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Tansy Tea & Coffee is a new luncheonette in the Tisbury Market Place that’s taking a different approach to your everyday beverage and light bite. The colorful teas and tasty tidbits incorporate healthy and unique ingredients that you might not ordinarily find at your favorite breakfast or lunch spot, and Tansy does it with creativity […]
The Martha s Vineyard Times
Surprise rollback of Tisbury SUPÂ
Planning board and MVC members express reservations.
The Tisbury select board approved a reduction in scope Tuesday night for the Beach Road project. -Rich Saltzberg
Over the course of a marathon four-hour meeting Tuesday night, the Tisbury select board made a number of major decisions, led by a unanimous vote to narrow the scope of the Beach Road shared-use path (SUP) project. The vote, which took place at around 9 pm Tuesday night at a meeting that started at 5, essentially eliminated dedicated off-the-roadway paths for bicycles.
The vote followed a report from town administrator Jay Grande that indicated the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) informed the town Friday that it was willing to pare down aspects of the project that impacted local infrastructure, such as sewer lines. Grande reminded the board Tisbury town counsel David Doneski sent a letter to MassDOT on March 5 to expre