Plans to expand the store are proceeding slowly, with the planning board hearing results of a traffic study and an update about potential complications involving a bank branch next door.
Plans to expand the store are proceeding slowly, with the planning board hearing results of a traffic study and an update about potential complications involving a bank branch next door.
Stop & Shop representatives this week formally presented plans for a substantial expansion of the company’s grocery store in Edgartown.
Stop & Shop workers in the region that includes Martha’s Vineyard are at the bargaining table. Local 328 represents 11,000 clerks and cashiers at stores in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.
A traffic study of Edgartown’s seasonally-congested Upper Main street is the first step in a public review of a planned expansion at Shop & Stop.
Some 18 months after abandoning plans to expand its Vineyard Haven store, Stop & Shop unveiled preliminary plans this week for a huge expansion of its grocery store on Upper Main street in Edgartown, including a major redesign of the parking lots.
A bill to reform and significantly strengthen the Massachusetts Public Records Law is attracting midsummer heat on Beacon Hill, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers backing the bill try to strike a compromise with an opposition group that represents commonwealth cities and towns, including on the Vineyard.
