Updated A vehicle fire sent plumes of thick black smoke into the air near Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on Friday afternoon around 3:45. The Ford Transit van apparently rear-ended a white SUV, which resulted in the fire, according to Oak Bluffs Deputy Fire Chief Stephen Foster. Foster said Oak Bluffs Fire and EMS responded to an […]
They battled a flooded field from a thunderstorm that required Friday night’s concert to be evacuated, traffic snarls due to the Lagoon Pond Drawbridge opening two nights in a row, and escalating costs that put the three-day music festival about $2 million in the hole, but still Beach Road Weekend promoter Adam Epstein called this […]
The Democratic Council of Martha’s Vineyard and Indivisible Martha’s Vineyard are co-sponsoring the March for Voting Rights on Saturday, Jan. 15, at Five Corners in Vineyard Haven. The event is planned for 1 pm, according to a press release, but will not be held in the case of severe weather. This will be one of […]
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Pump the brakes on SUP
The shared-use path (SUP) proposed now under construction (and delay) by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven should be a cautionary tale for Oak Bluffs. The first phase of the Oak Bluffs project is designed to go from Lagoon Pond Drawbridge to the intersection of County and Eastville Avenue, with the idea of eventually having it go through downtown Oak Bluffs and connect to the existing SUP that leads to Edgartown.
No one fully did their homework on the SUP in Vineyard Haven, and now it’s a mess. It turns out there are water and sewer lines that will be costly to move in the way of the construction. In meetings closed to public access even though they’re talking about millions of dollars in taxpayer money officials from MassDOT and the town point fingers at each other. (We’ve asked for access to these meetings, and been told they’re not public.)