Remy Tumin
Lots of roses.
That’s what Simon Athearn and his wife, Robyn, are envisioning for their first spring garden next year in their new house in West Tisbury. The newlyweds are moving into Simon’s great-uncle Leonard’s house off New Lane in the next few months after purchasing it from Simon’s family.
Reacting to the pending demolition of an early 20th century bungalow, the Edgartown historic district commission began discussing the possible expansion of the historic district this week.
The Morse street bungalow, slated to be torn down and replaced with a three-bay garage, sits just outside the historic district.
Preliminary designs for a new U.S. Coast Guard boathouse in Menemsha failed to impress the Chilmark selectmen this week.
“It’s mammoth,” selectman and board chairman Frank Fenner said at the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday. “That was the largest structure in the harbor to begin with and this is just increasing it. It was very disturbing to me when I saw it.”
“It’s way too large,” agreed selectman Jonathan Mayhew. “I’m flabbergasted.”
It’s been five months since Rhode Island beekeeper Everett Zurlinden arrived on the Island to teach prospective beekeepers how to keep hives, and at the Living Local Harvest Festival last weekend he had an apiary report card to share.
There was good news and bad news, Mr. Zurlinden said. The status of the invasive vero mite, queen honeybee quality issues and honeybee temperament are all areas of concern, but the veteran beekeeper said the biggest question centers on how many honeybees one small Island can support.
The Vineyard is a place of healing. It’s a community of healers, with acupuncturists, chiropractors and other alternative medicine practitioners, where yoga practice is a mainstay in many people’s lives. In yoga they say wherever you are is perfect, whether you’re halfway up in downward dog or halfway down in eagle pose, but sometimes half the battle can be getting to that pose among the overwhelming number of yoga options available here.
Town employees can expect to feel the pinch from rising health care costs in the coming year thanks to municipal health care reform legislation that will shift the burden of paying for health insurance away from towns and onto workers.
The new state law passed in July makes it easier for towns to bargain for health insurance plans with unions and allows towns to move their employees to the less costly health insurance plans used by the state through the Group Insurance Commission (GIC).