A special town meeting in West Tisbury Tuesday night pitted the town’s humans against its dogs, as voters took up the divisive question of whether to continue to allow canines at Lambert’s Cove Beach in the summer.
“I don’t even go there anymore because the smell is so overpowering,” said Karen Overtoom. “I guess you have to decide whether the beach is for the people or the dogs.”
Off-season ferry service between New Bedford and Martha’s Vineyard will be curtailed even further after Steamship Authority governors voted this week to allow the high-speed passenger ferry SeaStreak to drop April from its schedule.
SeaStreak will suspend service between Dec. 1 and April 30, 2012.
“This is a month longer than this past year,” said Steamship Authority general manager Wayne Lamson at the meeting in Woods Hole on Tuesday.
Hoping to put their financial problems behind them once and for all, Oak Bluffs voters agreed at a special town meeting Tuesday night to cut $303,561 from the fiscal year 2012 budget.
“We are at a crossroads and this is the night that decisions are made,” said interim town administrator Robert Whritenhour, who drew applause following a detailed 40-minute presentation on the town budget.
By PETER BRANNEN
The dog days of summer may be over at Lambert’s Cove Beach and Uncle Seth’s Pond after West Tisbury voters have their say at next week’s special town meeting.
After more than two years without primary care on the Island, a group of Vineyard veterans blasted the Veterans Administration and Partners Healthcare yesterday for failing to restore medical services that had been available on the Island for years. The veterans met with a team of national representatives from the American Legion in the hope that they will bring their message back to Capitol Hill.
On Wednesday morning Dukes County veterans agent Jo Ann Murphy took a phone call from a World War II veteran to thank her for an unusual errand. Ms. Murphy had delivered him bread-and-butter pickles, his favorite, more than six months ago.
