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Lost Grant: Tisbury Finds That Urbanity Can Be Costly

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Tisbury Finds that Urbanity Can Be Costly

By RACHEL NAVA ROHR

Normally, it would not surprise people to learn that the Tisbury School is no longer considered "rural" enough to qualify for a federal grant called the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP).

But given that 2004 was the first year that the Island's most densely populated towns - Tisbury, Oak Bluffs and Edgartown - were awarded the REAP grant, and Tisbury alone was the only school district to lose the grant last fall, the loss has raised some eyebrows.

 

 

 

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Energy Zone Raises Doubts

Feasibility of Proposed Area Close to Tuckernuck May Be Years Away; Need Grows for Clean Energy

By IAN FEIN

Selectmen across the Island this spring hailed a proposal to designate an area southeast of Chappaquiddick as a renewable energy zone, where they would promote offshore projects to supply the Vineyard and Nantucket with clean electric power.

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Lost Grant: Tisbury Finds That Urbanity Can Be Costly

Rachel Nave Rohr

Tisbury Finds that Urbanity Can Be Costly

By RACHEL NAVA ROHR

Normally, it would not surprise people to learn that the Tisbury School is no longer considered "rural" enough to qualify for a federal grant called the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP).

But given that 2004 was the first year that the Island's most densely populated towns - Tisbury, Oak Bluffs and Edgartown - were awarded the REAP grant, and Tisbury alone was the only school district to lose the grant last fall, the loss has raised some eyebrows.

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