Letters to the Editor

 

 

 

Letters to the Editor

Letters To The Editor

HASTY DECISION

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The Edgartown selectmen chose to include the question of the town’s membership in the Martha’s Vineyard Commission on the special town meeting warrant on Dec. 14. It was done hastily and without any public hearing or discussion or any meaningful effort to negotiate with the MVC about Edgartown’s share of the cost and the benefits to the town of being a member.

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Letters to the Editor

Letters To The Editor

THE TAX MAN

Editors, Vineyard Gazette:

The front page article in Friday’s paper titled “Tisbury’s Taxes Sharply Higher” may have given the casual reader the impression that Tisbury’s taxes will be sharply higher. In fact, while our 2011 taxes will be higher, the 14.5 per cent increase cited in the article applies to the tax rate, not to our tax bills. In 2011, even if our tax bills were to stay exactly the same as in 2010, our tax rate would be seven per cent higher. How is this possible?

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