Some 20 years ago, property developer Sam Dunn precipitated a major development battle with his plan for what is today the Tisbury Marketplace, a small commercial complex off Beach Road in Vineyard Haven. Now history could repeat itself, as he plans a new development beside the original.
As most recently advanced — Mr. Dunn has tried a couple of times since the original development — the planned building of some 7,000 square feet would be located on land between the marketplace and Lagoon Pond.
Tisbury voters have approved spending almost $7 million to build a new emergency services building.
By a margin of 562 votes to 397 they endorsed the borrowing of $6.8 million to construct the new building on Spring street, opposite the Tisbury elementary school, on town land which is currently the site of the town hall annex.
And by a slightly smaller majority — 538 to 404 — they approved borrowing another $115,000 to temporarily relocate the annex.
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital this week came a step closer to realizing a three-year plan to reshuffle the Island’s mental health and walk-in clinic services, and gain extra parking space at the same time.
The plan involves a three-way deal, in which land adjacent to the hospital, now owned by the state Department of Mental Health (DMH) will be handed over to the hospital to be used as a parking lot.
Tisbury residents will vote Tuesday on whether to take on some $7 million in new debt, and a consequent rise in their property taxes.
The election ballot includes five Proposition 2 1/2 questions — four of them relating to funding for the town’s proposed new emergency services facility — corresponding to articles voted on at last month’s special town meeting.
Compared with the distance it had already come, the little turtle’s voyage from Martha’s Vineyard to Woods Hole was short. The only unusual thing was, it went by ferry.
Shellbey, the juvenile Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, was in bad shape, you see. Made lethargic by cold and battered by the weekend’s storm, it was washed up injured on the Island’s north shore.
The town of Gosnold has written to the state indicating its willingness to allow wind turbines to be located in its waters, and its determination that it be able to negotiate its own terms for any development, free of interference from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.
