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Tom Pachico
On one side, there’s the “together we can change” candidate, and on the other, the “straight talk” express. We’re talking not about Obama and McCain here, but Kristal and Pachico.
Tom Pachico is the one positioned as your straight talk guy. If he sometimes comes across as a little combative, well, at least you know where he stands.
Consider this example, from Wednesday this week, as he talked about the race for selectman.
Two incumbent Oak Bluffs selectmen — Duncan Ross and Ron DiOrio — held off a strong showing by challenger Hans von Steiger yesterday in the annual town elections, as each won a second term on the five-member board.
All three candidate campaigned on a platform of fiscal reform and economic development, a theme which dominated both the special and annual meetings held earlier this week and to be continued in a third night meeting set for Monday at the Oak Bluffs school.
If Tisbury restaurants had begun laying down wines when the question of alcohol sales in the town first came up, they would have a nicely aged cellar by now.
It was September 2005 when the Tisbury Business Association first brought the idea of allowing restaurant sales of beer and wine before town selectmen. Now, close to three years later, after an exhaustive round of meetings, hearings and business and taxpayer surveys, it will finally be voted on this Tuesday.
Stories abound as to how the Island of Martha’s Vineyard got its name.
But there are no volumes which tell the tale of how it got its apostrophe.
Or that said apostrophe is protected by federal decree.
There was a palpable pre-meeting giddiness to Edgartown voters as they filed into the Old Whaling Church to pass a $25 million budget in under three hours Tuesday evening. In this town’s recent past, the thrill of participating in the democratic process at annual town meetings has not been marred by drawn-out floor debates or consecutive nights of warrant reading.
The annual town meeting in Oak Bluffs this week was at times testy and decidedly prolonged — so much so that two nights and seven hours of spirited debate were not nearly enough, forcing the meeting to spill into next week.
After a grueling second night that focused almost entirely on the town budget and finances, voters agreed to adjourn until Monday at 7 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs School.