Remy Tumin
No further subdivision will be allowed in the Sweetened Water subdivision in Edgartown for now, the town planning board ruled last week.
At issue before the board was a Form A application from Sweetened Water resident Dwight Arundale to divide his 2.6-acre lot into two parcels. Technically called approval not required, the Form A process allows simple subdivisions on land with adequate road frontage.
There’s something perfect and pleasing about lingering over a cup of coffee and a freshly printed newspaper early in the morning.
In a new short film, Morning Copy, Greg and Dan Martino try to capture the essence of those few hours before the rest of the world wakes up.
“This Island is hungry for another Jaws,” Greg said over coffee this week at Espresso Love in Edgartown. He and his brother Dan are hungry to be the ones who make that happen.
“There should have been a hundred more movies like it,” Greg said.
Tourism at the Gay Head Cliffs may get a boost this summer. The executive director of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum told the Aquinnah selectmen this week that the Gay Head Lighthouse will be open weekdays beginning June 21.
David Nathans said the new hours at the lighthouse will provide more sightseeing opportunities for tour bus companies by being open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Out with the old library and in with the new may take on a new meaning at the annual town election in Edgartown next Thursday. Against a backdrop of heated discussion in recent months and weeks over plans for a new town library, three seats on the library board of trustees are being contested.
Julie Lively is challenging incumbent Ellen Kaplan for a one-year term as library trustee. In a telephone interview this week Mrs. Lively said she was inspired to run when she saw a presentation about the potential new library.
Pending the ability to hire an accredited teacher, high school leaders announced this week that driver education will return to the regional high school next fall.
Former head of the state police, Neal Maciel, is set to begin teaching in the fall once he receives the proper teaching credentials from the department of motor vehicles.
Matt Tobin has been a horticulturist for 40 years and organically inclined for just as long, but he has more than a green thumb.
“I’m very conscious about organics and being green, but I like to call it bright green. A lot of green isn’t so green, it has a lot of petroleum wrapped around it,” Mr. Tobin said on a rainy afternoon this week at Eden Market and Garden Center in Vineyard Haven. “You are what you eat. If you eat good food, you’re good folk.”