Sam Bungey
Four couples will compete Monday for the chance to buy a three-bedroom affordable housing property in Edgartown.
The house, which is located on a 2,100 square foot lot on 22nd street and will be on sale for $262,000, was bought back by the town after the previous owner died before a ten-year restriction on ownership in his deed was up. Each couple works in Edgartown. One couple, who both live and work in Edgartown, will get two lottery tickets.
The lottery will be held at 5 p.m. in the selectmen’s meeting room at the Edgartown town hall.
When Elio Silva quietly opened his State Road store the Tisbury Farm Market last fall with a limited stock of coffee, yucca and a few more low-cost products, he began expanding immediately — responding to customer requests to include gourmet and organic produce and substantially undercutting Island competitors in the process.
Meanwhile, down the road in a red barn currently housing a signless, nameless Brazilian store, he has added a large basement kitchen, hired several chefs and is buying in product for a new gourmet grocery and health food store.
As a team of surveyors prepares to prep the Vineyard for the 2010 U.S. census, the dismal economy is adding bite to questions about accurately counting the transient Island population — since census numbers translate into government spending numbers.
The census provides a population snapshot of one day in April. It’s also a federal spending tool which the census bureau says accounts for some $300 billion in federal spending. Using census numbers, the government allocates spending for schools, roads, bridges, hospitals and other essential services.
Revetments, armories, groins, jetties, ripraps — the walls of stone built to protect a length of bluff from erosion go by many names, but in whatever guise they pose a growing threat to the Vineyard shoreline, according to several prominent Island environmentalists.
A proposal to turn the building that until last year housed the Vineyard’s only nightclub, Outerland, into a delicatessen and seasonal package store will go before the Edgartown zoning board of appeals April 8.
Alexis Garcia, who submitted the proposal last month, and who with her husband, Paul, owns Garcia’s in the former Back Alley’s store in West Tisbury, would not comment yesterday on the potential purchase of the premises at the airport in Edgartown.
A project to sewer the Island Grove subdivison will be delayed for a lack of funding, Edgartown wastewater facilities manager Joseph Alosso confirmed yesterday.
Meanwhile the wastewater department is seeking $3.4 million in federal grants for a larger sewering project in the Edgartown Great Pond watershed area, which would include the subdivision.
The project was originally expected to be voted on at next month’s annual town meeting after voters approved $70,000 to design the sewer lines at a special town meeting last December.