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The Tisbury Town hall offices at 51 Spring street will relocate for the day on Friday, June 15 to complete work on a town hall restoration project.
The tax collector will be available Friday at the town hall annex at 66 High Point Lane. The town clerk will be available at the public works office at 115 High Point Lane. The selectmen's office will sell permits at the council on aging at 34 Pine Tree Road.
Town hall offices will reopen at 51 Spring street on Monday.
It begins with a hiss, rises momentarily toward a cathedral organ blast, then fades to an echoing cry — ancient, urgent, soulful and powerful.
Before the end of the month, if all goes well, Vineyarders and visitors alike will hear this wail calling across Vineyard Haven harbor and, at other moments, along the Oak Bluffs shoreline for the first time since the late summer of 1973.
Inside the Polly Hill Arboretum office on Monday afternoon sits Collections and Grounds Manager Tom Clarke with a number of black oak twigs and branches on his desk, one just brought in by arborist John McCarter an hour earlier. With acorns dangling and new foliage sprouting, the twigs are seemingly healthy.
Look closer and each twig has hundreds of miniscule holes; the once smooth, skinny branches are now bumpy and swollen.
Once emerging from these tiny holes were the cynipid gall wasps currently attacking black oak trees up and down the Island.
A year late and still not ready to be occupied, the Tisbury Emergency Services Facility is slowly but surely inching toward completion.
In the wake of overwhelming votes in five Island towns against the controversial roundabout project, a longtime member of the Martha’s Vineyard Commission has called for the regional planning agency to revisit its own position on the plan.
At the end of the MVC meeting last Thursday night, Leonard Jason Jr. announced his intention to request a new vote on the controversial roundabout planned for the blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs, a divisive, much-debated issue on the Vineyard.
Gladys Widdiss of Aquinnah, a longtime Native American leader, noted potter and tribal historian who led the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head for many years, died at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on Wednesday. Although she was 97 and frail, Mrs. Widdiss was alert and active. The day before she died she had gone on a happy outing to the cliffs and Menemsha, and in recent weeks she had enjoyed trips to the Whiting Farm with Lynn Whiting of West Tisbury, a Hospice volunteer who was a frequent visitor, and afternoons of card playing.