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Studying Overseas
Audrey F. Furlong is participating in St. Lawrence University’s International Study Program for the spring 2008 semester.
Furlong graduated from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. She is studying in the International Student Exchange Program at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
St. Lawrence is a coeducational liberal arts and sciences institution of 2,000 students in Canton, N.Y.
Backlash to Vision Appraisal Technology’s 2008 real estate revaluation in West Tisbury continued this week, drawing sympathetic comments from public officials, including selectmen.
The drumbeat of criticism, largely provided by resident Joan Ames in recent weeks, drew comments from town finance committee chairman Richard Knabel and a promise by selectman chairman Glenn Hearn to reach out to town assessors to discuss the process.
Daylight Saving Time arrives at 2 a.m. Sunday. Remember to turn your clocks, and your computers, ahead one hour. In more signs of spring, woodcocks have been spotted in Edgartown.
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Frank, Peter and Heidi Dunkl produce Chilmark Spring Water, the Island’s own bottled water. But this winter, the siblings’ attention went beyond water.
They’ve been working on one of the Island’s most revered 19th century buildings, the old bandstand at Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs. From their plant at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport Business Park, they’ve worked on five new oak replacement posts.
The new posts are critical pieces for the troubled 19th-century building.
Town officials gathered Wednesday to review plans for the repair and reinforcement of part of the old pay beach, in hopes of preventing a large portion of town waterfront from literally falling into the ocean — perhaps taking sidewalk and state highway along with it.
At a special town meeting Monday night, Chilmark voters approved a $500,000 purchase of two lots for the Middle Line Road affordable housing project, further voting to shift the entrance to Middle Line Road.
The town will construct roadway over the lots to create an improved sight line at the junction of Middle Line and Tabor House roads.
The move addresses concerns of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission and the town planning board that the current turn-in to Tabor House Road poses a safety risk in the face of development plans.