The Oak Bluffs Community Preservation Committee on Tuesday unveiled a list of 10 public projects slated to receive funding this year through the Community Preservation Act, which raises funds through a local real estate surcharge and matched by the state. All the community preservation funding needs final approval by voters at the annual town meeting next month.
By JIM HICKEY
West Tisbury selectmen last Wednesday clashed over the town policy regulating access and use of town attorney to answer legal questions.
Moving quickly to fill the potential void created by the loss of the Island’s only animal shelter, the Dukes County Commission voted without dissent on Wednesday to take over the Katharine M. Foote memorial shelter in Edgartown after the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Animals pulls up stakes and leaves the Island May 1.
A trio of enterprising young men appeared before Oak Bluffs selectmen Tuesday with a proposal to reduce summer traffic, raise money for charity and help the environment: bicycle rickshaws to transport people up and down Circuit avenue and other parts of town.
The three men are from Newburyport Pedicab — John Pasquina, 26, Blake Harris, 19, and William Pasquina, 29. Their pedicabs are basically bikes that haul a small sitting area behind them.
In a change of course from previous years, the Dukes County Commission on Wednesday unanimously voted to endorse a bill, now before the state legislature, that would merge the Island sheriff’s department into the state system and place it under control of the Executive Office of Public Safety.
Giving voice to what has long been a source of tension during budget season, Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday held a sometimes lively discussion with the finance and advisory board over their differing views on the budgets of the town police department, elementary school and regional high school.
