Ralph Packer News Today

To the Editor: An especially grateful trio of elderly recipients of free Christmas meals sponsored by our M.V. Community Services and volunteers led to amazing unexpected connections and coincidences. The MV Times advert offering such dinners to us living-alone oldsters prompted me to inquire re: my own eligibility and that of my aide. The woman […]

To the Editor: Consideration of this most recent prediction as expressed in last week’s MV Times, of the Montessori school’s fifty percent anticipated enrollment increase, needs to consider also the traffic circulation implications to and from Main st. onto or off, Tashmoo Ave. here in Vineyard Haven. As the unfortunate primary abutter in my circa […]

The treasured schooner Shenandoah left Vineyard Haven Harbor Monday morning for a Fairhaven shipyard, where it will remain for about two weeks as it undergoes biannual, routine maintenance and U.S. Coast Guard inspection. The Shenandoah, one of the only topsail schooners in the world that operates without an engine for propulsion, had to be hauled […]

Ralph Packer sold a portion of 190 Beach Road, where the Tisbury Marine Terminal is located, to Vineyard Wind 1 for $4,006,391.22 The terminal is where Vineyard Wind 1’s headquarters on Martha’s Vineyard is planned to be located. The deed filed on Thursday, Jan. 5, with the Dukes County Registry of Deeds states the offshore […]

Ralph Packer, Dorothy Packer, and R.M. Packer Co. are defendants in a Dukes County Superior Court lawsuit that alleges real estate was transferred to avoid costs associated with the outcome of a federal lawsuit and to avoid EPA fines. Also named in the suit are the Packer’s grandchildren, Vineyard Wind, and Tisbury Marine.  In order […]

Despite casting a wide net for maritime haulers to establish an off-Cape to Martha’s Vineyard freight route, the Steamship Authority has been unable to bring any prospect aboard. Sought in large part to ameliorate the volume of heavy vehicles transiting through Woods Hole en route to the Vineyard, the alternate freight route idea has been […]

Vineyard Wind, the offshore wind developer poised to build America’s first industrial scale offshore wind farm, will hold a job fair at the Oak Bluffs library on April 28 from 6 to 8 pm (doors open at 5 pm).  Eric Peckar, general manager of Vineyard Power, Vineyard Wind’s on-Island partner, told the Chilmark select board […]

A Vineyard Wind operations and maintenance facility previously planned for Packer family land on the Lagoon Pond side of Beach Road is now being planned for a portion of the old Hinckley Hardware site.  Developer Sam Dunn told The Times he is both selling land and providing architectural services for the project, which is formally […]

The coastal freighter Equuleus, which belongs to Ralph Packer, was found slowly drifting on the waters of Lake Tashmoo on Monday afternoon.  “It looks like it dragged its moorings,” Tisbury harbormaster John Crocker said, although he was not certain when or how it happened.  Crocker said the freighter is owned by Ralph Packer, who confirmed […]

The 42-foot, 18-ton schooner Tangier was rescued on Tuesday morning. Carlton Sprague, the owner of Tangier, previously told the Times that strong winds from the blizzard ”pulled the cleat right out of the boat” causing it to drift and eventually run aground.  Sprague received help from a group of volunteers to free the vessel. Sprague […]