A shade tree on North Water Street remains standing despite the owners' wish to remove it.
Carol and Ted Fligor left the last Edgartown selectmen's meeting disappointed at town officials' denial of their request to cut down a 20-foot tall zelkova tree on their North Water Street retail property. "I just feel that we should be able to take it down," Carol Fligor told selectmen at the meeting Feb. 19. But town tree warden Stuart Fuller said he would have trouble recommending the tree's removal. "I would view it as an asset to the property," Fuller said. The tree warden's view is not shared by the Fligors, who say the tree "It totally blocks the window," Fligor said. An art gallery is renting the retail space this year, she told selectmen Arthur Smadbeck and Margaret Serpa. Pruning recommended Fuller told selectmen that the first …
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Edgartown is about to issue a request for proposals to purchase the long-vacant North Water Street property, formerly part of an inn. What would you like to see there? Share your visions in our comments section.
Edgartown's white elephant, the long-vacant Captain Warren House, will soon be up for sale again, with no minimum listing price and a June 1 deadline for offers. Purchased by town taxpayers in 2004 for $3.5 million, the three-story structure built in 1850 proved to be inadequate for its intended purpose as a new home for the Edgartown Public Library next door. The increasingly decrepit Warren House, last used as an annex for the long-closed Daggett House Inn, received no bids the last time the town offered it for sale. In a "market value opinion" report from January, 2012, Ronald Mechur of Land Planners, Appraisals & Consultants in Oak Bluffs writes that the Warren House and the 13,262-square-foot on which it sits could be sold in various …
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Louisa Hufstader
10:01 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Historically, this has been a business area as well: The Daggett House building across across the street was a tavern in the 1600s, a store in the 1700s, and a sailor's boarding house before it became a private home in the 1800s, then an inn for much of the 20th century; only in recent years has it become a private home again. The Warren House was an annex for the Daggett House; the owners' son … more ›