Government
The Edgartown cemetery commission is awaiting a recommendation from the town’s labor counsel on disciplinary action against cemetery superintendent Jennifer Morgan, following a two and a half-hour hearing Tuesday.
Oak Bluffs has reached an agreement with an Eastville homeowner who had sued the town over an aquaculture venture near his home.
Faced with a large deficit in school funding in West Tisbury, up-Island school committee members agreed to cut $166,000 from the district budget at a somber meeting Monday. The committee meets again Thursday.
Each of the five traditional public school districts on the Vineyard does its own thing, right down to the toilet paper, schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss said in the first of five forums on the state of the schools.
Oak Bluffs voters backed the construction of a new school administration building in a single-issue town meeting Thursday evening. The nearly unanimous vote came as a small political victory for the superintendent, but had no legal significance.
More than two weeks after concluding business at annual town meeting, Oak Bluffs will hold a special town meeting Thursday.
