The popular three-day summer concert Beach Road Weekend, which brought thousands of visitors to the Island, will no longer call Martha’s Vineyard home. Vineyard Arts and Culture Foundation announced in a press release on Wednesday that financial struggles pushed the festival and the MV Concert Series off-Island; the foundation says that the music festival will […]
Tisbury is supporting an effort to diminish the impact of the invasive Southern pine beetles on woodlands within its borders, possibly employing a tool that hasn’t been used within Massachusetts yet. On Wednesday, Jan. 10, the Tisbury Select Board unanimously approved supporting an application with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to permit a […]
Someone dared utter the word “regionalize” on the Vineyard, and fires did not ignite spontaneously, massive waves did not crash over the Island, and locusts did not emerge to terrorize us. At a recent meeting between the Tisbury select board and the finance committee, finance committee chair Nancy Gilfoy told those assembled that Tracey Jones, […]
In a joint meeting with the select board on Wednesday, the Oak Bluffs finance and advisory committee recommended an increase to the town’s ferry embarkation fee. Finance committee member Sherry Countryman said the overall goal of an increase is “to make improvements and enhance the revenues in the town.” Countryman said she’s been in communication […]
At a joint meeting of Tisbury’s select board and finance committee, finance committee chair Nancy Gilfoy announced that ambulance director Tracey Jones is retiring. In conversation with Jones, Gilfoy told those at the meeting that “the dreaded regionalization word came up” as a way to address the challenges the EMS department faces. “While the emergency […]