Chilmark poet and stonemason John Maloney can understand why some people might wrongly think one job is a metaphor for the other.
"I know, it seems a perfect metaphor - fitting words, fitting stone," he acknowledged. "But that's not really the way it works."
Edgartown Voters to Confront Increases in School Spending
By MIKE SECCOMBE
Edgartown residents will be presented with a proposed operating budget increase of some 5.4 per cent, and ballot questions costing a total of about $3.9 million at the April 10 town meeting.
Total expenditures for the pending fiscal year, however, are projected to increase only $245,000, or 0.8 per cent over the current fiscal year, due to a 30 per cent reduction in requested articles this year.
New health regulations aimed at reducing groundwater contamination will result in many homeowners in Ocean Heights and Arbutus Park paying tens of thousands of dollars for new water and septic systems.
The regulations, finalized this week, will apply to all new developments and will also, over time, require modifications to hundreds of existing homes built on substandard lots.
The Steamship Authority board of governors is expected to declare the Islander surplus and put the vessel up for sale when it meets next week.
The general manager of the boat line, Wayne Lamson, said he would recommend the board invite potential buyers to submit sealed bids, with a view to disposing of the 57-year-old ferry within three or four months.
To those sitting in the booths near the lunch counter during one of the final trips of the ferry Islander, the usual docking announcement over the public address system was utterly indecipherable.
Wah, wah ,wah, it went. It didn't matter; people know the drill.