Plans for a new grocery store on State Road in Vineyard Haven put forward by Island entrepreneur Elio Silva have been fast-tracked at the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, which was expected to vote on the project last night.
The Oak Bluffs selectmen and town shellfish department vowed to work more closely this week after years of what the department has called neglect by the town.
Booked as a special workshop between the two town boards, Wednesday’s discussion ranged from understaffing on the waterfront to shellfish constable David Grunden’s expanding role in a variety of research areas not spelled out in his job description.
Simmering tension between neighbors and the owners of Goodale’s sand and gravel pit bubbled over before the Oak Bluffs selectmen this week, who decided to refer the entire matter to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for review.
Neighbors claim the pit is expanding without permission in possible violation of zoning rules for the area and encroaching on their use and enjoyment of their property.
If it’s a weeknight in Vineyard Haven then the strains of B.B. King or Howlin’ Wolf are likely spilling from the third story of an unassuming white house on Church street. There the Mourning Sons are crammed into the attic, mired in a tangle of extension cords and lit only by a bare lightbulb and that most uncompromising American form of music, the blues.
“We play until [drummer Zion Harris’] mom tells us to shut up,” says frontman and bassist Evan Hall.
Sewering the Ocean Heights section of Edgartown could go a long way toward restoring Sengekontacket Pond, a prominent marine scientist told the Martha’s Vineyard Commission this week.
If the weather finally turns a corner toward spring balminess in the coming weeks it may be nudged by the overwhelming outpouring of warmth seen at the West Tisbury School for principal Michael Halt, who returned to the school this week after a 15-month tour of duty with the U.S. Marines Corps Reserves in Afghanistan.
