Some 1,500 lower-income Vineyard residents face the prospect of having to find new health insurance because the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has determined its current insurer is not directing enough patients to its affiliated hospitals in Boston.
Faced with a 37-article warrant including the perennially contentious issue of beer and wine sales, and a raft of potential tax increases totaling almost $1.8 million, Tisbury voters are looking at a marathon town meeting beginning on Tuesday night.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Tisbury School gymnasium; moderator Deborah Medders will preside.
In February, 2006, while traveling from Australia to the United States, one of my children became ill with a chest infection. Upon arrival here, my wife took her to the Martha’s Vineyard hospital.
Some hours and $600 later, they emerged with a prescription for antibiotics.
For a second summer, Main street Vineyard Haven will have a vacant space where Café Moxie used to be, following the latest setback in plans to rebuild the restaurant.
Paul Currier, owner of the building destroyed by fire last July 4, told Tisbury selectmen this week work on the rebuilding would stop until at least September.
Mr. Currier previously had hoped the restaurant would be finished and trading again before the anniversary of the fire.
The state might be constitutionally prohibited from supporting any religion in this country, but that does not mean it can’t support a church, at least if the church is historic and in dire need of repair.
Or so at least runs the logic behind a quartet of proposals to go before the annual town meetings of the four big Island towns this year, which would collectively give about $140,000 in Community Preservation Act grants for the upkeep of churches.
Tisbury voters will be asked to take an important step on the way to addressing the town’s burgeoning problem of unfunded liabilities for its retired workers, at a special town meeting Tuesday night.
A recent report on the problem by Jon Snyder of the town finance and advisory committee estimated the town’s unfunded liability for post-retirement benefits — largely health care — stands at some $19.5 million. Mr. Snyder further estimated the liability for all the Island towns and regional entities at almost $90 million.
