The renovation of the up-Island senior center seems to be hitting pause again. Members of the West Tisbury Select Board agreed this week that they should slow down on the Howes House renovation plans and go back to square one, gathering input from the public and accessing the area’s needs, and even consider looking for […]
To the Editor: The plane that crash landed this past Saturday at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport brought into sharp focus what a great group of professionals staff the Airport. Due to their quick and effective response the pilot of that aircraft is alive. The passenger who managed to land the plane did an amazing job […]
To the Editor: The widespread flooding Friday, Dec. 23, is a good indicator of what’s to come more frequently, or perhaps permanently depending on anticipated events in Antarctica. All three down-Island towns and Menemsha saw major flooding around their harbors caused by storm-driven surges coincident with a new-moon high tide. As storms go around here, […]
The Dukes County Commission unanimously approved the state revolving fund (SRF) loan application the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission submitted, airport commission chair Bob Rosenbaum told his fellow commissioners during a meeting Thursday. “So, that’s moving ahead,” Rosenbaum said. “That was required for the September 15 deadline, which was met. So, we should be good to […]
Tetra Tech vice president Ron Myrick, whose firm has been handling testing and mitigation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) around the Martha’s Vineyard Airport area, notified the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission during a Thursday meeting about plans to use a remediation pilot program of “targeted PlumeStop application to assess mitigating further migration of PFAS” […]