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Town administrator John Bugbee will step down after nine years on the job, Tisbury selectman and board chairman Tristan Israel announced this week.
Reading from a brief written statement near the end of the selectmen’s meeting Tuesday, Mr. Israel said the selectman had decided it was time for a change.
At least 48 sailboats from all over Southeastern Massachusetts are expected to compete tomorrow in the 35th annual George Moffett Memorial Race just outside the Vineyard Haven harbor. The start of the race is shortly after 11 a.m.
For 35 years this race has been seen as a sailors’ salute to the end of summer.
The start of the race is just off East Chop. Sailboats ranging from 16 to 75 feet in length will move between West Chop and East Chop and then cross into Nantucket Sound. By tradition, the course will be decided on the day of the race.
The Rev. Canon Edward Rodman, John Seeley Stone professor of pastoral theology and urban ministry at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, will lead services this Sunday at Trinity Church in Ocean Park. A well-known advocate for reform of the country’s legal, housing and education systems, the subject of Rev. Rodman’s sermon will be The Road From Charity to Justice.
Judit Totpal and Max Sherman of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Xavier Cole Sherman, born on August 30 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has begun the permitting process to begin building the permanent Lagoon Pond drawbridge.
Melinda Loberg, chairman of the Tisbury and Oak Bluffs drawbridge committee, said this week that the state needs four key permits to begin advertising for bids in the fall as planned. The state expects to receive all the permits by the end of September, she said.
Inside the new Tisbury Emergency Services Facility, hoses are neatly wound, office boxes are half unpacked and three emergency vehicles take cover in the high-ceilinged bay. The building, which was set to be occupied last July, finally is home to the ambulance department, with the fire department soon to follow after final repairs on the asphalt are completed.
Upstairs in the day room, EMT volunteer Ellie Beth sat comfortably on the couch with her computer last Tuesday morning.
“This is a certainly a huge improvement on what we had before,” she said.