Towns Seek to Chart a Better Course for Regional Trash Disposal Methods
By IAN FEIN
The Vineyard is taking a fresh look at how it handles its trash.
Selectmen from Tisbury and Oak Bluffs on Monday will take up the possibility of hiring the Martha's Vineyard Refuse Disposal and Resource Recovery District to manage their municipal solid waste, which, if it happened, would mark the first time in roughly 15 years that all six towns on the Island are working together under a unified trash disposal system.
Voter Conduct Is Neighborly
Aquinnah Annual Town Meeting Rejects Notion of Shifting Regional School Costs Over to Chilmark
By IAN FEIN
In a magnanimous sign of regional good will, Aquinnah voters at their annual town meeting this week turned down an opportunity to pass on some $74,000 in Up-Island Regional School District costs to their neighbors in Chilmark.
Aquinnah Tackles $2.9 Million Budget
By IAN FEIN
Aquinnah voters will take up a $2.9 million budget and a series of relatively small spending requests at their annual town meeting next week.
Town officials are hoping the evening will proceed more smoothly than last year's meeting, which was postponed for a month because voters were unhappy with the budget as presented.
Notice of Lawsuit Filed on Cape Wind
Town of Barnstable and Citizen Groups Take Formal Steps, Preparing to Sue State Environmental Secretary.
By IAN FEIN
Setting up another potential roadblock for the offshore wind farm proposed in Nantucket Sound, the town of Barnstable and two groups of Cape Cod citizens last week filed notices of intent to sue the state’s top environmental official for his endorsement of the project.
The three separate notices serve as formal appeals of the certificate signed last month by Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles, who found that developers of the Cape Wind project had fulfilled their environmental review requirements on the state level.
Notice of Lawsuit Filed on Cape Wind
Town of Barnstable and Citizen Groups Take Formal Steps, Preparing to Sue State Environmental Secretary.
By IAN FEIN