There is at least one coyote living on Martha’s Vineyard. Gus Ben David is 100 per cent sure of that, although he has only 97 per cent proof.
The coyote, or coyotes, have established territory on the north side of the Island, in an area covering part of Chilmark and West Tisbury.
If Tisbury voters approve the sale of beer and wine in the town’s restaurants at the upcoming town ballot, how many licensed premises will they be signing up for?
The wording of the ballot question on the annual town meeting warrant, finalized this week, suggests the answer may be 19, or arguably 38, and possibly more.
Among the little group which toured Martha’s Vineyard’s new hospital on Tuesday, Gladys Welch, recently retried after 59 years as a nurse in the old hospital, and the older hospital before it, was bound to have had the sharpest sense of how much things have changed.
In this complex world, it seems everything affects everything else. And so, because Wall Street bankers metaphorically trashed much of the U.S. economy, the town of Tisbury was forced to literally trash much of its recycling effort.
Truly. It’s a bit of a convoluted story, but it begins with the amount of trash generated by the town of Tisbury, which was down 17 per cent last year, according to Tisbury’s director of public works, Fred LaPiana.
The tiny population of Cuttyhunk has won its David and Goliath battle with Comcast. The giant telecommunications company this week reversed its decision to pull the plug on the islanders’ do-it-yourself high speed Internet service.
Cuttyhunkers are expected to rejoin the modern world within the next week, as soon as Comcast can wrap up a formal vendor agreement with the man who had developed the island’s innovative wireless network over the past five years, Mark Storek.
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has been identified as one of the most expensive in Massachusetts in data compiled by one of the state’s major health insurers.
The numbers, from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, given this week before the start of state hearings into the rising costs of health care, found the Vineyard Hospital ranked number five among 72 hospitals in the state. Nantucket Hospital which, like the Vineyard hospital, is part of the Partners Healthcare network, ranked third.
