Wooden fence pickets up for replacement at West Tisbury Village Cemetery will not be replaced by polyvinyl chloride (PVC) after opposition from local historic preservationists. Members of the West Tisbury Historic District Commission say that the non–wooden material doesn’t fit the character of the area. “It’s a door that, once it’s opened, doesn’t close,” commissioner […]
Discussions on Howes House renovations will be halted until a conundrum surrounding the Up-Island Council on Aging membership is settled. Two West Tisbury representatives of the Up-Island Council on Aging, Nancy Cabot and Skipper Manter, who also chairs the West Tisbury Select Board, were found to be in violation of a bylaw stating members can […]
West Tisbury is questioning the state’s plan to deal with the invasive Southern pine beetle, raising concerns about the possibility of heightened fire risk. Select board raised the concerns during a meeting last week. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation plans to cut trees down in the West Tisbury portion of Manuel F. Correllus […]
The West Tisbury select board is considering getting rid of the town’s free electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, after a suggestion that wealthier car owners are using the stations. When first added to the town’s landscape, West Tisbury’s EV charging stations were all free to use in order to help encourage electrification, Kate Warner, a […]
A West Tisbury committee member who had been accused of having conflicts of interests for serving on two separate housing-related boards came out unscathed Wednesday after the town’s select board chose not to take action on the matter. In recent meetings, the West Tisbury select board had been tasked with deciding what to do with […]