Remy Tumin
Funds for replacement of the West Dock and carway at Menemsha, emergency response funds from the July 12 fire, money for the Tea Lane Farm project and a bathroom addition at the Chilmark School will come before Chilmark voters at a special town meeting Monday night.
Ten articles are on the warrant; the meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center. Moderator Everett H. Poole will preside over the special session.
It was a Tivoli Day organizers dreamt about: good food, music, people and even better sales. Circuit avenue was busier than a weekend night in August last Saturday afternoon for the 33rd annual street fair, as the street bustled with Oak Bluffs businesses, food vendors and shoppers seeking end of the season deals.
There’s nothing like a summer evening of baseball. The thwack of the bat hitting the ball, the smell of freshly cut grass wafting over the stands — this is the stuff of American tradition.
Now summer league baseball, long a presence on Cape Cod, may finally come to the Vineyard.
On Monday night, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School district committee voted to grant a one-year license to the Carminucci Sports Group to begin a wooden-bat collegiate franchise team based at the high school’s new ball field.
Vineyard Schools superintendent Dr. James H. Weiss hopes to move his office from its current location in Vineyard Haven to the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School by the year 2014.
As planning continues for the Edgartown Library expansion project, the town is now set to consider the sale of the Warren House, purchased five years ago with an eye toward converting it to a library annex.
A special town meeting article was discussed at Monday’s meeting of the Edgartown selectmen for funds to pay for an appraisal in anticipation of the sale. A second article will allow the town to accept grant money for the library project.
The special town meeting is set for Oct. 28.
An Island motorcyclist was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston last night after he struck another motorcyclist near the entrance to the Airport Mobil Station on Barnes Road in Edgartown, according to Edgartown police.
Peter Valach, 24, of Vineyard Haven, was traveling at a high rate of speed when he hit Ryan Willoughby, 20, also of Vineyard Haven, who was pulled over to the side of the road on his motorcycle. A witness at the scene estimated Mr. Valach’s speed at 120 miles per hour, police said.