Julia Wells
An Infestation of Caterpillars Gobbles Foliage
By JULIA WELLS
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are over - or almost over - and now it's time for a rest.
Summer Camp Cut as Voters Balance Aquinnah Budget
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Faced with the bleak prospect of shutting down the town when the fiscal year runs out six days from now, voters in Aquinnah balanced their annual budget last night by cutting salaries and expense accounts to the bone and eliminating a popular summer camp for children.
Aquinnah Leaders Make Painful Budget Choices After Failure of Override
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Swinging the proverbial budget ax, selectmen and town department heads in Aquinnah took their first whacks yesterday at trying to cut $260,000 from a $2.4 million town budget.
"We're here tonight to try and come up with some cost savings," declared Aquinnah selectman and board chairman Carl Widdiss.
A bare quorum of Chilmark voters agreed without dissent this week to borrow another $200,000 to pay for a mounting list of problems in the physical
Aquinnah Fails to Pass Override; Budget Faces Cutback of Ten Per Cent
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
Voters in Aquinnah dealt a heavy blow to the town selectmen this week, rejecting a $260,000 Proposition 2 1/2 override and sending a tough message about government spending that reverberated around the Island.
The general override failed by three votes in a special town election held Wednesday afternoon.
The final tally was 40-37 against the override.
Boat Line Terminal Plans in New Delay; Questions Include Scope, Funding
By JULIA WELLS
Gazette Senior Writer
The Steamship Authority Oak Bluffs terminal reconstruction project is now in a state of growing disarray, as town leaders struggle to understand the status of the project and boat line managers continue to draw lines in the sand - and withdraw their environmental applications.
The SSA yesterday pulled back its application from the Oak Bluffs conservation commission for the reconstruction project.