Remy Tumin
Aquinnah selectmen this week inched closer to a final contract with Vineyard Power to install a solar array at the landfill, but pressed for clearer contingency plans from the community energy cooperative in the event of a problem.
Dukes County manager Russell Smith announced on Wednesday that he will resign.
Calling it a mutual agreement with the county commission, Mr. Smith said his resignation will take effect May 1 when his current contract runs out.
He has held the job since April 2008.
After nearly an hour of contentious and sometimes emotional debate, West Tisbury selectmen voted Wednesday to banish two dogs from the Island that killed more than a dozen chickens and geese in the past several months.
The selectmen decided against euthanizing the Akitas and will instead craft an agreement that will keep the dogs permanently off the Vineyard. The vote was two to one with selectman and chairman of the board Jeffrey (Skipper) Manter 3rd casting the dissenting vote.
The community group working to conserve Thimble Farm as perpetual farmland was granted a reprieve this week when the owner of the land renewed a one-year lease with current tenant Whippoorwill Farm.
Land owner Eric Grubman said yesterday the deal with Whippoorwill Farm owner Andrew Woodruff was a placeholder to ensure the land stayed active while organizers behind the Vineyard Farm Project, the coalition of farmers and conservationists seeking to preserve the land, crafted a plan.
As a licensed mental health professional specializing in children, Jeanine Fitzgerald has seen her fair share of acting out in her 34 years of child behavior studies, everything from the “duck lips” stubborn pout to the “duck and cover” because that’s what’s required to avoid injury.
But one thing has remained true throughout her tenure, eight years of which she’s spent with Island families — her goal is to empower people.
At least three Island towns will likely be asking voters in the spring what they think about the controversial roundabout, even as town officials said this week not even a lawsuit could stop the project if the state decides to go ahead with it.
Oak Bluffs this week joined the towns of Edgartown and West Tisbury in certifying petitions for a nonbinding referendum about the project on annual election ballots. All three towns would pose the simple question: Should a roundabout be built at the blinker intersection of Edgartown-Vineyard Haven and Barnes Roads?