Affordable housing, Island health care, and the cost of education were a few of the hot spots Tisbury voters endured at their annual town meeting T

Herbert Hancock, 71, Was Chilmark Selectman

Herbert R. Hancock, selectman, lobsterman, builder and artist, died at home Thursday morning, April 26, after a short, brave battle with cancer. He was 71.

Chilmark Casts Its Votes

By KATHERINE WILEY

In a meeting which ended minutes before midnight, Chilmark voters gave the go-ahead to the library renovation and expansion project, increased traffic control in Menemsha, and a slew of zoning bylaw changes.

These decisions took place at the Monday evening annual town meeting where 32 per cent of the town's registered voters - 243 people - filled the Chilmark Community Center to capacity.

Protection for Pond Shorelines

By JULIA WELLS

Amid a proliferation of applications for permanent piers, a new district of critical planning concern (DCPC) has now been proposed for the shorelines of two shellfish-rich ponds in the town of Chilmark.

Last week the Martha's Vineyard Commission voted to nominate the Menemsha and Nashaquitsa Ponds as a DCPC on the Chilmark side.

West Tisbury voters fed up with rising taxes sent a message last week at annual town meeting when they reduced their town's share of the Up-Island Regional School budget by $250,000. That message, though, is about to be stamped return-to-sender.

Site problems, traffic impacts, resentment from two rival business owners and an exceptional program that has sparked a love of tennis in hundreds of Island children - all these were subjects for discussion at a second public hearing last week on the new building proposal by Vineyard Youth Tennis Inc.