school locals on how they might share in hundreds of millions of dollars available from the government.
The long investigation into the cause of the September 2008 plane crash which took the life of Cape Air pilot and Vineyard Haven resident David D. Willey is over, its findings summarized in two words: “spatial disorientation.”
Cafe Moxie, the Tisbury restaurant destroyed by fire on July 4, 2008, seems sure to remain closed for a third summer season, its owner says.
Paul Currier said he now saw no way the rebuilding could be completed before the anniversary of the blaze, which also severely damaged the adjoining Bunch of Grapes bookstore, “and if you can’t open by July 4, you’ve pretty much missed the season.”
