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In a night of frank discussion Tuesday in Tisbury, selectmen past and present were unafraid of offending more sensitive ears.
“They call it the R-word,” said former Tisbury selectman Denny Wortman. “People don’t even want to mention regionalization.”
In a wide-ranging discussion that touched on all the hot topics—including the Islandwide roundabout referendum—the panel continually returned to the R-word as the most pressing issue of the day.
With voters set to decide this spring whether to allow the sale of beer and wine at West Tisbury restaurants, the town selectmen began work this week on potential new rules and regulations for issuing licenses.
Selectman and board chairman Jeffrey (Skipper) Manter 3rd said at the weekly board meeting Wednesday that the goal was to have a set of draft regulations and present them at a public forum, which has not been scheduled yet.
It is a place for parents to trade concerns about child-rearing while the children play, and a place for high school students who may want to study education down the road to gain valuable early childhood teaching experience.
But with the phasing out of the early childhood education vocational program at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, the Martha’s Vineyard Family Center, with its comfy blue couches and pleasing play spaces for children, will now need to relocate.
Slow Speed Dating
On Friday, March 9, beginning at 7:30 a.m. there will be a social mixer breakfast at an as yet unnamed local restaurant. The idea is the brainchild of Mal Jones and described as a form of slow speed-dating.
The mixer maxes out at four men and women, first to register are in, which includes a free breakfast.
Junior Little League Opens
Martha’s Vineyard Little League is starting a new Junior League for boys and girls ages 13 to 15 years old.
The Junior League is designed to enable players to continue their Little League experience after age 12, and introduce them to playing on a regulation size baseball field.
No weights, no dues, attendance not mandatory, essentially no boundaries at all. That’s the idea behind the Alternative Health Club being created by Corinne de Langavant, also known as Coco the Clown.