Remy Tumin
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.
With little discussion, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee voted on Monday night to certify a $16.6 million operating budget for the coming fiscal year, a .98 per cent increase over last year.
Even with most teachers receiving two per cent contractual salary increases next year, the extra spending will be offset by staff reductions due to retirements and the elimination of the home economics program.
When you walk into the Martha’s Vineyard Family Planning office in Vineyard Haven, a large bowl full of condoms greets you. No one is staring at you to see if you’ll be the first one to take a few, no one is whispering to the person next to them, there are no judging eyes.
It is this safe environment that family planning program director Patty Begley has worked hard to establish over the past 27 years, even if it did garner her the title of Condom Queen amongst her children’s friends.
The Edgartown Library building committee hit yet another bump in the road this week when the town historic district commission said it will not allow the Warren House to be torn down.
The building committee’s latest plan calls for razing the historic colonial-era house and replacing it with a parking lot for the expanded and renovated library at the Carnegie building on North Water street
But after meeting on Tuesday with the historic district commission, that plan, like others before it, now must be scrapped.
On Tuesday night Edgartown voters will decide whether to take the first steps to withdraw from the Martha’s Vineyard Commission, marking the first time in nearly a decade for an Island town to seriously consider withdrawal from the Island’s only regional planning agency.
The article is one of six on a special town meeting warrant. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Old Whaling Church; longtime moderator Philip J. Norton Jr. will preside over the session.
Every day feels like Christmas to Johnny Earle. Perhaps it’s because he was voted America’s number one young entrepreneur by Business Week in 2008, or because what began as a hobby has turned into a million-dollar business, or maybe it’s because he makes money while he’s sleeping, through his online store.
But really, it’s because he gets to do what he loves.