Organizers with Beach Road Weekend say that roughly 25,000 guests attended the three-day festival in Vineyard Haven at the end of August.
A press release from Beach Road states that guests came from 48 different states and four countries.
Event organizers say the weekend — which featured bands and musicians such as Mumford & Sons and Leon Bridges — was a success.
“The hardworking municipal staff of Vineyard Haven, together with the Vineyard Arts & Culture Foundation, demonstrated how our Town can unite to create a special event second to none on Martha’s Vineyard, provide a safe, fun, and welcoming environment for those in attendance,” the release states. “This successful and popular community event was realized through the sound planning and management efforts put forward by the Vineyard Arts & Culture Foundation and the Town of Tisbury.”
Beach Road says that this year’s festival raised over $100,000 for Island charities.
The press release also states that remediation work has taken place. Local businesses Teles Landscaping, John Keene Excavation, the Tisbury Public Works Department, and Ian Lacy with Turf Specialist at Tom Irwin Advisors collaborated for the field repairs, according to Beach Road organizers. “Compaction will be remediated via comprehensive sitewide aeration, and appropriate top-dressing soil, sand and composting will be used per plans established by our turf specialist,” the release states. “Hydroseeding will be performed in specialized areas particularly hard hit by the combination of the inclement weather and the thousands of guests enjoying our wonderful Veterans Park.”
Beach Road Weekend organizers also recognized the contribution of Tisbury’s Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Services, Inspectional Services, and the Department of Public Works, which they said “were all integral to this success.”
I took a ride on my bike around the park today.
I have to say that anyone who thinks this
field has been trashed by this concert has not
bothered to take a real look.
Every year it improves.
Just go down and take a look at what they have
done.
Is this reporting or just a rehash of a press release…every quote is from the organizer of the event. Come on MV Times. This is a controversial event, and a lot of people have problems with it. Your coverage is biased and lazy. Quoting a self serving press release is way below the dignity of this fine local paper.
Laurie, The Times has yet to write a balanced news article about the controversial BRW. They write advertisements for it, giving it more space than any other island event, including the Ag Fair. They do the same for the Housing Bank, always failing to cover the other side of the story. They’ve mentioned the negatives in passing but then dismiss the ugly underbelly surrounding these island-damaging events/issues.
Imagine bragging that the off-island hordes, for whom this event caters, came from 48 states and only 4 countries. I’m sure the Times worked hard doing their research to get that little tidbit. This newspaper has become a disgrace. I’m not even mentioning that they allow antisemitism in comments and in “political cartoons” regarding every single Alan Dershowitz article they publish— and there have been a lot. Thank you for your comment. The on-again/off-again comment moderator usually blocks me from commenting, but glad to see yours.
By the way, this newspaper’s disdain for their comment feature is obvious, and a far cry from when Doug Cabral, Nelson Sigelman, and even George Brennan were at the helm, recognizing the importance of giving voice to islanders. The heavy handed censorship, along with avoiding daily, lively participation, make this once interesting and community-engaged feature mostly a bore. People lose interest after days of no one moderating. The excuse that they have no one to do it, or not enough money to pay some one, is old, while there’s money to pay someone to copy Epstein’s “news” releases! Apologies to those commenters who still keep trying and do a good job of it. I appreciate your persistence. I lost patience with trying.
Jackie– I have actually volunteered to help them out
on the moderating. I offered to look at the comments
and weed out the most benign and non controversial
ones for publication. Like the one’s thanking the EMS
for saving the life of someone.
But, so far, no thank you .
You are very nice to offer that, Don. The Times no longer has any interest in providing the community with this feature. The proof is they do it half-way… or less. Although I appreciate that they allow us to state the obvious, this newspaper is actually disrespectful toward the ideals of those who initiated the comment feature in the first place, failing to recognize how difficulties were always worked through with a sincere commitment to the voice of the community. There’s no commitment to much these days– except money makers like BRW, and at the expense of a neighborhood. Can’t see the forest for the trees at the Times.
Does the MVT ever publish anything you agree with?
Do you find the Gazette to me more agreeable, less antisemitic?
The Gazette has published articles in support of BRW.
Newspapers tend to be pro business, the majority of their income comes from businesses.
Have you looked into the cost of running your own advertising free newspaper?
I am sure that offer is well meant . . .
But it is ridiculous on its face.
Given that Mr. Keller is 150% sure that he is right about everything!
It is obivous that the Island wants BRW.
If Tisbury did not not BRW the Selectboard would have been recalled.
Yet you still post.
You remeber when MVT was great?
Why did those people leave?
Laurie, have you actually gone down there. Don’s comment is correct, regardless of what you think about the event or how “controversial” it is. Have you physically gone down and see the field before AND after the event each year?
Richard, did you understand Laurie’s comment? I’m wondering who wants to take credit for writing this “news” article? The byline reads “by The Martha’s Vineyard Times”. Now that’s funny.
Martha’s Vineyard wants BRW.
It’s majority rule.
BRW – 2024.
The OB fireworks are too loud, cancel them.
If only you owned a newspaper, that would funny.
The Vineyard Gazette is pro BRW.
Are they also antisemitic?
The article was written the MVT.
Are you demanding the names of all the people who contributed to the article, the copy boy, the editor, the publisher, the printer, the paper supplier?
Their home addresses and their kids school bus routes.
Is that how you would run your newspaper?
I walked by there a few days ago, and again today. Green grass sprouting from a carefully prepared soil bed, more so today. (Maybe the folks promoting the PFAS turf field at the high school should take a look. Well managed grass playing fields are possible.)
Could the MVRHS horticulture students be of help with beautifying this ?
I’m sure that students are in need of community service hours also?
No, we don’t want it to be beautiful..
We want the end of BRW.
Do any of your comments have a point? I mean really, what do you know about anything?
Jerome,
The bar for drivel comments can’t get much lower, and yet certain contributors continue to outdo themselves, every day, all day long. Again, apologies to commenters of longtime and interesting views, including those I disagree with.
Times,
When someone writes, “are they (The Gazette) also antisemitic?”, as if someone ever said the Times was, that’s untrue, pointless garbage. Why allow the lowering of your own (now senseless) standards on commenting?
Did you want to provide a comment feature under your online stories? When you do it begrudgingly and halfway, it becomes obvious… and half the comments, 9out of 18, are utter blather.
Have you considered limiting how many times a day a person can comment?
The reply button is for allowing a retort to one’s comment. You can’t complain if you don’t like hearing a different point of view. Don’t try and use inflammatory rhetoric to cancel someone’s ability to post in an effort to silence them. You seem to confuse hate speech with speech that you hate. If you’re going to post nonsense be prepared for a nonsensical response.
I took a sabbatical from posting solely based on our tit for tat because I thought George took your side on censoring a reply that I thought was on point and well thought out. So did he but he said he was tired of the back and forth. George is no longer around to protect peoples feelings or invoke his biases as they relate to comments. Don’t complain to the moderator respond with a relevant point of view.
Jacki, my sabbatical was one of the bests things I did and I made a promise to myself that when I come back I won’t post as much as Hess.
Lastly, you do have some very valid points about postings but you have to live up to them as well.
“Have you considered limiting how many times a day a person can comment?”
An excellent idea. Also, a limit on column inches/word count.