The long-planned connector roads in Tisbury hit another speed bump last week when the town learned that it had been turned down in its application for $4 million in state funds to build the roads which aim to create a bypass from the congested State Road business district to the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.
Bouncing from venue to Island venue for years, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society would like to find a permanent home in a new state-of-the-art, 190-seat theatre off Beach Road now planned by developer Sam Dunn, who created the Tisbury Marketplace in 1984.
The passage of a bill that legalizes gambling casinos in Massachusetts has renewed hopes among the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) for a casino of their own.
With the flourish of a pen on Tuesday morning, Gov. Deval Patrick signed into law a bill legalizing casino gambling in the commonwealth. One day earlier the two members of the Cape and Islands legislative delegation blasted the move as both socially irresponsible and economically corrosive for the region.
“To me it’s indicative of a rudderless ship,” said state Sen. Dan Wolf. “I look at it as not being good for the district; we both voted against it,” said state Rep. Timothy Madden.
Islanders may not be aware that they are on a regimen of antidepressants, antibiotics and hormone therapy, but tests of Island wastewater have revealed that drugs and personal care products are present in the environment, if only at levels measured in the parts per trillion. While it is unclear what effect, if any, the presence of these highly-diluted chemicals has on the environment, Oak Bluffs could become the first wastewater treatment plant on the Cape and the Islands to remove them from their water supply.
A special town meeting in West Tisbury Tuesday night pitted the town’s humans against its dogs, as voters took up the divisive question of whether to continue to allow canines at Lambert’s Cove Beach in the summer.
“I don’t even go there anymore because the smell is so overpowering,” said Karen Overtoom. “I guess you have to decide whether the beach is for the people or the dogs.”
