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An overflow turnout of of West Tisbury voters completed a marathon annual town meeting Tuesday night that saw decisions on everything from dredging the Mill Pond to dogs on Lambert’s Cove Beach to paving town roads.
It was a night for debate and at times compromise.
The Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network has extended the application deadline for a small business grant till Friday, April 13. The $2,500 grant will be awarded to a local small business person (man or woman) based on the Vineyard who plans to improve, grow or start a new business. The applicant’s project or program should promote economic development on the Island, in keeping with the mission of the Women’s Network.
Edgartown voters easily approved $4.9 million in funding for a new town library during a lengthy annual town meeting Tuesday night.
With a gathering of 305 voters at the Old Whaling Church, town meeting members approved most of the items on the 63-article annual town meeting warrant and a 12-article special town meeting warrant.
A town operating budget of $28.3 million was approved, as was a $272,000 Massachusetts Estuaries Project study for Poucha Pond, Cape Pogue Pond, Katama Bay and Oyster Pond.
There were a few fits and starts along the way, but Oak Bluffs voters moved with speed — and even a bit of humor — to overwhelmingly pass a $24.1 million operating budget for the coming fiscal year at back-to-back special and annual town meetings Tuesday night.
Tisbury voters defeated the controversial $3 million connector road at their annual town meeting Tuesday night.
A total of 221 voters turned out for the meeting at the Tisbury School gymnasium, completing just half the 33-article warrant before recessing at 10 p.m. for a second evening. The meeting reconvenes at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
As expected, the connector road plan between Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road and State Road attracted the most debate.
Super Tuesday, the politically action-packed day when four of the six Island towns hold town meetings, is upon us. Edgartown voters will gather Tuesday, April 10 at 7 p.m. in the Old Whaling Church for special and annual town meetings. West Tisbury voters will gather at 7 p.m. in the West Tisbury Elementary School. Tisbury will hold both an annual and special town meeting at 7 p.m. in the Tisbury School gymnasium. And Oak Bluffs will hold a special and annual town meeting at 7 p.m. in the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School performing arts center.