A request to financially reward West Tisbury assistant emergency director Jennelle Gadowski for her role in the migrants situation in September opened up a larger conversation surrounding pay for West Tisbury emergency management workers. According to West Tisbury town administrator Jennifer Rand, the request came from Oak Bluffs Fire Chief Nelson Wirtz, not Gadowski. Rand […]
Members of the Up-Island Regional School District (UIRSD) gave their blessing to the Field Fund for access to the West Tisbury School’s non-potable well, providing a source of irrigation for adjacent town fields. At Monday’s UIRSD committee meeting, West Tisbury School principal Donna Lowell-Bettencourt said the Field Fund came to her because they are working […]
The West Tisbury select board considered using West Tisbury School as an emergency shelter as part of work proposed for the building. Recently, the Up-Island Regional School District presented recommendations for retrofitting West Tisbury School from the environmentally friendly school building task force. “Because of the potential size of the potential work that could occur […]
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission resumed its public hearing on the Meshacket Commons affordable housing project focusing on parking and traffic, as well as pedestrian and bicycle safety on that stretch of Edgartown-West Tisbury Road in Edgartown. Meshacket Commons is an affordable housing project with 36 rental and four homeownership units in Edgartown proposed by Affirmative […]
The environmentally friendly school building task force presented to the Up-Island Regional School Committee its recommendations for retrofitting West Tisbury School during a Monday evening hybrid meeting that will cost an estimated $26 million to $37 million, depending on which option is picked. Task force member Doug Ruskin said the school’s retrofitting will help meet […]