Government
Year-round Tisbury homeowners will see their property tax rates reduced by a further six per cent, after the town select board voted Wednesday afternoon to raise the town’s residential exemption.
The Tisbury select board formally approved new language for liquor licenses, removing the longstanding requirement that alcohol must only be served with food.
The Dukes County Commission will move forward with Edgartown’s bid to take over management of Norton Point Beach, beginning contract negotiations with the town.
Chilmark will keep a single tax rate after completing deliberations on the town’s real estate classification at a select board meeting Friday.
The Up-Island Regional School District holds its public hearing on the 2024 operating budget Thursday, with a roughly 5.6 per cent increase over the current fiscal year.
More than four years after the steeple and bell came down from atop Tisbury Town Hall, the 1844 building — a former church — finally has them back again.