The Rotary Club of Martha’s Vineyard and Martha’s Vineyard Community Services (MVCS) will hold a charity golf tournament in late September to benefit Island charities and MVCS’ human service programs.
Since its inception in 2002, the Vineyard Golf Club Foundation has distributed more than $1,300,000 in funds to more than 30 local nonprofit organizations. The foundation is now accepting applications for grants and donations from Island nonprofit and charitable organizations.
The Martha's Vineyard Commission backed away Thursday night from a push to redraw the Vineyard Golf Club's Island membership plan.
Commission members dropped the issue of the subjective selection process citing not principles, but politics. Commissioners openly acknowledged that pushing for a lottery system could do more harm than good, threatening an already strained relationship with a town board.
Using new lawyers but spelling out the same themes, the developers
of the Down Island Golf Club filed a lawsuit against the Martha's
Vineyard Commission late last week, attacking everything from the recent
vote to reject a luxury golf course project in the southern woodlands to
the enabling legislation that created the commission.
When Tisbury and Edgartown voted to withdraw from the Martha's
Vineyard Commission in the late 1970s, what followed was a procedural
and political tangle that went on for years.
In Tisbury, the fight was over the second slip for the Steamship
Authority. In Edgartown, it was about the rules for the coastal district
of critical planning concern.
Listening to the banter of benchwarmers in front of the Edgartown town hall, it's hard to tell if it's 1972, 1982, 1992 or 2002.
The characters have changed, but the themes stayed the same. The building trade is booming. There's a new home on every corner. The town can't house its young people.
"We've always been talking about growth. We've always thought we're growing too fast," said Larry Mercier, lifelong Edgartown resident and respected town official.
Emotions ran high throughout the final night of public testimony
regarding a Chapter 40B affordable housing development that, if
approved, would place 20 homes on 4.9 acres of land near Tisbury's
center.
Avoid Drinking Water Pending More Tests, Officials Tell Edgartown
Meadows Homes
By MANDY LOCKE
A new round of private well tests in an Edgartown neighborhood this
week intensified the mystery for Island officials working to pinpoint
the source of groundwater contamination spreading through the West
Tisbury Road subdivision.
"It's too much of a puzzle, too many unknowns at this
point," said Matthew Poole, Edgartown health agent, noting that
now 20 per cent of the homes tested have water unsafe for drinking.
High Nitrates Found in Home Wells Near Vineyard Golf Club
By MANDY LOCKE
High nitrate levels found in the private wells of a few Edgartown
homes off West Tisbury Road sent health officials scrambling this week
- trying to pin down the exact source of what could be a sizable
plume running through Edgartown Meadows subdivision.
More than a week into extensive testing, a few fingers point to the
homes' neighbor, the Vineyard Golf Club, an 18-hole private luxury
golf course that opened in May of 2002.
