Aquinnah Voters Adopt Balanced Budget
By IAN FEIN
It took a month and a good dose of grief, but Aquinnah voters last week completed their annual town meeting and adopted a balanced $2.6 million town budget.
The approval did not come a moment too soon for town officials, who needed to have a budget in place for the start of the 2007 fiscal year only three weeks away.
Caterpillar Invasion Returns for Encore, Stripping Trees, Shrubbery, in Our Hair
By IAN FEIN
They dangle down on silken threads and stick to your shirt or in your hair. They crawl up the sides of homes and infest your trees. You can hear them munching away on leaves, their frass falling to the ground like rain.
Senate Debates Housing Bank
Legislation Laid on Table Twice, but Senate Vote Expected Soon; Robert O'Leary Speaks Out for the Cape and Islands
By IAN FEIN
Special legislation to create a Martha's Vineyard Housing Bank is nearing a vote in the Massachusetts state senate.
Aquinnah Reconvenes Town Meeting
By IAN FEIN
Aquinnah voters this week will pick up where they left off one month ago and reconvene their annual town meeting to try to adopt a balanced town budget.
The original town meeting adjourned early on May 9 when it became clear that a large contingent of voters were unhappy with the budget as presented. This week's meeting, a continuation of the chaotic first installment, will be held on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the old town hall.
Cozy Hearth Project Backers to Appeal
Hotly Debated Owner-Built Home Plan for Watcha Path Area of Edgartown Will Go to State Housing Board
By IAN FEIN
At its first public hearing in May of last year, affordable housing advocates hailed it as a model grassroots effort that would allow working class residents to stay on the Vineyard, while conservationists warned that it would set a dangerous precedent for development density in an environmentally sensitive area.
Supreme Judicial Court Soundly Upholds Town Sewage Plant Practices
By IAN FEIN
In a resounding victory for the town of Edgartown, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that the Edgartown wastewater treatment plant is part of the solution - and not the problem - to water quality pollution in Edgartown Great Pond.