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More details are needed before an affordable housing project for seniors gets the green light in West Tisbury. The West Tisbury planning board voted unanimously to continue the public hearing held on Monday regarding a project on 401 State Road, an affordable housing development aimed to serve those 60 years and older. The proposed project […]

Former Oak Bluffs Fire Chief John Rose has been suspended indefinitely from his current role with the West Tisbury Fire Department following the issuing of a restraining order against him. Rose was set to appear in Edgartown District Court last month for a criminal harassment prevention order hearing but did not show up. The request […]

West Tisbury is considering improvements to the town’s Public Safety Building that could include additional sleeping quarters for personnel. Town treasurer Kathy Logue presented a recommendation from the town’s Capital Improvements Planning Committee to the select board for review on Wednesday; the recommendation is to create a working group to consider improvements, which could include […]

West Tisbury is questioning the state’s plan to deal with the invasive Southern pine beetle, raising concerns about the possibility of heightened fire risk.  Select board raised the concerns during a meeting last week. The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation plans to cut trees down in the West Tisbury portion of Manuel F. Correllus […]

A Bruno’s garbage truck rolled over on Wednesday morning, Feb. 1, in West Tisbury. The accident occurred on Lambert’s Cove Road where it meets Pepperbush Way. Six emergency vehicles were on the scene blocking off a segment of Lambert’s Cove Road. Emergency responders poured sand on the snow-covered road. According to West Tisbury Fire Chief […]

West Tisbury has been identified by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) as a “potentially responsible party” for the release of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), according to town administrator Jennifer Rand. At Wednesday’s West Tisbury select board meeting, Rand said the property at or near 551 Edgartown Road, where the West Tisbury Fire […]

West Tisbury firefighters stopped a small electrical fire Wednesday night at Arrowhead Farm that threatened to become a house fire. Firefighters were called to a house at the farm at around 8:20 pm based on a report of second floor smoke. Caretakers suspected a lit fireplace, West Tisbury Fire Chief Greg Pachico said. Chief Pachico […]

Karen Lothrop, the sole Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) firefighter on-Island to tend to the Manuel Correllus State Forest, has moved on, and Vineyard fire chiefs aren’t happy state officials don’t have a replacement. As has happened in the past, the Vineyard fire chiefs say they have been left to safeguard the forest — […]

A lightning strike damaged a West Tisbury home late Friday evening. West Tisbury Fire Chief Greg Pachico said the roof of a Charles Neck Way home ignited but rain extinguished the fire. Chief Pachico said the lightning strike blew off shingles, damaged woodwork and traveled through interior wiring where it blew an outlet out and […]

Updated A crash on South Road in Chilmark Tuesday left a vehicle teetering on a stone wall in “kind of an amazing way”  and caused a major power outage up-Island. The crash left 2,336 homes without power in Chilmark and into Aquinnah for about an hour. West Tisbury Fire Chief Greg Pachico told The Times […]