Sam Bungey
There was no crime on Gosnold Wednesday, a day much like any other. The only difference, this time it’s official.
“No incidents whatsoever,” announced the town’s first ever police chief, George Isabel. “There is nothing to report. The one problem was the rain, but there was no police action on that.”
The general impression is that the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market is having a slow start to its 35th year. Farmers are weathering a recession as well as the persistent rains which are dampening the enthusiasm of crops and shoppers alike.
Nailing down anything more specific, though, is hard work. There are 40 vendors at the West Tisbury market and as many prognostications about the coming season. The market opens from 9 to noon tomorrow for its second Wednesday, and for the fourth Saturday, July 4.
Ravaging of the river herring population by midwater trawlers and an absence of round-the-clock environmental police protection were the hot topics at a meeting between Cape and Islands Rep. Tim Madden and members of the newly formed Martha’s Vineyard Dukes County Fishermen’s Association Friday.
With rising concern over the health of Sengekontacket Pond, an application to build near the shore of the pond may fail where others, grander in scale and more intrusive in scope, have succeeded.
The latest in a series of town conservation commission hearings on a plan by John Lacroix to build a modest home on his waterfront property on The Boulevard drew vocal opposition from neighbors and the Friends of Sengekontacket, a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting the pond.
Historic low interest rates that have led to a flood of mortgage refinancings in recent months have by accident exposed a marked trend of slumping property values on the Vineyard.
In roughly 75 per cent of June home reappraisals conducted on behalf of Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank, the Island’s largest lender, properties were found to be below their assessed values.
According to bank president Chris Wells, it is an Islandwide, evolving trend.
With approval in hand from all but one Vineyard town, Vineyard schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss was all set to move ahead on a plan to relocate the superintendent’s headquarters when Chilmark selectmen grabbed his arm going out the door.