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A plan to convert a former Cape Cod nursing home into a “family transitional shelter” is sparking concerns from residents around whether the facility will be turned over to migrants.

Dennis Planning Board will continue discussing Housing Assistance Corporation's family shelter plan on May 6.

To the Editor: The Field Fund prefers to focus on the benefits and feasibility of grass playing fields, and the work our nonprofit does to support natural playing surfaces on the Island. We wish we had good news to share now, but we don’t.  For more than eight years, a 5-4 majority on the MVRHS […]

Updated In another sign of de-escalation in the ongoing turf field debate, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) committee is pulling back on its plans to build a synthetic turf field. In a 5-3 vote on Monday, the committee voted to withdraw its applications for a demolition permit for the field with the Oak […]

An appeal stalling the construction of a new, artificial turf field at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School is likely coming to a close. The chair of the Oak Bluffs planning board, Ewell Hopkins, says that town leaders do not support the legal challenge, so he will recommend that the board moves to drop it. […]

Welcome to the Third Issue of Sullivan’s Zoning and Development Newsletter- This newsletter is a collaboration between members of our Permitting & Land Use Practice Group...

Oak Bluffs will no longer be funding the controversial turf field appeal, calling into question how the lawsuit will continue. The town’s select board decided in a 3-2 vote to halt funding for the litigation. Board members Emma Green-Beach and Gail Barmakian cast dissenting votes.  Last month, the Oak Bluffs planning board filed an appeal […]

WOBURN - A would-be Four Corners daycare operator on Tuesday night agreed to demolish a house next to a former Cambridge Road church and use that extra space to push

Plans to tear down the bleachers, sports lighting, and scoreboard on the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s varsity athletic field are underway, as school representatives have filed an application for a demolition permit. In the filings, which were submitted to the Oak Bluffs Building Department on Dec. 22, 2023, Island schools’ superintendent Richie Smith says […]

To the Editor: The Oak Bluffs’ Planning Board has decided to appeal the ruling by the Massachusetts Land Court regarding the artificial turf field at the high school. Not only is the planning board’s appeal the correct action to take to remedy the verdict of the Land Court, it is precisely the remedy that Judge […]