Remy Tumin
With West Tisbury footing the majority of the bill, the up-Island Regional School District committee voted on Monday night to certify an $8.35 million budget for next year, a 2.1 per cent increase over last year.
Discussion centered on the possibility of a new kindergarten-first grade class at the Chilmark School and the resulting 4.53 per cent increase in West Tisbury’s $5.8 million assessment compared with a decrease in assessments for Aquinnah and Chilmark. Even without the additional class, West Tisbury’s assessment would still be up 3.99 per cent.
Back to the drawing board again.
The Edgartown Library building committee voted yesterday to abandon plans for a new North Water street site in favor of demolishing the old Edgartown School and starting anew.
Can you guess the two biggest countries in the Western Hemisphere that were born around the same time, colonized by Europeans, share a history of slavery and indigenous people, and are both democracies? Here’s a hint: the largest community abroad of one of these countries lives here in New England.
Brazil and the United States may have more in common than you thought.
After a heated debate drew passionate pleas from both sides, Edgartown voters said no to leaving the Martha’s Vineyard Commission at a special town meeting Tuesday night, indefinitely postponing an article that would have taken the first steps to withdraw from the regional land use commission.
A total of 305 registered voters packed the Old Whaling Church for the special town meeting led by longtime moderator Philip J. Norton Jr.
Wearing their sashes proudly and standing with their wagons full of cookies, a group of Girl Scouts were waiting with anticipation last Saturday in Edgartown for a Santa sighting.
They watched as dogs in festive wear walked by in the annual Christmas in Edgartown parade, the Vineyard Assembly of God caroled through the streets in Dickensian costumes, and miniature ponies with sleigh bells trotted across town.
And then, he turned the corner.
After seven months on the job, Tri-Town Ambulance chief Robert Bellinger is stepping down. Chilmark police chief Brian Cioffi told the selectmen at their meeting on Tuesday night that Mr. Bellinger will become assistant chief of the up-Island ambulance service and will assist in the search for someone to fill the position.