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 […]
Martha’s Vineyard Airport director Geoff Freeman shared with the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission that the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) mitigation pilot project has begun and the PlumeStop installation process will be done by Friday, Dec. 9, during a Thursday afternoon meeting. Tetra Tech vice president Ron Myrick, whose firm handled the the testing and […]
This month, Yale SOM will host the inaugural event in the Donald H. Ogilvie Council on Anti-Racism and Equity (CARE) Colloquium, a speaker series aimed at bringing a diversity of perspectives to the school. The series is named for Don Ogilvie, a member of the Charter Class of 1978 who is remembered for helping to establish Yale’s Black Studies Department and Afro-American Cultural Center as an undergraduate and for his leadership in SOM’s pioneering first cohort. We asked Ogilvie’s friends to help us look back at his accomplishments and remember his unique spirit.
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” […]
Four lots at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport business park are getting a lot of attention airport commissioners learned at a meeting Thursday. The airport released requests for proposals (RFPs) on four lots in their business park area for 20-year leases. The leases can be extended for 20 year. The properties are located at 3 and […]
An increase in jet fuel prices was revealed during the Martha’s Vineyard Airport commission meeting. “I understand that a truckload of fuel, this is jet fuel, coming in now, which used to cost $25,000 is now crossing $37,000,” commission treasurer Robert Knabel said. So far, fuel sales have been steady. Additionally, the airport’s jet fuel […]
Wednesday night Dukes County commissioners heard a positive report from airport commission chair Bob Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum said the fiscal health of the airport is good and the relationship with tenants and the county is healthy. However, he warned the wastewater plant that serves the business park was due for an expensive remodeling job. The airport […]
The Dukes County commission reappointed Bob Rosenbaum to the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission in a 4-3 vote Wednesday afternoon, following a letter from the state Ethics Commission saying Rosenbaum’s purchase of an airport hangar did not qualify as a conflict of interest for reappointment. Rosenbaum resigned from the airport commission last week after he purchased […]
Bob Rosenbaum, chair of the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Commission, has resigned effective immediately. At the commission’s meeting Thursday afternoon, Rosenbaum cited an ethics commission ruling after he purchased a hangar at the airport. He purchased the hangar after one he had been renting for years was being sold. “I couldn’t find another hangar to rent, […]