Our board member Ewell Hopkins was featured in a profile for Bluedot Living Magazine:
Oak Bluffs resident Ewell Hopkins is known around town for his commitment to the community. First elected to the OB planning board in 2014, he recently served as chair and was part of some of the town’s most critical and sometimes controversial oversight decisions, including whether the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School should install an artificial turf field. The planning board ended up denying a special permit for the installation, citing concerns with water contamination in the town. But the board’s decision was overruled by a land court judge, citing a zoning law that exempts schools, allowing the project to move forward.
Hopkins recently stepped down from his position on the board to focus his attention on another one of his lifelong passions: environmental activism. He’s a board member with the Vineyard Conservation Society as well as with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an organization that supports public employees who want to advocate for environmental accountability in their agencies.