He’s an academic and an adventurer, an Oxford-educated expert in Sanskrit who 50 years ago traveled overland from Damascus to Baghdad, then sailed across the Arabian Sea from Bombay to Aden in an untested boat with limited charts.
Foreclosure proceedings have begun on the Bradley Square property in Oak Bluffs, four years after the Island Affordable Housing Fund began an ambitious redevelopment scheme that never got off the ground.
The nonprofit housing fund — recently renamed the Martha’s Vineyard Housing Fund — owes the Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank almost $750,000 in principal, interest and late fees on a mortgage that has seen no payments made on it since at least last year.
Students Recognized
The Tisbury School held its Recognition Day for the fifth through eighth grades on Tuesday, June 14, 2011. During the ceremony, all students were recognized for their individual contributions towards a positive school environment. Students were honored for the strengths they bring. The following special awards were also given:
Jeffrey T. Goodale Memorial Award to Coralee LaRue – grade 5.
Dorothy Larkosh Roberts Award to Sienna Dice – grade 6.
The long agenda for the Tisbury selectmen this week included topics that ranged from oil in ponds to drugs in taxis, from the competence of moped drivers to interpersonal relations within town committees, from the construction of sidewalks on State Road to the dredging of the harbor. The board even looked beyond town boundaries to consider ways it might help its cash-strapped neighbor, Oak Bluffs.
On the external relations front, board chairman Geoghan Coogan suggested Tisbury should offer whatever help it could to Oak Bluffs.
The mystery of the sudden crackdown in Tisbury on businesses flying “open” flags has taken on the air of a whodunit, with restaurant proprietors suspecting it was initiated to harm their trade.
Enforcement of a bylaw relating to signs for commercial premises, which was ignored for years if not decades and of which most town officials, including selectmen, were unaware, began suddenly a couple of weeks ago.
The town building and zoning inspector Kenneth Barwick was the man doing the enforcing.
A decade after a seminal study showing the magnitude of the Vineyard’s housing crisis — in facts and figures, resident surveys and census data — a collection of Island affordable housing groups want to do it all again.
The Joint Affordable Housing Group, an informal committee that includes the various town affordable housing committees, nonprofit housing organizations and advocates, is trying to scrabble together approximately $30,000 to replicate a housing needs assessment carried out in 2001 and last updated in 2005.
